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5/20/2009
New generation of journalism creates opportunities - and responsibilities - for crime laboratories

4/15/2009
Voices of History:  The father of firearm identification speaks.  A Conversation with Dr. Calvin Goddard.

4/1/2009
A response to the testimony of Judge Harry T. Edwards before the Senate Judiciary Committee


3/18/2009

Congress must protect forensic science from bad politics


3/3/2009

National Academy of Sciences Report

2/18/2009
Yet Another Wrongful Conviction Misattributed to Faulty Science

1/21/2009

Forensic Pattern Identification:
A history lesson, and some advice, for Saks and Faigman


12/17/2008
Prosecutors don't belong in the crime lab business

11/19/2008
Business - the lifeblood of forensic science

10/20/2008
Crime Labs Under the Police - Unresolved Issues

9/17/2008

2008 ASCLD Symposium is in Session


8/20/2008
Pharmacists, Doctors, and Forensic Scientists

7/16/2008

New Study 'Exonerates' Forensic Science

6/18/2008
Licensing, Accreditation, or Certification?

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The National Academy of Sciences

Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Science Community

Washington, D.C. - A special National Academies committee convened in 2005 to examine current practices and conditions in the forensic sciences releases its much anticipated report on February 18, 2009.  For more information about this historic report, please click the following link:

Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States

The Wrongful Conviction of Forensic Science
By John M. Collins and Jay Jarvis

Read the preprint draft submitted to Taylor & Francis for publication in Forensic Science Policy and Management. 

 

 

 


 

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