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Treatment of inconclusives in the AFTE range of conclusions

October 20, 2021 / /
In the past decade, and in response to the recommendations set forth by the National Research Council Committee on Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Sciences Community (2009), scientists have
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Consensus on validation of forensic voice comparison

October 12, 2021 / /
Since the 1960s, there have been calls for forensic voice comparison to be empirically validated under casework conditions. Since around 2000, there have been an increasing number of researchers and
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Commentary on Curley et al. Assessing cognitive bias in forensic decisions: a review and outlook

October 12, 2021 / /
In their recent critical review titled “Assessing Cognitive Bias in Forensic Decisions: A Review and Outlook,” Curley et al. (1) offer a confused and incomplete discussion of “task relevance” in
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Latent print quality in blind proficiency testing: Using quality metrics to examine laboratory performance

September 2, 2021 / /
Calls for blind proficiency testing in forensic science disciplines intensified following the 2009 National Academy of Sciences report and were echoed in the 2016 report by the President’s Council of
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Judges and forensic science education: A national survey

September 2, 2021 / /
In criminal cases, forensic science reports and expert testimony play an increasingly important role in adjudication. More states now follow a federal reliability standard, which calls upon judges to assess
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Using mixture models to examine group difference among jurors: an illustration involving the perceived strength of forensic science evidence

June 28, 2021 / /
The way in which jurors perceive reports of forensic evidence is of critical importance, especially in cases of forensic identification evidence that require examiners to compare items and assess whether
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Battling to a draw: Defense expert rebuttal can neutralize prosecution fingerprint evidence

June 28, 2021 / /
The present study examined whether a defense rebuttal expert can effectively educate jurors on the risk that the prosecution’s fingerprint expert made an error. Using a sample of 1716 jury-eligible
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Recognition of Overlapping Elliptical Objects in a Binary Image

June 28, 2021 / /
Recognition of overlapping objects is required in many applications in the field of computer vision. Examples include cell segmentation, bubble detection and bloodstain pattern analysis. This paper presents a method
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Mt. Everest—we are going to lose many: a survey of fingerprint examiners’ attitudes towards probabilistic reporting

May 18, 2021 / /
Over the past decade, with increasing scientific scrutiny on forensic reporting practices, there have been several efforts to introduce statistical thinking and probabilistic reasoning into forensic practice. These efforts have
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Judges and forensic science education: A national survey

April 8, 2021 / /
In criminal cases, forensic science reports and expert testimony play an increasingly important role in adjudication. More states now follow a federal reliability standard, which calls upon judges to assess
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