Identifying the Scope and Context of Missing and/or Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) in New Mexico and Improving MMIP Data Collection, Analysis, and Reporting
Date Published
June 2025
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
New Mexico
The New Mexico Decedent Image Database
Date Published
August 2025
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Impacts of Sentencing Reforms on Prisons and Crime Rates
Date Published
1990
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Well Kept: Comparing Quality of Confinement in a Public and a Private Prison
Date Published
1991
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Analyzing Patterns of Skeletal Indicators of Developmental Stress Through the Double Lens of Ontogeny and the Life Course Approach in a Contemporary Reference Sample
Date Published
January 2025
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
PRIPARE: Parole and Reduced Incarceration for People thru Access to Re-Entry
15PNIJ-24-GG-05446-NIJB
Open
Funding First Awarded
2024
$400,000
Postmortem CT Scans Supplement and Replace Full Autopsies
Date Published
November 12, 2024
As medical examiner and coroner offices nationwide face a severe shortage of forensic pathologists, New Mexico has pioneered the use of CT scans to reduce autopsy numbers and reduce costs.
Child Trauma: Determining Accidental Injury From Intentional Abuse
Date Published
September 12, 2024
NIJ has funded academic institutions and medical examiners’ offices to research the determination of intentional versus accidental trauma in infants and children.
Ontogenetic Study of the Pelvis Through Examination of Interlandmark Distances and Geometric Morphometric Analyses: Implications for Subadult Sex and Age Estimation
15PNIJ-23-GG-01940-RESS
Open
Funding First Awarded
2023
$111,000
Estimating Age of Death from Subadult Remains, Part 1
June 2023
Series
The long-standing problem of estimating the age and sex of subadult skeletal remains has been significantly "solved" with the advances in understanding the growth and development patterns in the skeletons of young people. Kyra Stull, an anthropologist and forensic researcher at University of Nevada, Reno, and Danielle McLeod-Henning, a physical scientist at NIJ, share more about this research with NIJ writer and host Jim Dawson.
Double-Blind Field Evaluation of the MOLE Programmable Detection System
Date Published
2002
Agencies
NIJ
Investigation of Subadult Dental Age-at-death Estimation using Transition Analysis and Machine Learning Methods
Date Published
December 2021
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Gender-Based Violence and the Latinx Community
September 2022
In this webinar, a panel of experts will share what the field currently knows about gender-based violence in the Latinx community.
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Case Study Guides for Select NMDID Cases
Date Published
December 2022
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored