Download or read book Evaluation of the Department of Defense Forensic Laboratories written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This evaluation was performed in response to a recommendation contained in the "Report of the Advisory Board on the Investigative Capability of the Department of Defense," January 1995, issued by the Secretary of Defense. Recommendation No. 88 of the study proposed that the Secretary's Board on Investigations determine whether consolidating all DoD forensic support under one integrated laboratory system would result in additional cost efficiencies and enhanced customer support. The evaluation was identified as a project in the Office of the Inspector General Fiscal Year 1997 Annual Plan and was announced April 8, 1997. The on-site evaluation was conducted from July through September 1997. The Army consolidated its forensic laboratories in 1993 and 1996, and the Navy consolidated its laboratories in 1992, resulting in the present arrangement of one Army and two Navy laboratories.

Download or read book Evaluation of the Illinois Department of Law Enforcement Forensic Laboratory System written by Crystal E. Snodgrass and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Review of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Laboratory written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Evaluation of the Policies and Practices for the Utilization of DNA Technology Within the Military Criminal Investigative Organizations written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) testing was first used in a criminal investigation in the mid 1980s. Since that time it has become one of the most high profile investigative tools available and one that is highly effective. DNA testing has helped investigators identify perpetrators of violent crimes and the remains of missing persons or victims of mass disasters, as well as exonerate the innocent. In DoD, the Military Criminal Investigative Organizations (MCIOs)1 are responsible for investigating major crimes within their respective areas of responsibility. MCIO investigative policies and procedures include the processing of crime scenes. The use of DNA analysis of evidence as an investigative tool by the MCIOs has grown considerably in recent years because improved technology has rendered more accurate results. Further, DNA evidence is being used more frequently to convict perpetrators and exonerate suspects. Currently, within the DoD, the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory (USACIL) is the only military forensic laboratory capable of DNA analysis. On December 19, 2000, Congress passed the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 (PL 106-546). The Act authorized Federal assistance to States to enable them to clear their backlogs of DNA samples collected from convicted offenders and crime scenes, provided the resulting DNA profiles are entered into the Combined DNA Index System of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). For DoD, this Act added the requirement to collect, analyze, and index DNA samples from persons convicted of certain offenses under military law. On May 16, 2001, the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (USD (P&R)) issued a memorandum to the Services establishing policy for implementing the Act. The memorandum requires USACIL to analyze all DNA samples collected from Armed Forces members convicted of certaimilitary offenses, and to send the results to the FBI for inclusion in the Na

Download or read book Autopsy of a Crime Lab written by Brandon Garrett and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book exposes the dangerously imperfect forensic evidence that we rely on for criminal convictions. "That's not my fingerprint, your honor," said the defendant, after FBI experts reported a "100-percent identification." The FBI was wrong. It is shocking how often they are. Autopsy of a Crime Lab is the first book to catalog the sources of error and the faulty science behind a range of well-known forensic evidence, from fingerprints and firearms to forensic algorithms. In this devastating forensic takedown, noted legal expert Brandon L. Garrett poses the questions that should be asked in courtrooms every day: Where are the studies that validate the basic premises of widely accepted techniques such as fingerprinting? How can experts testify with 100-percent certainty about a fingerprint, when there is no such thing as a 100 percent match? Where is the quality control at the crime scenes and in the laboratories? Should we so readily adopt powerful new technologies like facial recognition software and rapid DNA machines? And why have judges been so reluctant to consider the weaknesses of so many long-accepted methods? Taking us into the lives of the wrongfully convicted or nearly convicted, into crime labs rocked by scandal, and onto the front lines of promising reform efforts driven by professionals and researchers alike, Autopsy of a Crime Lab illustrates the persistence and perniciousness of shaky science and its well-meaning practitioners.

