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CSAFE research published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences recently received the distinction of a 2019 Noteworthy Article. “How Cross-Examination on Subjectivity and Bias Affects Jurors’ Evaluations of Forensic Science Evidence,” written by researcher Nicholas Scurich and William Thompson of the University of California, Irvine explores how contextual bias impacts the weight jurors give evidence presented in […]

Over the past decade, statistical thinking has gained ground among forensic practitioners and researchers. Machine learning methods, one such type of thinking, are quickly evolving as useful tools to answer the question of source: is the suspect the source of the evidence found at the crime scene? Machine or statistical learning, as the name suggests, […]

The American Academy of Forensic Sciences held its Annual Scientific Meeting on February 17-22, 2020. CSAFE team members joined 5,000 forensic science colleagues in Anaheim, California for a week full of networking, idea sharing and learning. “CSAFE has a two-fold mission at AAFS. We are highly invested in learning about the state of the art […]