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Celebrating 10 Years of NIJ’s Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science (LEADS) Scholars Program - 2024 NIJ Research Conference

September 2024

In 2014, NIJ established the Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science (LEADS) Scholars Program to support research-minded, mid-career sworn law enforcement officers working to integrate research into agency policy and practice. The LEADS Scholars Program helps participants develop independent research and provides support to identify current evidence on priority issues.

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Forensic Biology Research and Development at NIJ

Forensic Biology involves the collection, study, and analysis of biological material on evidence from crime scenes to provide unbiased, scientific reports for a criminal or civil court case to give a better understanding of the crime that occurred. Historically, one of the earliest forensic biologists was Sir Alec Jeffreys in 1985 using DNA fingerprinting or DNA typing to individually identify humans.[1] He targeted variable...

Assessing the Relationship Between Treatment Quality, Matching and Dosage and Juvenile Justice Outcomes Among Youth With Co-Occurring Substance Abuse and Mental Health Disorders

Date Published

2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Human-Centered Approach To Technology To Combat Human Trafficking

Date Published

December 2022

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Crime, Place, and Networks in the Age of the Internet: The Case of Online-Promoted Illicit Massage Businesses

Date Published

March 2020

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

Quantitative Analysis of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ9-THC) in Cannabis Plants Using the Fast Blue BB (FBBB) and 4-aminophenol (4-AP) Colorimetric Tests

Date Published

August 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Capture and Detection of Aerosolized Fentanyl in a Suspended Electrochemical Cell

Date Published

June 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Calibration of Dual Resolution Dual Camera Structured Light Systems

Date Published

November 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

An Assessment of the Performance Limitations of the Integrated Quantifiler™ Trio-HRM Assay: A Forensic Tool Designed to Identify Mixtures at the Quantification Stage

Date Published

June 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Spatial Inequalities Among Urban Probation Populations: Supervision, Safety, and Ecological Considerations

Date Published

August 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Raman Spectroscopy for the Time since Deposition Estimation of a Menstrual Bloodstain

Date Published

May 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

How the Work Being Done on Statistical Fingerprint Models Provides the Basis for a Much Broader and Greater Impact Affecting Many Areas within the Criminal Justice System

Date Published

2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Improving Fire Pattern Analysis Using Non-Invasive Sensor Technologies

15PNIJ-24-GG-03845-RESS

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$630,560

Detecting Fentanyl Use Through Court-Ordered Mandatory Drug Testing

Date Published

September 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ

Detecting Fentanyl Use Through Court-Ordered Mandatory Drug Testing

Date Published

September 26, 2024

Researchers develop a more accurate picture of fentanyl use prevalence among people under court-ordered mandatory drug testing.

Differentiation of Hemp and Marijuana Through Ion Complexation with Copper Phosphine Complexes

15PNIJ-24-GG-03858-RESD

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$216,763

Development of new cocaine hair testing guidelines: investigation of decontamination protocols, damage/adulteration evaluation, and cosmetic treatment impact

15PNIJ-24-GG-03852-SLFO

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$185,870

MOSAIC: Unifying Methods of Sex, Stature, Affinity, & Age for Identification through Computational Standardization

15PNIJ-24-GG-03840-NIJB

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$2,062,069

Effects of insects and soils on the assembly of universal microbial decomposers and prediction of postmortem interval

15PNIJ-24-GG-03839-RESD

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$481,616

Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Evaluate Microscopic Characteristics of Skeletal Trauma

15PNIJ-24-GG-03844-MUMU

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$691,362

Expert Algorithm to Identify Seized Drugs from Tandem Mass Spectra

15PNIJ-24-GG-03856-RESS

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$399,300

Droplet digital PCR: assessing the increased performance for DNA quantification in forensic science

15PNIJ-24-GG-03854-SLFO

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$422,235

Attribution of tire marks via their elemental profile

15PNIJ-24-GG-03849-NIJB

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$299,344

Black Box Evaluation of Hand Detail Image Comparisons

15PNIJ-24-GG-03846-NIJB

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$746,866