Download or read book Forensic Laboratory Management written by W. Mark Dale and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New technologies, including DNA and digital databases that can compare known and questioned exemplars, have transformed forensic science and greatly impacted the investigative process. They have also made the work more complicated. Obtaining proper resources to provide quality and timely forensic services is frequently a challenge for forensic managers, who are often promoted from casework duties and must now learn a whole new set of leadership skills. The interdisciplinary and scientific nature of laboratories requires strong leadership ability to manage complex issues, often in adversarial settings. Forensic Laboratory Management: Applying Business Principles provides laboratory managers with business tools that apply the best science to the best evidence in a manner that increases the efficiency and effectiveness of their management decision making. The authors present a performance model with seven recommendations to implement, illustrating how forensic managers can serve as leaders and strategically improve the operation and management in scientific laboratories. Topics include: Key business metrics and cost–benefit analyses Ethical lapses: why they occur, possible motives, and how problems can be prevented Forensic training, education, and institutes ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation implementation The book includes case studies simulating a working laboratory in which readers can apply business tools with actual data reinforcing discussion concepts. Each chapter also includes a brief review of current literature of the best management theories and practice. The downloadable resources supply two mock trial transcripts and associated case files along with PowerPoint® slides from Dr. George Carmody’s workshop on Forensic DNA Statistics and Dr. Doug Lucas’s presentation on ethics.

Download or read book Forensic Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Support for Forensic Science Research written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reliable and valid forensic science analytic techniques are critical to a credible, fair, and evidence-based criminal justice system. There is widespread agreement that the scientific foundation of some currently available forensic science methods needs strengthening and that additional, more efficient techniques are urgently needed. These needs can only be met through sustained research programs explicitly designed to ensure and improve the reliability and validity of current methods and to foster the development and use of new and better techniques. This task is challenging due to the broad nature of the field. Concerns have been raised repeatedly about the ability of the criminal justice system to collect and analyze evidence efficiently and to be fair in its verdicts. Although significant progress has been made in some forensic science disciplines, the forensic science community still faces many challenges. Federal leadership, particularly in regard to research and the scientific validation of forensic science methods, is needed to help meet the pressing issues facing state and local jurisdictions. This report reviews the progress made by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) to advance forensic science research since the 2009 report, Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward and the 2010 report, Strengthening the National Institute of Justice. Support for Forensic Science Research examines the ways in which NIJ develops its forensic science research priorities and communicates those priorities as well as its findings to the scientific and forensic practitioner communities in order to determine the impact of NIJ forensic science research programs and how that impact can be enhanced.

Download or read book Crime Laboratory Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Forensic Fraud written by Brent E. Turvey and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forensic Fraud is the culmination of 12 years of research by author Brent E. Turvey. A practicing forensic scientist since 1996, Turvey has rendered this first of its kind study into the widespread problem of forensic fraud in the United States. It defines the nature and scope of the problem, the cultural attitudes and beliefs of those involved, and establishes clear systemic contributors. Backed up by scrupulous research and hard data, community reforms are proposed and discussed in light of the recently published National Academy of Sciences report on forensic science. An adaptation of Dr. Turvey’s doctoral dissertation, this volume relentlessly cites chapter and verse in support of its conclusions that law enforcement cultural and scientific values are incompatible, and that the problem of forensic fraud is systemic in nature. It begins with an overview of forensic fraud as a sub-type of occupational fraud, it explores the extent of fraud in both law enforcement and scientific employment settings, it establishes and then contrasts the core values of law enforcement and scientific cultures and then it provides a comprehensive review of the scientific literature regarding forensic fraud. The final chapters present data from Dr. Turvey’s original research into more than 100 fraudulent examiners between 2000 and 2010, consideration of significant findings, and a review of proposed reforms to the forensic science community based on what was learned. It closes with a chapter on the numerous crime lab scandals, and closures that occurred between 2010 and 2012 – an update on the deteriorating state of the forensic science community in the United States subsequent to data collection efforts in the present research. Forensic Fraud is intended for use as a professional reference manual by those working in the criminal system who encounter the phenomenon and want to understand its context and origins. It is intended to help forensic scientist and their supervisors to recognize, manage and expel it; to provide policy makers with the necessary understaffing for acknowledging and mitigating it; and to provide agents of the courts with the knowledge, and confidence, to adjudicate it. It is also useful for those at the university level seeking a strong secondary text for courses on forensic science, law and evidence, or miscarriages of justice. First of its kind overview of the cultural instigators of forensic fraud First of its kind research into the nature and impact of forensic fraud, with data (2000-2010) First of its kind typology of forensic fraud, for use in future case examination in research Numerous profiles of forensic fraudsters Review of major crime lab scandals between 2010 and 2012

