Probabilistic Reporting in Criminal Cases in the United States: A Baseline Study

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

Published: 2020 | By: Simon Cole

Forensic evidence reporting shows a high degree of adherence to prevailing disciplinary standards.  Probabilistic reporting of forensic results remains rare.  …

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How Can a Forensic Result Be a ‘Decision’? A Critical Analysis of Ongoing Reforms of Forensic Reporting Formats for Federal Examiners

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

Published: 2020 | By: Simon A. Cole

The decade since the publication of the 2009 National Research Council report on forensic science has seen the increasing use …

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Implementation of a Blind Quality Control Program in a Forensic Laboratory

Type: Publication Research Area(s): Implementation and Practice, Latent Print

Published: 2019 | By: Callan Hund

A blind quality control (QC) program was successfully developed and implemented in the Toxicology, Seized Drugs, Firearms, Latent Prints (Processing …

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CSAFE 2020 All Hands Meeting

Type: Webinar Research Area(s): Bloodstain, Digital, Firearms and Toolmarks, Footwear, Forensic Statistics, Handwriting, Implementation and Practice, Latent Print, Training and Education

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The 2020 All Hands Meeting was held May 12 and 13, 2020 and served as the closing to the last …

Error Rates, Likelihood Ratios, and Jury Evaluation of Forensic Evidence

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

Published: 2020 | By: Brandon Garrett

Forensic examiners regularly testify in criminal cases, informing the jurors whether crime scene evidence likely came from a source. In …

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The Costs and Benefits of Forensics

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

Published: 2020 | By: Brandon L. Garrett

Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously wrote that states can be laboratories for experimentation in law and policy. Disappointingly, however, …

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What do forensic analysts consider relevant to their decision making?

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

Published: 2019 | By: Brett O. Gardner

In response to research demonstrating that irrelevant contextual information can bias forensic science analyses, authorities have increasingly urged laboratories to …

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Perceptions and estimates of error rates in forensic science: A survey of forensic analysts

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

Published: 2019 | By: Daniel C. Murrie

Every scientific technique features some error, and legal standards for the admissibility of scientific evidence (e.g., Daubert v. Merrill Dow …

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