Firearm identification
Vision in Blind Justice: Expert Perception, Judgment, and Visual Cognition in Forensic Pattern Recognition
Success Story: Advancing 3D Virtual Microscopy for Firearm Forensics
Rapid and Effective Identification of Organic and Inorganic Gunshot Residues
Expanding the Scope and Efficiency of 3D Surface Topography Analysis in Firearm Forensics
Virbrational Spectroscopy for the Analysis of Organic Gunshot Residue: Detection, Identification and Characterization
Validation of a Single Instrument, Single Sample Protocol for the Detection of the Inorganicand Organic Constituents of Firearms Discharge Residue
The Viability of Virtual Peer Review and Microscopic Verification Versus Traditional On-site Review
Opening the Black Box of NIBIN
Bill King discusses the operations of the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN), a program through which firearms examiners at state and local crime laboratories compare tool marks on fired bullets or cartridges found at a crime scene to digitized images of ballistic evidence in a nationwide database.
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Backlogs and Their Impact on the Criminal Justice System
Evidence backlogs have been known to be an issue in crime laboratories. A recent study published by NIJ has shown that backlogs of untested evidence are also an issue in law enforcement evidence storage. This panel will discuss the issues and present preliminary findings from a study of the Los Angeles Police Department's and Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's experience with clearing out a large backlog of unanalyzed rape kits.
Impression Evidence: Strengthening the Disciplines of Fingerprints, Firearms, Footwear, and Other Pattern and Impression Sciences Through Research
Forensic examinations involving specific forensic science disciplines are typically dependent upon qualitative analyses and expert interpretation of observed patterns based on a scientific foundation, rather than quantitative results. These disciplines include latent fingerprints, questioned documents, footwear, and other forms of impression and pattern evidence.