The Slow but Steady March Towards a More Reliable Forensic Science
Date Published
December 2022
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Issue Overview
Evidence analysis and processing
DEX: Digital evidence provenance supporting reproducibility and comparison
Journal
Digital Investigation
Date Published
2009
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Effective Digital Forensics Research Is Investigator-Centric
Date Published
December 2022
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Forensic investigation of peer-to-peer file sharing network
Journal
Digital Investigation
Date Published
2010
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Inference-based forensics for extracting information from diverse sources
Date Published
2014
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Thesis/Dissertation,
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Not by the Book: Observations of Delayed Oviposition and Re-Colonization of Human Remains by Blow Flies
Journal
Insects
Date Published
September 2022
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Age-related Skull Fracture Patterns in Infants After Low-height Falls
Journal
Pediatric Research
Date Published
June 2023
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Fast Screening of Gunshot Residue Aims to Modernize Practice
Date Published
November 2022
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
The microbiome of fly organs and fly-human microbial transfer during decomposition
Journal
Forensic Science International
Date Published
November 2022
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
A machine learning approach for missing persons cases with high genotyping errors
Journal
Frontiers in Genetics
Date Published
October 2022
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Convolutional Neural Network Applications in Fire Debris Classification
Journal
Chemosensors
Date Published
September 2022
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Combining artificial neural network classification with fully continuous probabilistic genotyping to remove the need for an analytical threshold and electropherogram reading
Journal
Forensic Science International: Genetics
Date Published
January 2023
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Effects of crime scene contaminants on surface-enhanced Raman analysis of hair
Journal
Journal of Forensic Sciences
Date Published
2022
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Optimized variant calling for estimating kinship
Journal
Forensic Science International: Genetics
Date Published
November 2022
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Targeted S5 RNA sequencing assay for the identification and direct association of common body fluids with DNA donors in mixtures
Journal
International Journal of Legal Medicine
Date Published
2023
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
A genotype likelihood function for DNA mixtures
Journal
Forensic Science International: Genetics
Date Published
September 2022
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Functionalized Aptamers for Detection of Small-Molecule Targets
Date Published
2019
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Thesis/Dissertation
Development of Portable Sample-In-Answer-Out Microfluidic Systems for On-Site Analyte Detection
Date Published
2022
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Thesis/Dissertation
Kinetically Modeling Total Ion Chromatograms and Extracted Ion Profiles to Identify Ignitable Liquids for Fire Debris Applications
Date Published
2020
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Thesis/Dissertation
The number of alleles in DNA mixtures with related contributors
Journal
Forensic Science International: Genetics
Date Published
November 2022
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Body Mass Index (BMI) Impacts Soil Chemical and Microbial Response to Human Decomposition
Journal
mSphere
Date Published
September 2022
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
NIJ Awards Over $11 Million to Support Forensic Science Research and Development in 2022
On September 30, 2022, NIJ announced $11.6 million in funding to support 23 projects under the “NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes” solicitation. Through its research and development grant funding, NIJ continues to advance the speed, accuracy, and reliability of forensic analysis, which ultimately bolsters the...
On the assumption of equal contributions in fingerprinting
Journal
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
Date Published
2008
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Ballistic Imaging
Date Published
2008
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Identifying noncooperative subjects at a distance using face images and inferred three-dimensional face models
Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS
Date Published
January 2009
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)