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A program of the Global Forensic and Justice Center at Florida International University

Category: Social and Behavioral Sciences

The most consistent finding in forensic science is inconsistency

Posted on December 1, 2023December 1, 2023 By Jeff Teitelbaum

Itiel E. Dror PhD

Journal of Forensic Sciences; 2023

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Alcohol use trends in Dallas County during the COVID-19 pandemic

Posted on November 29, 2023November 29, 2023 By Jeff Teitelbaum

Sara K. Dempsey, Lindsay Glicksberg, Amanda J. Rausch, Heidi Christensen, Brittany K. Casey

Forensic Science International: Reports; 2023

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Scientific Proof and Relations of Law and Medicine

Posted on November 27, 2023November 27, 2023 By Jeff Teitelbaum

Hubert W. Smith

University of Chicago Law Review; 1943

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The interpretation of forensic conclusions by professionals and students: Does experience matter?

Posted on November 20, 2023November 20, 2023 By Jeff Teitelbaum

Elmarije K. van Straalen, Christianne J. de Poot, Marijke Malsch, Henk Elffers

Forensic Science International: Synergy; 2023

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OSAC Lexicon – compendium of forensic science terms and definitions

Posted on November 18, 2023November 18, 2023 By Jeff Teitelbaum

Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science; 2023

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Science, justice, and evidence

Posted on November 17, 2023November 17, 2023 By Jeff Teitelbaum

Jennifer Mnookin

Science; 2023

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Is ‘Forensic Science’ A Misnomer?

Posted on November 8, 2023November 8, 2023 By Jeff Teitelbaum

Jed S. Rakoff

Judicature; Duke Law School; 2023

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Interpretable algorithmic forensics

Posted on November 6, 2023November 8, 2023 By Jeff Teitelbaum

Brandon L. Garrett and Cynthia Rudin

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; 2023

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Enhancing research and collaboration in forensic science: A primer on human subjects’ research protection

Posted on October 30, 2023October 30, 2023 By Jeff Teitelbaum

Michael A. Marciano, Ashley Hall, Ashraf Mozayani, Tracy Cromp, Henry P. Maynard

Forensic Science International: Synergy; 2023

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The Prejudices of Expert Evidence

Posted on October 26, 2023November 8, 2023 By Jeff Teitelbaum

Jason Chin, Hayley Cullen, Beth Clarke

Monash University Law Review; 2023

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Combining reproducibility and repeatability studies with applications in forensic science

Posted on October 25, 2023October 25, 2023 By Jeff Teitelbaum

Hina Arora, Naomi Kaplan-Damary and Hal S. Stern

Law, Probability and Risk; 2023

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The History of Forensic-Science Evidence in Criminal Trials and the Role of Early “Success” in Establishing Its Putative Reliability

Posted on October 24, 2023October 24, 2023 By Jeff Teitelbaum

Carrie Leonetti

St. Mary’s Law Journal; 54(4); 2023

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A Forensic Science Informational Video Can Help Mock Jurors Evaluate Forensic Expert Testimony

Posted on October 23, 2023October 23, 2023 By Jeff Teitelbaum

Devon E. LaBat, Deborah Goldfarb, Jacqueline R. Evans, Nadja Schreiber Compo, Cassidy J. Koolmees, Gerald Laporte, and Kevin Lothridge

Criminal Justice and Behavior; 50(11); 2023

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Handbook for the Forensic Standards Development Commenting Process

Posted on October 19, 2023October 19, 2023 By Jeff Teitelbaum

Tebah Browne, Isabelle Cohn, Sarah Chu

Innocence Project; 61pp; 2023

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Emergency Department Visit Rates for Assault: United States, 2019–2021

Posted on October 18, 2023 By Jeff Teitelbaum

Danielle Davis, M.P.H., and Loredana Santo, M.D., M.P.H.

NCHS Data Brief, No. 481; National Center for Health Statistics; October 2023

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A Roadmap to Improve Research and Technology Transition in Forensic Science

Posted on October 18, 2023October 18, 2023 By Jeff Teitelbaum

Shute, R., Ropero-Miller, J. D., DiEmma, G., Sorrell, C., Maynard, H. P., Miles, C., Grgicak, C., Stoiloff, S., Seashols-Williams, S., Rose, A., & Dix, M.

