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Over my first six months as NIJ Director, I have made it a priority to engage with the criminal justice field at conferences, site visits, and other events. I’ve spoken face to face with police chiefs, forensic scientists, medical examiners, prosecutors, and many others working in criminal justice.
One of the most important things I have heard throughout...
A review of erroneous convictions that involved forensic science can help identify critical lessons for forensic scientists as they perform testing, interpret results, render conclusions, and testify in court.
An NIJ-funded study shows that American Indian and Alaska Native women and men suffer violence at alarmingly high rates.
Many jurisdictions across the country are looking at the issue of sexual assault evidence that has not been submitted to a crime lab for testing
