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Forensic Workforce Resiliency: Vicarious Trauma & Workplace Stress Webinar Series

Overview Professionals throughout the criminal justice system are exposed to the aftermath of violent crime and its victims. These individuals may include forensic nurses, crime scene investigators, forensic practitioners, medicolegal death investigators, and other professionals in related fields. Research has…

Small Bloodstains on Textiles – What Can They Tell Us?

This webinar originally occurred on September 12, 2018 Duration: 1 hour Overview This webinar will explore the interaction of blood with the multiple structures that occur within a simple textile and how these structures affect small bloodstains. One of the…

2018 IAC&ME Training Symposium

Overview This year, the IAC&ME hosted a combined Basic and Advanced Medicolegal Death Investigation (MDI) course in addition to its general conference program in Las Vegas, Nevada. This year’s program provided another excellent opportunity to learn from some of the…

Conference Proceedings: 2018 Research and Development Symposium

Date April 2018 Overview The 2018 National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Forensic Science Research and Development (R&D) Symposium is intended to promote collaboration and enhance knowledge transfer of NIJ-funded research. The NIJ Forensic Science R&D Program funds both basic or…

Success Story: Establishing a “Microbial Clock” to Improve Time of Death Prediction

National Institute of Justice and Multi-Institute Academic Team Date April 2018 Overview The postmortem interval (PMI) is the time that has elapsed since a person’s death. Determining the PMI at a crime scene may help to recreate the victim’s timeline…

Computerized Reconstruction of Fragmentary Skeletal Remains

Overview In this webinar, we will introduce a newly developed software tool called “Fragmento”. Viewers will be able to learn how to use Fragmento to sort and assemble skeletal fragmentary remains and reconstruct the full bone and biological profile. In…

Forensic Wood Identification

Date April 2018 Overview Trace evidence represents any small-scale material that could be changed or transferred from a person, object, or environment during the commission of a crime; wood examination is one specialty area of this forensic discipline. The purpose…

Success Story: NIST’s Dogs and Sensor Subcommittee Builds on Achievements by SWGDOG

National Institute of Justice and Florida International University Date April 2018 Overview Dog “detector teams” support law enforcement and first responders in a variety of applications ranging from drug and contraband interdiction to locating human remains. Dogs offer a useful…

Aquatic Death and Homicidal Drowning Investigation

Date February 2018 Overview Drowning is one of the leading causes of “accidental death” in the United States, but it is possible that many of these deaths are, in fact, incidents of foul play. It is important that law enforcement…

Success Story: Advancing the Forensic Analysis of Ignitable Liquid Fuel Fires

National Institute of Justice and JENSEN HUGHES Date February 2018 Overview Investigating fires with “liquid fuel” is particularly challenging, as the combustion of building materials often conceals the presence of the fuel. JENSEN HUGHES, led by Dr. Daniel Gottuk, evaluated…

Category: Crime Scene Investigation (page 17)

Category: Crime Scene Investigation (page 17)

Forensic Workforce Resiliency: Vicarious Trauma & Workplace Stress Webinar Series

Small Bloodstains on Textiles – What Can They Tell Us?

2018 IAC&ME Training Symposium

Conference Proceedings: 2018 Research and Development Symposium

Success Story: Establishing a “Microbial Clock” to Improve Time of Death Prediction

Computerized Reconstruction of Fragmentary Skeletal Remains

Forensic Wood Identification

Success Story: NIST’s Dogs and Sensor Subcommittee Builds on Achievements by SWGDOG

Aquatic Death and Homicidal Drowning Investigation

Success Story: Advancing the Forensic Analysis of Ignitable Liquid Fuel Fires

Introduction

Category: Crime Scene Investigation (page 17)