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Conviction of Family Annihilator Christopher Vaughn - Recorded Seminar at the NIJ 2015 Impression, Pattern and Trace Evidence Symposium

Date Published

August 2015

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Technical Assistance, Instructional Material (Programmed), Case Study

Interpreting Forensic DNA Profiling evidence without specifying the number of contributors

Date Published

November 2014

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

More Straightforward Derivation of the LR for a Database Search

Date Published

January 2015

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Communicating Forensic Science

Date Published

May 2015

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

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

Overview of Trace Evidence

Down the Road: Testing Evidence in Sexual Assaults

Date Published

June 2016

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

National Missing and Unidentified Persons System

Closing Date

May 3, 2016

TECHBeat, January 2016

Journal

Techbeat

Date Published

January 2016

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Technical Assistance, Report (Technical), Report (Technical Assistance), Program/Project Description

Developing Improved Means to Collect Digital Evidence Program

Closing Date

April 14, 2016

Trace DNA From Fingernails: Increasing the Success Rate of Widely Collected Forensic Evidence

Date Published

December 2015

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description, Grants and Funding

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

Test Results for Mobile Device Acquisition Tool: Lantern v2.3

Date Published

February 2013

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Test/Measurement

Test Results for Mobile Device Acquisition Tool: Secure View 3v3.8.0

Date Published

February 2013

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Test/Measurement

Test Results for Mobile Device Acquisition Tool: Device Seizure v5.0 build 4582.15907

Date Published

February 2013

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Test/Measurement

Five Things Law Enforcement Executives Can Do To Make a Difference

Date Published

March 2013

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Instructional Material

Wrongful Conviction: What Does Science Tell Us About the Causes?

Date Published

2013

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Issue Overview, Instructional Material

Tracking Movements With Isotopes

Date Published

December 13, 2015

NIJ-supported researchers are using oxygen and strontium isotopes to help law enforcement identify victims.

Fighting Crime With Science

Journal

NIJ Journal

Date Published

November 2015

Agencies

NIJ

Recreational Research: Analyzing 'Designer Drugs' at Miami’s Premier Electronic Music Festival

Date Published

September 30, 2015

How Reliable Are Latent Fingerprint Examiners?

September 2015

Brian Cerchiai discusses a NIJ-supported a study conducted by the Miami-Dade Police Department on the accuracy of fingerprint examiners. The study found that fingerprint examiners make extremely few errors. Even when examiners did not get an independent second opinion about their decisions, they were remarkably accurate. But when decisions were verified by an independent reviewers, examiners had a 0% false positive, or incorrect identification, rate and a 3% false negative, or missed identification, rate.

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Evaluating the effectiveness of liquid chromatography-time of flight-mass spectrometry (LC-TOF-MS) as a replacement screening tool.

2015-DN-BX-K055

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$150,000

Highly efficient sperm cell separation from sexual assault samples for DNA analysis using novel polymer filter technology

2015-DN-BX-K072

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$348,796

Wide-scale, Agentless, and Rapid collection of Digital Evidence from Networks (WARDEN)

2015-IJ-CX-K003

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$276,431

FY15 - Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Indianapolis-Marion County Forensic Services Agency

2015-DN-BX-0059

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$595,727

Automated Derivatization and Identification of Controlled Substances via Total Vaporization Solid Phase Microextraction (TV-SPME) and Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS)

2015-DN-BX-K058

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$190,223