Medicolegal death investigations
The National Institute of Justice's Role in the Strategy To Combat Heroin and Other Opioids
Date Published
December 2017
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Issue Overview,
Legislation/Policy Description
Long-Term Stability of Synthetic Cathinones in Forensic Toxicology Samples
Date Published
June 2017
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Retrospective Identification of Synthetic Cannabinoids in Forensic Toxicology Casework using Archived High Resolution Mass Spectrometry Data
2017-R2-CX-0021
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$494,695
Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
2016-MU-BX-K007
Past Project Period End Date
Funding First Awarded
2017
$7,455,832
Linking internal organ microbiome and metabolome compositions to cause death in medicolegal investigations
2017-MU-MU-0042
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$532,286
Quantifying the Impact of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors to Improve Juvenile Age Estimation
2017-DN-BX-0144
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$561,528
Chemometric Processing of DART-HRMS-derived Dark Matter for the Identification of New Psychoactive Substances
2017-R2-CX-0020
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$558,282
Biomechanical Characterization of Video Recorded Short Distance Falls In Children
2017-DN-BX-0158
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$599,878
Postmortem Interval Estimation from Bone Marrow Lipids
2017-DN-BX-0146
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$377,535
Investigations on the Cellular and Morphologic Characteristics of Cranial Vault Fracture: Research and Development of a Time Since Fracture Protocol and Database
2017-DN-BX-0166
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$576,060
Understanding the Pathology of Homicidal Pediatric Blunt Neurotrauma through Correlation of Advanced Magnetic Resonance Images with Histopathology
2017-DN-BX-0145
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$598,632
A Dental Anthropological Databank for Use in the Statistical Estimation of Ancestry and Sex in Forensic Anthropology
2017-DN-BX-0143
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$422,514
Seasonal Effects on Carrion Decomposition and Insect Colonization
2017-R2-CX-0004
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$50,000
Improving Estimates of the Postmortem Interval with Metagenomics and Metabolomics
2016-DN-BX-4194
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$684,273
Development of Modern Subadult Standards: Improved Age and Sex Estimation in U.S. Forensic Practice
2015-DN-BX-K409
Open
Funding First Awarded
2017
$404,255
A Comparison of Postmortem and Perimortem Rib Fracture Patterns in Articulated and Disarticulated Ribs
2017-IJ-CX-0006
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$50,000
Microbial Community Succession in Human and Pig Decomposition
2016-DN-BX-0010
Past Project Period End Date
Funding First Awarded
2017
$50,000
Increasing identifications of deceased border crossers: investigating spatial and skeletal attributes of migrant deaths
2017-IJ-CX-0002
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$36,148
Improved Detection of Kratom Alkaloids in Forensic Toxicology
2016-DN-BX-0006
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$49,987
Metabolism and Analysis of Desomorphine
2015-R2-CX-0031
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$48,907
Evaluation of Acute Cell Toxicity of Pyrolytic Products of Synthetic Cannabinoids
2015-R2-CX-0032
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$47,916
A mechanism-based forensic investigation into the postmortem redistribution of morphine
2016-DN-BX-0002
Open
Funding First Awarded
2017
$48,818