Forensic Technology Center of Excellence, RTI International; October, 2023

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A scientist’s take on scientific evidence in the courtroom

Posted on October 13, 2023November 8, 2023 By Jeff Teitelbaum

Thomas D. Albright

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; 120(41); 2023

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Cannabis Use Frequency and Cannabis-Related Consequences in High-Risk Young Adults Across Cannabis Legalization

Posted on October 13, 2023 By Becky Carter

Amanda Doggett, PhD; Kyla Belisario, MA; André J. McDonald, PhD; Mark A. Ferro, PhD; James G. Murphy, PhD; James MacKillop, PhD

JAMA Netw Open; 6(9); 2023

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Are Inconclusive Decisions in Forensic Science as Deficient as They Are Said to Be?

Posted on October 13, 2023October 13, 2023 By Becky Carter

Alex Biedermann, Silvia Bozza, Franco Taroni and Joëlle Vuille

Front Psych; 10; 2019

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Juries that don’t understand forensic science can send innocent people to prison − a short training video could help

Posted on October 13, 2023 By Becky Carter

Devon LaBat, Deborah Goldfarb, Jacqueline R. Evans, Nadja Schreiber Compo

The Conversation; September 28, 2023

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Improving juror assessments of forensic testimony and its effects on decision-making and evidence evaluation

Posted on October 13, 2023October 13, 2023 By Becky Carter

Devon E. LaBat, Deborah Goldfarb, Jacqueline R. Evans, Nadja Schreiber Compo, Cassidy J. Koolmees, Gerald LaPorte and Kevin Lothridge

Law Human Behavior; 2023

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Forensic Statistics in the Courtroom

Posted on October 12, 2023October 12, 2023 By Becky Carter

David H. Kaye

Handbook of Forensic Statistics; 27pp; 2020

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An exercise in scientific problem-solving: Illustrating the utility of the principles of the Sydney Declaration

Posted on October 10, 2023October 10, 2023 By Becky Carter

Michelle D. Miranda PhD, Patrick Buzzini PhD, Peter R. De Forest DCrim, Sheila Willis PhD

J Forensic Sci; 68(5); 2023

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Enabling witnesses to actively explore faces and reinstate study- test pose during a lineup increases discriminability

Posted on October 10, 2023October 11, 2023 By Jeff Teitelbaum

Marlene Meyer, Melissa F. Colloff, Tia C. Bennett, Edward Hirata, Amelia Kohl, Laura M. Stevens, Harriet M.J. Smith, Tobias Staudigl, Heather D. Flowe

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; 120(41); 2023

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Forensic remarks regarding 35 cases of complex suicides and 4 cases of complicated suicides investigated at the Institute of Legal Medicine of Brescia during the period 1983–2022

Posted on October 9, 2023 By Jeff Teitelbaum

Bianca Beltrame, Sara Baig, Andrea Verzeletti

Legal Medicine; 65; 2023

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Anthropology, Crime Scene Investigation and Reconstruction, Forensic Pathology and Medicolegal Death Investigation, Social and Behavioral Sciences

Creating infrastructure and incentives to increase quality in forensic science

Posted on September 13, 2023September 22, 2023 By sdargoltz

Brian J. Gestring

Forensic Sci Int Synerg; 7; 2023

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Balancing risks and benefits of cannabis use: umbrella review of meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials and observational studies

Posted on August 31, 2023August 31, 2023 By sdargoltz

Marco Solmi, Marco De Toffol, Jong Yeob Kim, Min Je Choi, Brendon Stubbs, Trevor Thompson, Joseph Firth, Alessandro Miola, Giovanni Croatto, Francesca Baggio, Silvia Michelon, Luca Ballan, Björn Gerdle, Francesco Monaco, Pierluigi Simonato, Paolo Scocco, Valdo Ricca, Giovanni Castellini, Michele Fornaro, Andrea Murru, Eduard Vieta, Paolo Fusar-Poli, Corrado Barbui, John P A Ioannidis, Andrè F Carvalho, Joaquim Radua, Christoph U Correll, Samuele Cortese, Robin M Murray, David Castle, Jae Il Shin, Elena Dragioti

BMJ; 382; 2023

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Likelihood ratio-based probabilistic classifier

Posted on August 22, 2023August 22, 2023 By sdargoltz

Agnieszka Martyna, Anders Nordgaard

Chemometrics Intel Lab Syst; 240; 2023

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Improving Judge & Jury Evaluation of Scientific Evidence

Posted on August 22, 2023August 22, 2023 By sdargoltz

Valerie P. Hans, Michael J. Saks

Daedalus; 147(4); 2018

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Cognitive and Human Factors in Expert Decision Making: Six Fallacies and the Eight Sources of Bias

Posted on August 21, 2023August 21, 2023 By sdargoltz

Itiel E. Dror

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A new uniform framework of source attribution in forensic science

