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Closing Cases Using Gunshot Residue

May 2024

Series

Justice Today Podcast

Not every crime scene will have definitive evidence, such as DNA, to link an individual to a crime. In those cases, law enforcement relies on other evidence to build the burden of proof. NIJ graduate research fellow Dr. Shelby Khandasammy developed a tool to analyze organic gunshot residue and distinguish between different firearms calibers and manufacturers. She joins Marie Garcia, office director for the Office of Criminal Justice Systems at NIJ, to talk about her work and experience as a research fellow. 

A combined molecular approach utilizing microbial DNA and microRNAs in a qPCR multiplex for the classification of five forensically relevant body fluids

Date Published

January 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

A combined molecular approach utilizing microbial DNA and microRNAs in a qPCR multiplex for the classification of five forensically relevant body fluids

NCJ Number

308557

Journal

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Date Published

January 2024

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NIJ-Sponsored

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An Admixture Approach to Trihybrid Ancestry Variation in the Philippines With Implications for Forensic Anthropology

Date Published

2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

School Transitions as a Turning Point for Gang Status

Date Published

2017

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

IBCFAP: Intra-Body Communications Five-Layers Arm Phantom Model

Date Published

2019

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Spatial Distributions of Furan and 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural in Unroasted and Roasted Coffea Arabica Beans

Date Published

May 2019

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Credentialing Decisions and Criminal Records: A Narrative Approach

Date Published

2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Natural Surveillance Characteristics of Building Openings and Relationship to Residential Burglary

Date Published

January 2019

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Reconsidering Osteoarthritis as a Skeletal Indicator of Age at Death

Date Published

2019

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Validation of the Acetabulum As a Skeletal Indicator of Age at Death in Modern European-Americans

Date Published

2019

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

How Formerly Incarcerated Women Confront the Limits of Caring and the Burdens of Control Amid California's Carceral Realignment

Date Published

2019

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Conceptualizing the Personal Touch Experiential Knowledge and Gendered Strategies in Community Supervision Work

Date Published

May 2019

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

A Postconviction Mentality: Prosecutorial Assistance in Exoneration Cases

Date Published

2019

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

In Vitro Isolation of Small-Molecule-Binding Aptamers With Intrinsic Dye-Displacement Functionality

Date Published

2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Work as Foraging: A Smartphone Study of Job Search and Employment after Prison

Date Published

2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

A Multidimensional Approach to Ascertaining Individual Differentiation and Consistency in Serial Sexual Assault: Is It Time to Redefine and Refine?

Date Published

2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Molar Crenulation Trait Definition and Variation in Modern Human Populations

Date Published

May 2018

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Prediction of Active Site and Distal Residues in E.coli DNA Polymerase III alpha Polymerase Activity

Date Published

2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Physical Multi-Layer Phantoms for Intra-Body Communications

Date Published

2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Do Cellmates Matter? A Causal Test of the Schools of Crime Hypothesis With Implications for Differential Association and Deterrence Theories

Date Published

2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Appraising Forensic Anthropology in the Philippines: Current Status and Future Directions

Date Published

July 2018

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description, Historical Overview

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Prison Officer Legitimacy, Their Exercise of Power, and Inmate Rule Breaking

Date Published

2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

NOCIt: A Computational Method To Infer the Number of Contributors to DNA Samples Analyzed by STR Genotyping

Date Published

November 2014

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Evaluation of Four Commercial Quantitative Real-Time PCR Kits With Inhibited and Degraded Samples

Date Published

2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Evaluation, Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored