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Best Practice Recommendation for Mass Fatality Incident Management
Standard for Forensic Autosomal STR DNA Statistical Analyses
Standard for the Documentation and Processing of Shooting Scenes
Best Practice Recommendation for Age Estimation in Forensic Anthropology
Standard for Report Content in Forensic Toxicology
Standard for Education, Training, Continuing Education, and Certification of Forensic...
Standard for a Bloodstain Pattern Analyst’s TrainingProgram
Standard for Collection and Preservation of Document Evidence
Standard for Processing Evidence for the Detection of Friction Ridge Impressions
Assessing vicarious trauma and attitudes toward mental health services for forensic...
Research indicates that forensic science professionals operate under significant pressure, the magnitude of which varies depending on their field, workload, case type, tenure, and the evidentiary significance of their testimony in court. This study conducted a needs analysis of f...
Verification testing in a multi‐laboratory system using ANSI/ASB Standard 020
Protocol verification is a fit‐for‐purpose test of laboratory procedures. We present here verification testing of a DNA mixture interpretation protocol, following ANSI/ASB Standard 020, Standard for Validation Studies of DNA Mixtures, and Development and Verification of a Laborat...
Combining morphological traits and measurements of the skull for osteological sex...
Forensic anthropologists commonly estimate osteological sex using separate morphological and metric analyses, without integrating both data types into a single classification model. Combining data types into one model has the potential to increase sex classification accuracies fo...
Vicarious trauma among forensic psychologists
Mental health professionals who conduct forensic assessments are often exposed to stressors during evaluations of justice‐involved individuals (e.g., graphic descriptions of violence, crime scene photos), yet little research has examined vicarious trauma among forensic mental hea...
Normalizing discussions of mental health in forensic anthropology
Traditionally, forensic anthropologists worked on secured scenes or in academic labs. Today, practitioners are more involved in casework, working alongside forensic pathologists during autopsies, mass disasters, and interviewing relatives. This expanded role brings practitioners ...
Examining the influence of lifestyle variables on the accuracy of skeletal age estimation...
This study investigated links between skeletal age estimation error and lifestyle variables to better elucidate sources of interpersonal variability in the rates of skeletal aging. Skeletal age for 180 individuals from the New Mexico Decedent Image Database was estimated by apply...