Standards
Criminal Justice Technology Testing and Evaluation Center
The Criminal Justice Technology Testing and Evaluation Center (CJTTEC)[1] uses research-based methodologies to enhance the capabilities of law enforcement, courts, and corrections agencies, and act as an honest broker for the nation’s criminal justice practitioners to provide objective and rigorous testing and evaluation of existing technologies, policies, and practices.
CJTTEC provides five key assets in collaboration with the National Institute of Justice:
- Technology Foraging...
Furthering understanding of forensic units: a detailed examination of Knoxville police department's crime scene unit
The State of Standard Development & Tools for Assessing and Implementing Standards
The Slow but Steady March Towards a More Reliable Forensic Science
Forensic Fire Death Investigation: Investigating the Effects of Body Mass and Decomposition Sequence on Fire Burn Speed and Patterns and the Development of Performance Standards
Secretariat for ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37, Biometrics
Ballistic Resistant Body Armor and the NIJ Mark
The NIJ Compliance Testing Program’s (NIJ CTP) goal is to improve criminal justice practitioners’ confidence about the products they own and about how those products meet applicable requirements and perform as expected. To achieve this goal, the NIJ CTP must evaluate products independently and communicate the evaluation results to practitioners.
Although the NIJ CTP maintains a list of compliant products for practitioners to reference, additional...