Download or read book Nuclear Forensics written by Division on Earth and Life Studies and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2010-07-29 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nuclear forensics is important to our national security. Actions, including provision of appropriate funding, are needed now to sustain and improve the nation's nuclear forensics capabilities. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), working with cooperating agencies and national laboratories, should plan and implement a sustainable, effective nuclear forensics program. Nuclear forensics is the examination and evaluation of discovered or seized nuclear materials and devices or, in cases of nuclear explosions or radiological dispersals, of detonation signals and post-detonation debris. Nuclear forensic evidence helps law enforcement and intelligence agencies work toward preventing, mitigating, and attributing a nuclear or radiological incident. This report, requested by DHS, the National Nuclear Security Administration, and the Department of Defense, makes recommendations on how to sustain and improve U.S. nuclear forensics capabilities. The United States has developed a nuclear forensics capability that has been demonstrated in real-world incidents of interdicted materials and in exercises of actions required after a nuclear detonation. The committee, however, has concerns about the program and finds that without strong leadership, careful planning, and additional funds, these capabilities will decline.

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Download or read book A Program Evaluation of the North Dakota Crime Laboratory Division written by Hope Rebecca Olson and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2009-07-29 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scores of talented and dedicated people serve the forensic science community, performing vitally important work. However, they are often constrained by lack of adequate resources, sound policies, and national support. It is clear that change and advancements, both systematic and scientific, are needed in a number of forensic science disciplines to ensure the reliability of work, establish enforceable standards, and promote best practices with consistent application. Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward provides a detailed plan for addressing these needs and suggests the creation of a new government entity, the National Institute of Forensic Science, to establish and enforce standards within the forensic science community. The benefits of improving and regulating the forensic science disciplines are clear: assisting law enforcement officials, enhancing homeland security, and reducing the risk of wrongful conviction and exoneration. Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States gives a full account of what is needed to advance the forensic science disciplines, including upgrading of systems and organizational structures, better training, widespread adoption of uniform and enforceable best practices, and mandatory certification and accreditation programs. While this book provides an essential call-to-action for congress and policy makers, it also serves as a vital tool for law enforcement agencies, criminal prosecutors and attorneys, and forensic science educators.

Download or read book Advanced Materials Research Development Test and Evaluation Laboratories Within DOD written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Advanced Materials and Electronic Devices Research Development Test and Evaluation Laboratories Within DoD written by Inspector general Dept. of defense arlington va and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Director, Defense Research and Engineering (DDR & E), has primary responsibility for implementing the Department of Defense Science and Technology program. The DDR & E exercises authority, direction, and control over the Advanced Research Projects Agency and all laboratories and research, development, and engineering centers operated by the Military Departments or other DoD Components. The overall audit objective was to determine whether DoD was making redundant investments in Advanced Materials and Microelectronics Research and Development Laboratories. Specific objectives included evaluating the adequacy of DoD management and oversight of the various laboratories and the effectiveness of Project Reliance as implemented by the Joint Directors of Laboratories. We also evaluated laboratory consolidations and realignments to verify cost avoidance claimed by Project Reliance in response to Defense Management Review Decision 922 initiatives. The DDR & E lacked the resources to provide adequate policy guidance and oversight of the Military Department laboratories and the Advanced Research Projects Agency. At the conclusion of our audit, DDR & E was in the process of issuing science and technology programing guidance, but more needs to be done (Finding A). The Department of Defense is making redundant investments in laboratory facilities and equipment, as well as research projects (Finding B). Project Reliance as implemented by the Joint Directors of Laboratories has resulted in minimal savings and few consolidations of laboratory facilities (Finding C).

Download or read book Vision 21 The Plan for 21st Century Laboratories and Test and Evaluation Centers of the Department of Defense Requirements Report to the President and Congress written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on direction from the Office of the President and provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996, the DoD is preparing a plan for its laboratories and test and evaluation (T & E) centers for the 21st century. This plan, called Vision 21, will be based upon the requirements to support the development and test and evaluation (T & E) of current and future weapon systems and will identify the critical laboratories and T & E centers needed to achieve them. The plan will rest on three implementing and integrating pillars: Reduction, Restructuring (Intra-Service and Cross-Service), and Revitalization to attain a modern, efficient, and effective laboratory and T & E center environment with focus on the costs of facilities and infrastructure. Vision 2 will include options to achieve a goal of reducing the cost of the DoD laboratory and T & E infrastructure. One option will reflect reductions in the laboratory and T & E infrastructure each by at least 20% beyond Base Realignment and Closure 1995 (BRAC). The adopted plan will be implemented over a five year period (FY 2001-2005).