This paper presents an overview of the application of design science research to the tactical management of forensic evidence processing. The opening discussion addresses the application of design science techniques to specific socio-technical information systems research in regard to processing forensic evidence. The discussion then presents the current problems faced by those dealing with evi...

The creation of new technologies and their application to forensic science is key to the field's development. Rapid DNA profiling is one such area of research which has grown in response to a desire from enforcement authorities for in-house forensic DNA processing and rapid access to forensic genetic intelligence. However, introducing novel technologies into the forensics market must be careful...

science&justice Volume 42 No.4 (2002) 223 – 224 Page 223 *Corresponding author © The Forensic Science Society 2002

The contemporary media provides a plethora of images of science and scientific practice. These often revolve around forensic technologies and the potential they offer in the investigation of crime. Whereas there are numerous accounts of the perceptions of these technologies and their uses by specific interested parties, from police personnel through to juries, this book is the first of its kind...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION CONTENTS 1.1 Forensic Science Investigations 1.2 Forensic Science Analysis 2 1.3 Inductively Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectrometry 7 1.4 The Aims of This Investigation 8 2 INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA-OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROMETRY 10 2 .l Introduction 2.2 The Inductively Coupled Plasma 2.3 Instrumentation Used in This Study 2.3.1 Radio Frequency Generator 2.3....

The discussion of "error" has gained momentum in forensic science in the wake of the Daubert guidelines and has intensified with the National Academy of Sciences' Report. Error has many different meanings, and too often, forensic practitioners themselves as well as the courts misunderstand scientific error and statistical error rates, often confusing them with practitioner error (or mistakes). ...

The fallibility of forensic science consultation is an ongoing and major justice concern. Prospective peer-reviewed forensic consultation has over 10 years of application in American criminal and civil courts, adapting from the traditional oversight of teaching hospitals, rules of evidence and discovery, conventions of testimony of expert witnesses, and attorneys' overall trial strategy. In sys...

Discerning monozygotic twins, precisely predicting the age of human beings and most importantly interpreting human behavior remains a big challenge in forensic science. Modern advances in the field of epigenetics especially analysis of DNA methylation pattern can certainly help to identify and discriminate various single-source DNA samples such as bodily fluids collected from the crime scene. I...