Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes

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Determining Fracture Timing from Microscopic Characteristics of Cortical Bone

Date Published

2024

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Solving Cases of Sudden Unexpected Natural Death in the Young through Comprehensive Postmortem Genetic Testing

Date Published

2024

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Assessing Screw Length Impact on Bone Strain in Proximal Humerus Fracture Fixation Via Surrogate Modelling

Date Published

August 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Development and Validation of a Method for Analysis of 25 Cannabinoids in Oral Fluid and Exhaled Breath Condensate

Date Published

June 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

The Off-season of Dental Cementum Investigations. A Critical Appraisal of Season-of-death Prediction in Medico-legal Investigations

Date Published

August 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

IS2aR, a Computational Tool to Transform Voxelized Reference Phantoms into Patient-specific Whole-body Virtual CTs for Peripheral Dose Estimation

Date Published

December 2023

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

In Vitro Structure-activity Relationships and Forensic Case Series of Emerging 2-benzylbenzimidazole 'Nitazene' Opioids

Date Published

September 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Superhydrophobic Surface Modification of Polymer Microneedles Enables Fabrication of Multimodal Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry Substrates for Synthetic Drug Detection in Blood Plasma

Date Published

September 2023

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Improving Consistency in Forensic Reporting Through DEA’s GUARDS Comprehensive Methodology

Event Dates

December 5, 2024, 10:00 am – 4:30 pm Eastern

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Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Registration Status

Open

Enhanced Sensitivity and Homogeneity of SERS Signals on Plasmonic Substrate When Coupled to Paper Spray Ionization-Mass Spectrometry

Date Published

September 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Technical note: Measuring Bicondylar Length in Computed Tomography Data

Date Published

October 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

High-throughput LC-PDA Method for Determination of Δ9-THC and Related Cannabinoids in Cannabis Sativa

Date Published

December 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

OpenSense: An Open-World Sensing Framework for Incremental Learning and Dynamic Sensor Scheduling on Embedded Edge Devices

Date Published

2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Quantitative Evaluation of Hemp-Derived Vape Products for Accurate Labeling, Identification of Unknowns, and Stability

GRANT14121774

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$300,000

Guiding Interpretation: Leveraging High-Density SNP Data from Major U.S. Populations for Forensic Genetic Analyses

GRANT14121445

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$990,468

FBI Subaward to the NIST project "Identifying Class and Individual Characteristics of Printer Marks on Additively Manufactured Firearm Components"

GRANT14110035-B

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$130,000

Identifying Class and Individual Characteristics of Printer Marks on Additively Manufactured Firearm Components

DJO-NIJ-25-RO-0001

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$389,657

Electroanalytical Paper-based Sensors for Infield Detection of Chlorate-based Explosives and Quantification of Oxyanions

Date Published

May 2023

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Differential DNA Preservation of Thermally Altered Tissue and Bone

Date Published

2023

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Py_Ped_Sim - A Flexible Forward Genetic Simulator for Complex Family Pedigree Analysis

Date Published

March 2024

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Decreased Accuracy of Forensic DNA Mixture Analysis for Groups with Lower Genetic Diversity

Date Published

September 2023

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

NIJ Awards $14M to Support Forensic Science Research

On September 27, 2024, NIJ announced $13.6 million in new funding to support 24 projects under the “FY24 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes” solicitation. Through this program, NIJ continues to advance the speed, accuracy, and reliability of forensic analysis, which bolsters the administration of justice.

Funding Highlights for Fiscal Year 2024

Since 2009, NIJ has invested over...

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy in Forensic Analysis

Date Published

August 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

A Nondestructive Technique for the Sex Identification of Third Instar Cochliomyia Macellaria Larvae

Date Published

September 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Ethyl Acetate in E-liquids: Implications for Breath Testing

Date Published

July 2024

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored