Cross-Domain Forensic Shoeprint Matching

Type: Publication Research Area(s): Footwear

Published: 2017 | By: Bailey Kong

We investigate the problem of automatically determining what type of shoe left an impression found at a crime scene. This …

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Analyzing User-Event Data Using Score- Based Likelihood Ratios with Marked Point Processes

Type: Publication Research Area(s): Digital

Published: 2017 | By: Christopher Galbraith

In this paper we investigate the application of score-based likelihood ratio techniques to the problem of detecting whether two time-stamped …

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Changed Science Statutes: Can Courts Accommodate Accelerating Forensic Scientific and Technological Change?

Type: Publication Research Area(s): Implementation and Practice

Published: 2017 | By: 2017

In the past several years, the nation’s two most populous states have passed new statutes specifically intended to address the …

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Evaluating Negative Forensic Evidence: When Do jurors Treat Absence of Evidence as Evidence of Absence?

Type: Publication Research Area(s): Implementation and Practice

Published: 2017 | By: William C. Thompson.

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Hydrodynamics of back spatter by blunt bullet gunshot with a link to bloodstain pattern analysis

Type: Publication Research Area(s): Bloodstain

Published: 2017 | By: P.M. Comiskey

A theoretical model describing the blood spatter pattern resulting from a blunt bullet gunshot is proposed. The predictions are compared …

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A Fully Automatic Method for Comparing Cartridge Case Images

Type: Publication Research Area(s): Firearms and Toolmarks

Published: 2017 | By: Xiao Hui Tai

When a gun is fired, it leaves marks on cartridge cases that are thought to be unique to the gun. …

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The Crime Lab in the Age of the Genetic Panopticon

Type: Publication Research Area(s): Implementation and Practice

Published: 2017 | By: Brandon Garrett

Review of Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice by Adam Benforado, Inside the Cell: The Dark Side of Forensic …

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Automatic Matching of Bullet Land Impressions

Type: Publication Research Area(s): Firearms and Toolmarks

Published: 2017 | By: Eric Hare

In 2009, the National Academy of Sciences published a report questioning the scientific validity of many forensic methods including firearm …

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