Category: Social and Behavioral Sciences

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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Recreational use of nitrous oxide: a growing concern for Europe

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Leon Van Aerts, Joanna de Morais, Michael Evans-Brown, Rita Jorge, Ana Gallegos, Rachel Christie, Thomas Néfau, Gregorio Planchuelo, Roumen Sedefov

EMCDDA; 86pp; 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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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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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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A Systematic Review of Recreational Nitrous Oxide Use: Implications for Policy, Service Delivery and Individuals

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Julaine Allan, Jacqui Cameron and Juliana Bruno

Int J Environ Res Public Health; 19(18); 2022

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Canadian Society of Forensic Science Journal

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Volume 55, Issue 3; 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

Demographic subgroup trends among adolescents in the use of various licit and illicit drugs, 1975–2021

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Johnston, L. D., Miech, R. A., O’Malley, P. M., Bachman, J. G., Schulenberg, J. E. & Patrick, M. E.

Monitoring the Future; Occasional Paper No. 97; 853pp; 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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Years of Life Lost to Unintentional Drug Overdose Rapidly Rising in the Adolescent Population, 2016–2020

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Sarah Perou Hermans, M.D., M.P.H., Jennifer Samiec, M.D., Alexander Golec, M.D., Candice Trimble, B.A., Julie Teater, M.D., and Orman Trent Hall, D.O.

J Adolescent Health; 2022

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How to make better forensic decisions

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Thomas D. Albright

PNAS; 119(38); 2022

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Diversity in forensic sciences: Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) representation in different medicolegal fields in the United States

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An-DiYim, Jessica K. Juarez, Jesse R. Goliath, Isabel S. Melhado

Forensic Sci Int Synerg; 2022

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Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine

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Volume 91; October 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

Forensic Science International

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Volume 339; October 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, 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