Posted on August 18, 2023August 18, 2023 By sdargoltz

Zhihui Li, Yao Liu, Xiyuan Hu & Guiqiang Wang

Human Soc Sci Commun; 9:260; 2022

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Perceived strength of forensic scientists’ reporting statements about source conclusions

Posted on August 18, 2023August 18, 2023 By sdargoltz

William C Thompson, Rebecca Hofstein Grady, Eric Lai, Hal S Stern

Law Prob Risk; 17(2); 2018

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Identifying risk management challenges in laboratories

Posted on August 17, 2023August 17, 2023 By sdargoltz

Evdoxia Tziakou, Argyro G. Fragkaki, Agapios Ν. Plati

Accred Qual Assur; 28(4); 2023

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Criminology and Crime Science in the Arab World

Posted on August 9, 2023August 9, 2023 By sdargoltz

Khaled S. Al-Rashidi

Asian J Criminol; 2023

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Federal criminal sentencing: race-based disparate impact and differential treatment in judicial districts

Posted on August 8, 2023 By sdargoltz

Chad M. Topaz, Shaoyang Ning, Maria-Veronica Ciocanel & Shawn Bushway

Human Soc Sci Commun; 10:366; 2023

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Crime Scene Investigation and Reconstruction, Criminal Justice System, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Statistics and Data Analysis

Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases

Posted on August 8, 2023August 8, 2023 By sdargoltz

Aileen Oebers and Roland Imhoff

Persp Psych Sci; 2023

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Ensemble learning for score likelihood ratios under the common source problem

Posted on August 4, 2023August 9, 2023 By sdargoltz

Federico Veneri, Danica M. Ommen

Stat Anal Data Mining; 2023

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State v. Matthews: Maryland Fails to Measure Up to its New Expert Testimony Standard

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Thomas Kiley

Maryland LR; 82(4); 2023

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Reducing Gun Violence through Integrated Forensic Evidence Collection, Analysis and Sharing

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Glenn L. Pierce, David Lambert

Northeastern Univ; 2023

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Dating App Facilitated Sexual Assault: A Retrospective Review of Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examination Charts

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Julie L. Valentine, Leslie W. Miles, Kristen Mella Hamblin, and Aubrey Worthen Gibbons

J Interpers Violence; 38(9-10); 2023

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Visual Decision Aids: Improving Laypeople’s Understanding of Forensic Science Evidence

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Gianni Ribeiro, Helena Likwornik, and Jason M. Chin

J Appl Res Memory Cognit; 12(2); 2023

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Likely is not probable. The need for rigorous and common semantics between scientists and lawyers

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Dr. Frank Crispino, Dr. Cyril Muehlethaler, Liv Cadola

Can J Law Just; 2(1); 2020

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Ranking Trust Factors Affecting Risk Perception in Illicit Drug Purchase on the Darknet: A Large-Scale Survey Study in Hungary

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Tibor Kiss & Ákos Szigeti

Eur J Crim Policy Res; 2023

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Management and disclosure of quality issues in forensic science: A survey of current practice in Australia and New Zealand

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Anna L. Heavey, Gavin R. Turbett, Max M. Houck, Simon W. Lewis

Forensic Sci Int Synerg; 7; 2023

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A collection of idioms for modeling activity level evaluations in forensic science

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M. Vink, M.J. Sjerps

Forensic Sc Int Synerg; 6; 2023

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Expanded Criminal Defense Lawyering

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Ronald Wright and Jenny Roberts

Annu Rev Criminol; 6; 2023

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The Law Meets Psychological Expertise: Eight Best Practices to Improve Forensic Psychological Assessment

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Tess M.S. Neal, Kristy A. Martire, Jennifer L. Johan, Elizabeth M. Mathers, and Randy K. Otto

Annu Rev Law Soc Sci; 18; 2022

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A Nationally Representative Examination of the Prevalence, Characteristics, and Consequences of Statutory Rape in the United States

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Gary Sweeten, Matthew Larson

Ariz State Univ; 57pp; 2023

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Forensic Interview Techniques in Child Sexual Abuse Cases: A Scoping Review

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Delfina Fernandes, João P. Gomes, Pedro B. Albuquerque, and Marlene Matos

Trauma Violence Abuse; 2023

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Interactions Between the U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the Alcohol Industry: Evidence From Email Correspondence 2013–2020

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Gemma Mitchell, Ph.D., & Jim McCambridge, Ph.D.

J Stud Alcohol Drugs; 84(1); 2023

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