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Interpol review of forensic management, 2019–2022

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William P. McAndrew, Paul J. Speaker, Max M. Houck

Forensic Sci Int Synerg; 6; 2023

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A systematic review on materials, design, and manufacturing of swabs

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Vedant Vashist, Neil Banthia, Swapnil Kumar, Prajwal Agrawal

Annals 3D Printed Med; 9; 2023

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Beginners Guide to Biometric and Forensic Science Human Subjects Research Protections

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Chapman W, Hicklin A, Taylor M

NIST; 66pp; 2023

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Adventure Legal Medicine: a free online serious game for supplementary use in undergraduate medical education

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Sven Anders, Antonia Steen, Tjark Müller, Waldemar Krause, Annika Sanwald, Tobias Raupach, Benjamin Ondruschka & Oliver Krebs

Int J Legal Med; 2023

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Is Forensic Science Scientific? Crime lab errors and privacy issues raise concerns

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John H Tibbetts

BioScience; 70(5); 2020

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Federal Justice Statistics, 2021

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Mark Motivans, PhD, BJS Statistician

Bureau Justice Stat; , US DOJ; 30pp; December 2022

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On the Commonly-Used Incorrect Visual Representation of Accuracy and Precision

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Shervin Shirmohammadi, Luca Mari, and Dario Petri

IEEE; 24(1); 2021

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A call for more science in forensic science

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Suzanne Bell, Sunita Sah, Thomas D. Albright, S. James Gates Jr., M. Bonner Dentone, Arturo Casadevall

PNAS; 115(18); 2018

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Inconclusives and error rates in forensic science: a signal detection theory approach

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Hal R Arkes, Jonathan J Koehler

Law Prob Risk; 20(3); 2021

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Registered reports in forensic science

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M. M. Houck, J. Chin, H. Swofford,and C. Gibb

R Soc Open Sci; 9; 2022

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Testing for calibration discrepancy of reported likelihood ratios in forensic science

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Jan Hannig, Hari Iyer

J Royal Stat Soc Series A; 185(1); 2022

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Digital Transformation of Cold Case Reviews: The Application of Text Analytics (Part 3 of 3)

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Shute, Rebecca, Brailey Faris, Matthew Mecray, Mikalaa Martin, Ashley Rodriguez, Shannon Krauss, and Patricia Melton

FTCoE; USDOJ; NIJ; Office Invest Forensic Sci; November 2022

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Digital Transformation of Cold Case Reviews: Digitizing Case Files (Part 2 of 3)

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Shute, Rebecca, Brailey Faris, Matthew Mecray, Mikalaa Martin, Ashley Rodriguez, Shannon Krauss, and Patricia Melton

FTCoE; USDOJ; NIJ; Office Invest Forensic Sci; November 2022

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Digital Transformation of Cold Case Reviews: Prevalence, Challenges, and Benefits of Just Resolutions (Part 1 of 3)

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Rodriguez, Ashley, Mikalaa Martin, Rebecca Shute, Brailey Faris, Shannon Krauss, Matthew Mecray, and Patricia Melton

FTCoE; USDOJ; NIJ; Office Invest Forensic Sci; November 2022

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Educating the Jury on Metrology

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Ted Vosk; Gil Sapir

IEEE Instrument Measurement Mag; 24(1); 2021

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Bayes Factors for Forensic Decision Analyses with R

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Silvia Bozza, Franco Taroni, Alex Biedermann

Springer; 196pp; 2022

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Long-term whole blood DNA preservation by cost-efficient cryosilicification

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Liang Zhou, Qi Lei, Jimin Guo, Yuanyuan Gao, Jianjun Shi, Hong Yu, Wenxiang Yin, Jiangfan Cao, Botao Xiao, Jacopo Andreo, Romy Ettlinger, C. Jeffrey Brinker, Stefan Wuttke & Wei Zhu

Nat Commun; 13:6265; 2022

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Swapping Carrots for Sticks: Forensic science provider views of the Forensic Regulator Act 2021

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Emmanuel Nsiah Amoako, Carole McCartney

Sci Just; 62(5); 2022

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The Bayes’ factor: the coherent measure for hypothesis confirmation

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Franco Taroni, Paolo Garbolino, Silvia Bozza, Colin Aitken

Law Prob Risk; 20(1); 2021

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Associations between forensic loci and expression levels of neighboring genes may compromise medical privacy

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Mayra M Bañuelos, Yuómi Jhony A Zavaleta, Alennie Roldan, Rochelle-Jan Reyes, Miguel Guardado, Berenice Chavez Rojas, Thet Nyein, Ana Rodriguez Vega, Maribel Santos, Emilia Huerta-Sanchez, Rori V Rohlfs

PNAS; 119(40); 2022

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The Need for a Research Culture in the Forensic Sciences

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Jennifer L. Mnookin, Simon A. Cole, Itiel E. Dror, Barry A. J. Fisher, Max M. Houck, Keith Inman, David H. Kaye, Jonathan J. Koehler, Glenn Langenburg, D. Michael Risinger, Norah Rudin, Jay Siegel, and David A. Stoney

UCLA Law Rev; 58(725); 2011

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Canadian Society of Forensic Science Journal

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Volume 55, Issue 3; 2022

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Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences

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Volume 54, Issue 6; 2022

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Alcohol, Anthropology, Biometrics, Bloodstain Pattern Analysis, Cannabis and Cannabinoids, Chemistry, Crime Scene Investigation and Reconstruction, Criminal Justice System, Digital and Multimedia Analysis, DNA and Biology, Dogs and Sensors, DREs / Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutors, Education and Training, Entomology, Fingerprints / Friction Ridge, Fire Debris Analysis, Fire Investigation and Explosions, Firearms and Toolmarks, Footwear and Tire, Forensic Pathology and Medicolegal Death Investigation, Genetic Genealogy, Laboratory Operations, Odontology, Photography, Video, and Imaging Technology, Questioned Documents, Seized Drugs/Controlled Substances, Sexual Assault / SANE, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Standards, Statistics and Data Analysis, Tables of Content, Toxicology, Trace Evidence, Veterinary Forensics, Wildlife

Legal Medicine

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Volume 59; November 2022

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Alcohol, Anthropology, Bloodstain Pattern Analysis, Cannabis and Cannabinoids, Chemistry, Crime Scene Investigation and Reconstruction, Criminal Justice System, DREs / Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutors, Fingerprints / Friction Ridge, Fire Investigation and Explosions, Firearms and Toolmarks, Forensic Pathology and Medicolegal Death Investigation, Laboratory Operations, Questioned Documents, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Standards, Statistics and Data Analysis, Tables of Content, Toxicology, Trace Evidence