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Wrongful Convictions and DNA Exonerations: Understanding the Role of Forensic Science

Date Published

September 7, 2017

A review of erroneous convictions that involved forensic science can help identify critical lessons for forensic scientists as they perform testing, interpret results, render conclusions, and testify in court.

NIJ Listening Sessions With Victims and Exonerees of Wrongful Conviction

Date Published

September 7, 2017

FY18 proposal to continue to operative the Justice Technology Information Center (JTIC) under award 2014-IJ-CX-K404.

2014-IJ-CX-K404

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2017

$3,500,000

Identifying the Highest Priority Criminal Justice Technology Needs – Year 5 Continuation

2013-MU-CX-K003

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2017

$1,000,000

Stop Snitching or Keep Talking? Civilian Information Provision to the Baltimore Police

2017-IJ-CX-0011

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2017

$32,000

DeGrade It

2016-R2-CX-0012

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2017

$49,511

Investigating the Effectiveness of the School Security Climate on Student Connectedness and School Performance

2017-CK-BX-0008

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2017

$1,000,000

Engineering a high-fidelity, damage-tolerant polymerase for forensic analysis of damaged DNA samples

2015-R2-CX-0011

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2017

$48,648

The Role of Social Media in the Evolution of Al-Qaeda Inspired Terrorism

Date Published

September 2017

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

A mechanism-based forensic investigation into the postmortem redistribution of morphine

2016-DN-BX-0002

Open

Funding First Awarded

2017

$48,818

A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Interventions to Decrease Cyberbullying Perpetration and Victimization

2017-CK-BX-0009

Open

Funding First Awarded

2017

$498,322

A Point Process Model with Spatiotemporal Covariates for Predicting Crime

2016-R2-CX-0021

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2017

$49,548

Evaluation of the Philadelphia Police School Diversion Program: Long-Term Outcomes and Sustained Impact

2017-JF-FX-0055

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2018

$750,000

A Process Evaluation of the Continuum of Services Model in Virginia's Juvenile Justice System

2017-JF-FX-0062

Past Project Period End Date

Funding First Awarded

2018

$749,995

An Ecological Model of Risk and Protection for Delinquency and Juvenile Justice Involvement Among Maltreated Youth: A Longitudinal Study

2017-JF-FX-0050

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2018

$124,652

The Neuroscience of Evidentiary Rules: The Case of the Present Sense Impression

2017-IJ-CX-0007

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2017

$49,898

A New Analytical Technique to Identify Surface Treatments of a Single Fiber

2017-R2-CX-0007

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2017

$50,000

Capillary Zone Electrophoresis Automated Fraction Collection for the Forensic Analysis of Sexual Assault Evidence

2017-IJ-CX-0003

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2017

$40,780

A Confirmatory Test for Sperm in Sexual Assault Samples using a Microfluidic-Integrated Cell Phone Imaging System

2017-NE-BX-0004

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2017

$369,224

Firearm involvement of parents and their adolescent children: A prospective intergenerational study of high-risk youth

2017-IJ-CX-0019

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2017

$749,976

Understanding Socio-Environmental and Physical Risk Factors Influencing Firearm Violence

2017-IJ-CX-0020

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2017

$749,999

Racial and ethnic differences in non-fatal firearm injuries

2017-IJ-CX-0018

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2017

$693,695

The Healthy Adolescent Relationship Trajectories Study

2017-VA-CX-0030

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2017

$1,052,638

Indicators of Sex Trafficking in Online Escort Ads

2017-MU-CX-0005

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2017

$597,532

A Randomized Evaluation of a Comprehensive, Whole-School Intervention

2017-CK-BX-0015

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2017

$2,993,500