DNA testing

DNA: A Prosecutor's Practice Notebook

Date Published

July 2007

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Training

From the Deputy Director: Supporting the Effort To Exonerate the Wrongfully Convicted

Journal

Police Chief

Date Published

April 2009

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored)

A New Approach to Utilizing Evidence from Sexual Assault Kits in Texas: Benefits and Costs of a Universal Testing Statute

2016-IJ-CX-0019

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$235,794

Evaluation and Implementation of High Throughput Second Generation Sequencing for Mitochondrial DNA Testing in Missing Persons and Forensic Casework at the UNT Center for Human Identification.

2016-DN-BX-K001

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$727,072

Human Organ Tissue Identification by Targeted RNA Deep Sequencing to Aid in the Investigation of Shooting and Other Traumatic Bodily Injury Incidents

2016-DN-BX-0165

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$424,799

Progress on Testing Sexual Assault Kits

September 2016

Members from the Nevada Sexual Assault Kit Backlog Working Group describe the importance of using a multidisciplinary, victim-centered approach in addressing complex issues that arise while responding to sexual assault. The team also describes the importance of utilizing available resources, including research and federal support from the National Institute of Justice, in making progress towards processing untested sexual assault kits.

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Untested Evidence in Sexual Assault Cases

National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence Proceedings Meeting 6: Ritz Carlton Hotel Boston, Massachusetts July 25 & 26, 1999

Date Published

July 1999

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Conference Material

National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence Proceedings Meeting 7: Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center Polaris Conference Room Conference Center, Concourse Level Washington, DC September 26 & 27, 1999

Date Published

September 1999

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Conference Material

New Orleans Sexual Assault Evidence Project: Results and Recommendations

Journal

National Institute of Justice Journal

Date Published

June 2013

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Evaluation

A Sexual Assault Kit Partnership

November 2015

NIJ Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Director Gerald LaPorte and Deputy Director Heather Waltke, along with Heather LaSalle, Forensic Examiner, DNA Casework Unit, and Tina Delgado, Chief, Biometrics Division from the FBI Laboratory discuss why the NIJ-FBI Sexual Assault Kit Partnership was created and how the partnership plans to shed light on the complexities of sexual assault cases, particularly kits that

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