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The Opioid Epidemic: An Update from the Coroner/ME Perspective

This webinar originally occurred on July 24, 2019 Duration: 50 minutes Overview Between 2016 and 2017, overdose deaths increased from 63,632 to 70,237. Of these, 47,600 overdose deaths involved opioids. In 2017, West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and the District…

Medicolegal Death Investigation: Locating and Notifying Next of Kin & Donation 101

This webinar originally occurred on July 23, 2019 Duration: 1.75 hours Overview Locating and notifying the next of kin is an important part of medicolegal death investigation. This presentation provided examples of resources at the scene and online to assist…

Cradle to Cane: Investigation of Crimes Against Vulnerable Victims

This webinar originally occurred on March 21-23, 2017 Duration: 14 hours Overview: In 2017, the National Institute of Justice, Charleston Southern University, the Forensic Technology Center of Excellence, and the Shaken Baby Alliance worked together to create and host “From Cradle to Cane: Investigation of Crimes…

Just RNA and Bloodstains

← Back to Just Science Podcast Original Release Date: May 29, 2019 In episode three of our 2019 NIJ R&D season, Just Science interviews Dr. Robert Allen, professor and head of the Forensic Sciences Department at Oklahoma State University, about…

HHRRC – Building Forensic Capacity Post-Conflict: Lessons from Uganda

← Back to Series This webinar originally occurred on March 28, 2019 Duration: 1.5 hours Overview This presentation introduces research conducted in Uganda at the nexus of forensic science and transitional justice, highlighting a large-scale forensic investigation and human identification…

Emerging Research in Medicolegal Death Investigations

← Back to Series This webinar originally occurred on March 14, 2019 Duration: 1.5 hours Overview Forensic science research and development plays a key role in the advancement of the practice of forensic science, as noted by the 2009 National…

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…

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…

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…

Just Dry Bones

← Back to Just Science Podcast Original Release Date: June 5, 2017 In the seventh episode of Just Science, guest speakers Dr. Melissa Connor, Dr. Eriek Hansen, and Christiane Baigent discuss their NIJ funded research. A study was launched in late 2015…

Category: Scene Investigation (page 6)

Category: Scene Investigation (page 6)

The Opioid Epidemic: An Update from the Coroner/ME Perspective

Medicolegal Death Investigation: Locating and Notifying Next of Kin & Donation 101

Cradle to Cane: Investigation of Crimes Against Vulnerable Victims

Just RNA and Bloodstains

HHRRC – Building Forensic Capacity Post-Conflict: Lessons from Uganda

Emerging Research in Medicolegal Death Investigations

2018 IAC&ME Training Symposium

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

Aquatic Death and Homicidal Drowning Investigation

Just Dry Bones

Introduction

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