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Best Practices for the Preparation of Test Impressions from Footwear and Tires
Best Practice Recommendation for Lifting of Footwear and Tire Impressions
Best Practice Recommendation for Photographic Documentation of Footwear and Tire...
Scope of Work for a Footwear/Tire Examiner
Standard for Footwear/Tire Examination Proficiency Testing Program
Best Practice Recommendation for Casting Footwear and Tire Impression Evidence at the...
Forensic Footwear Reliability: Part III—Positive Predictive Value, Error Rates, and Inter...
Over the course of 19 months, West Virginia University collected reports from 70 footwear experts, each performing 12 questioned‐test comparisons, resulting in a dataset that includes more than 1000 examiner attributes (education, training, certification status, etc.), 3500 impre...
Forensic Footwear Reliability: Part II—Range of Conclusions, Accuracy, and Consensus*
Between February 2017 and August 2018, West Virginia University conducted a reliability study to determine expert performance among forensic footwear examiners in the United States. Throughout the study's duration, 70 examiners each performed 12 comparisons and reported a to...
Determining Shoe Length from Partial Shoeprints
The length of a shoe has significant value in reflecting characteristics of the owner, and thereby, it can help in tracking suspects in criminal cases. However, the shoeprints left at a crime scene are often incomplete, resulting in difficulties in assessing shoe length. To find ...
The Impact of Fatigue on Decision‐Making in the Footwear Examination: Evidence from...
To assess the influence of fatigue on decision‐making and performance in footwear examination, questionnaires and eye‐tracking techniques are employed. We ask 23 volunteers to wear shoes of four different outsole patterns and obtained 50 image pairs of questioned and known impres...
Quality of Laypersons' Assessment of Forensically Relevant Stimuli,
The current study examined the potential for cognitive bias in lay examiners' comparisons of footwear impressions within the technical review process while addressing limitations of previous research. Prior research has found inconsistent results regarding the extent to whic...