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Qualifications of an Expert Witness for Legal Professionals—The Daubert and Frye Standards

Date Published

December 2023

Publication Type

Publication

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NIJ-Sponsored

The Impact of Drugs on Human Decomposition: What Insect, Scavenger, and Microbial Evidence Tells Us

Date Published

January 2023

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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NIJ

Persistence of Touch DNA for Forensic Analysis (Article)

Date Published

June 2023

Series

NIJ Journal

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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NIJ

The Impact of Drugs on Human Decomposition: What Insect, Scavenger, and Microbial Evidence Tells Us

Combining LC/MS/MS Product-ion Scan Technology with GC/MS Analysis to Identify Drugs and Poisons in Postmortem Fluids and Tissues

Date Published

February 2023

Publication Type

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

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NIJ-Sponsored

FBI subaward to NIST project GOJPNIJ24000016 "Comparison of Examiner Conclusions with Score-based Likelihood Ratios for Cartridge Case Evidence

O2309-015-015-012545

Open

Funding First Awarded

2023

$120,000

Comparison of Examiner Conclusions with Score-based Likelihood Ratios for Cartridge Case Evidence

GOJPNIJ24000016

Open

Funding First Awarded

2023

$409,578

FBI subaward to SDSU project 15PNIJ-23-GG-04232-MUMU "Statistical Foundations of Score-Based Methods in Forensic Identification of Source Problems"

O2308-015-015-012164

Open

Funding First Awarded

2023

$59,332

NIJ co-sponsorship of the Center for Advanced Research in Forensic Science (CARFS)

GOJPNIJ23000040

Open

Funding First Awarded

2023

$600,000

NIJ FY24 Graduate Research Fellowship

Closing Date

April 17, 2024

Grants.gov Deadline

April 10, 2024

Application JustGrants Deadline

April 17, 2024

The Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) program provides grants to accredited academic institutions to support outstanding doctoral students whose dissertation research is relevant to criminal or juvenile justice. Applicant academic institutions are eligible to apply only if 1) the student is currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program in the sciences or engineering; 2) the student’s proposed dissertation research has demonstrable relevance to preventing and controlling crime, advancing knowledge...

Cold Cases and Serial Killers (Part Two)

Date Published

December 2023

Publication Type

Issue Overview

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NIJ

A Study of PCR Inhibition Mechanisms Using Real Time PCR

Date Published

2010

Publication Type

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

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NIJ-Sponsored

Incarceration and Desistance: Evidence from a Natural Policy Experiment

Date Published

2022

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

National Assessment of Demand Reduction Efforts, Part II: New Developments in the Primary Prevention of Sex Trafficking, Final Report

Date Published

March 2023

Publication Type

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

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NIJ-Sponsored

Phase II Metabolites of Drugs in Hair: A Potential Solution for Environmental Contamination

Date Published

2023

Publication Type

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

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NIJ-Sponsored

Theory of Invertible and Injective Deep Neural Networks for Likelihood Estimation and Uncertainty Quantification

Date Published

June 2023

Publication Type

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

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NIJ-Sponsored

Development and Evaluation of a Contrastive Learning Framework with Applications to Micromorphometry of Aluminum Powder used in Explosives

Date Published

June 2023

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Detection and Characterization of Subpopulations and the Study of Algorithmic Bias in Forensic Identification of Source Problems

Date Published

June 2023

Publication Type

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

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NIJ-Sponsored

Accounting for Covariates in Forensic Error Rate

Date Published

2023

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Forensic Evidence from Chemical Imaging of Triacylglycerols in Latent Fingerprints

Date Published

2023

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Probabilistic Foundations for the use of the Logistic Regression Bayes Factor in Forensic Source Identification

Date Published

August 2023

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Quadruplex Real-Time qPCR Assay for the Simultaneous Assessment of Total Human DNA, Human Male DNA, DNA Degradation and the Presence of PCR Inhibitors in Forensic Samples: A Diagnostic Tool for STR Typing

Date Published

March 2008

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Vapor Pressure Measurements on Linalool Using a Rapid and Inexpensive Method Suitable for Cannabis-Associated Terpenes

Date Published

October 2023

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Qualitative and Quantitative Assessment of Illumina's Forensic STR and SNP Kits on MiSeq FGx (TM)

Date Published

2017

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Summary), Report (Study/Research), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Comment on "DNA Mixtures Interpretation - A Proof-of-Concept Multi-Software Comparison Highlighting Different Probabilistic Methods' Performances on Challenging Samples" by Alladio et al

Date Published

2019

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored