Implementation and Practice

What’s in a Name? Consistency in Latent Print Examiners’ Naming Conventions and Perceptions of Minutiae Frequency

Fingerprint minutia types influence LPEs’ decision-making processes during analysis and evaluation, with features perceived to be rarer generally given more weight. However, no large-scale studies comparing examiner perceptions of minutiae

Shifting decision thresholds can undermine the probative value and legal utility of forensic pattern-matching evidence

November 17, 2023 / Publication / Forensic Statistics, Implementation and Practice

Forensic pattern analysis requires examiners to compare the patterns of items such as fingerprints or tool marks to assess whether they have a common source. This article uses signal detection

The Contribution of Forensic and Expert Evidence to DNA Exoneration Cases: An Interim Report

July 17, 2023 / Publication, Reports / DNA, Forensic Statistics, Implementation and Practice

This report is from Simon A. Cole, Vanessa Meterko, Sarah Chu, Glinda Cooper, Jessica Weinstock Paredes, Maurice Possley, and Ken Otterbourg (2022), The Contribution of Forensic and Expert Evidence to

CSAFE Project Update & ASCLD FRC Collaboration

July 14, 2023 / Presentation Slides / Digital, Firearms and Toolmarks, Footwear, Forensic Statistics, Handwriting, Implementation and Practice

This presentation highlighted CSAFE’s collaboration with the ASCLD FRC Collaboration Hub.

Understanding forensic decision-making with Item Response Theory: Using a NFI firearms study

July 14, 2023 / Presentation Slides / Forensic Statistics, Implementation and Practice

This presentation is from the Forensic Big Data Colloquium at the Netherlands Forensic Institute, November 2022. Posted with permission of CSAFE.

An Ounce of Prevention: A Simple and Practical Tool for Mitigating Cognitive Bias in Forensic Decisions.

July 12, 2023 / Presentation Slides / Implementation and Practice

Learning Overview: The free information management toolkit described in this presentation will be introduced and attendees will learn to use this toolkit as a training tool and as a practical

Sampling & Non-Response: Implications for inference in black-box studies

July 12, 2023 / Presentation Slides / Forensic Statistics, Implementation and Practice

The following is from University of California Law San Francisco symposium “Forensic identification in criminal courts,” February 2023. Posted with permission of CSAFE.

The Future of Pattern Recognition in Forensic Science

July 12, 2023 / Presentation Slides / Forensic Statistics, Implementation and Practice

This presentation is from World Police Summit 2023, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 7-9, 2023. Posted with permission of CSAFE.

Judging Firearms Evidence

July 12, 2023 / Publication / Firearms and Toolmarks, Implementation and Practice

Firearms violence results in hundreds of thousands of criminal investigations each year. To try to identify a culprit, firearms examiners seek to link fired shell casings or bullets from crime

Shining a Light on Forensic Black-box Studies

July 12, 2023 / Publication / Forensic Statistics, Implementation and Practice

Forensic science plays a critical role in the United States criminal justice system. For decades, many feature-based fields of forensic science, such as firearm and toolmark identification, developed outside the

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