Articles Published by NIJ

Researchers identified and described best practices for law enforcement interviewing of trafficking victims, based on the literature.

In response to the National Academy of Sciences’ call for scientific data to support forensic evidence, researchers revised forensic anthropology procedures to include an “error metric” for the measurement of human skeletal remains.

Identifying a car, truck, or other vehicle that has been involved in a hit-and-run accident often depends on examining paint fragments left at the scene by the vehicle.

New York state law requires county medical examiners to report identifying information on remains to NamUs.

Many jurisdictions across the country are looking at the issue of sexual assault evidence that has not been submitted to a crime lab for testing

NIJ funding helped the Boston Police Department solve a rape and murder case almost 50 years after the crime.