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Popular Mechanics August 2009 Brad Reagan	CSI Myths: The Shaky Science Behind Forensics Bite marks, blood-splatter patterns, ballistics, and hair, fiber and handwriting analysis sound compelling in the courtroom, but much of the "science" behind forensic science rests on surprisingly shaky foundations.
Popular Mechanics July 27, 2009 Brad Reagan	The Truth About 4 Common Forensics Methods Room for doubt in deciphering the information in four important types of criminal evidence
Reason November 2007 Roger Koppl	Breaking Up the Forensics Monopoly America's forensics system, the part of our criminal justice system responsible for scientific examinations of crime-scene evidence like fingerprints and DNA, is rife with errors. Here are eight ways to fix the broken system.
IEEE Spectrum December 2010 Sargur N. Srihari	Beyond C.S.I.: The Rise of Computational Forensics Pattern recognition and other computational methods can reduce the bias inherent in traditional criminal forensics
Chemistry World November 2007 Lisa Melton	Courtroom Chemistry When analyzing the smallest traces of evidence at a crime scene, chemistry is key.
Reason April 2009 Radley Balko	Forensics Fraud? Experts say this video shows a doctor manufacturing evidence. So why is a man still on death row?
Reason November 2007 Radley Balko	CSI: Mississippi Forensic doctor Steven Hayne's career in court is an egregious example of what happens when the criminal justice system fails to adequately oversee expert testimony.
CIO January 1, 2003 Susannah Patton	A Bullets List Since the 1930s, police investigators have studied bullets to find key evidence. At a crime scene, investigators would retrieve any bullets and cartridge cases, and take them to police labs. Now, in communities across the country, the ballistics imaging and matching process is computerized.
Chemistry World May 14, 2014 Tim Wogan	Fingertip sweat pore maps to catch criminals The technique uses a water-sensitive polymer to detect the unique pattern of sweat pores on fingertips and may one day help the police to identify fingerprints left on surfaces that are impossible to scrutinize with current techniques.
Chemistry World June 6, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Fingerprints Recovered From Wiped Metal Forensic scientists can now find fingerprints on metal surfaces that have been wiped clean. Scientists have developed a way of enhancing the patterns that fingerprint residues corrode in metal surfaces.
Chemistry World December 1, 2014 Rebecca Trager	Hard questions after litany of forensic failures at US labs At least five high profile cases of serious malpractice at US forensic crime labs have come to light in the last two years.
Salon.com June 12, 2000 Alan Berlow	Bush's death penalty dodge The Texas governor has issued his first reprieve in a death penalty case; the question is whether he's seen the light or is just playing politics.
Chemistry World September 29, 2015 Rebecca Trager	Forensic crime lab malpractice surfaces in Oregon New revelations that a chemist at an Oregon state forensics lab appears to have tampered with drug evidence have led the state's governor to launch an investigation.
Salon.com March 17, 2000 Alicia Montgomery	Angels of justice Barry Scheck and Jim Dwyer talk about the Innocence Project, which has helped overturn eight wrongful convictions of death-row inmates.
IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Simon A. Cole	Double Helix Jeopardy DNA databases help solve crimes but some say they also aid and abet racial discrimination. Can there be a compromise between the desire for privacy and the need for crime control?
Wired May 2002 Jacob Ward	Crime Seen Forensic science meets computer animation -- in the courtroom. Crime-scene reconstruction will never be the same...
Geotimes January 2005 Raymond C. Murray	Collecting Crime Evidence from Earth Geologic evidence will continue to be developed and presented in courtrooms around the world. The quality of evidence collection and examination will improve, and new methods will be developed. The results will be to the benefit of justice.
AskMen.com Bernie Alexander	5 Things CSI Doesn't Tell You About Forensics With the topic being hotter than ever, let's look at five things that CSI hasn't told you about forensics.
Chemistry World February 4, 2011 Holly Sheahan	Crime scene DNA testing on the move A microfluidic chip that can come up with a DNA profile in less than three hours has been designed by US scientists for use at crime scenes.
Smithsonian August 2007 Cate Lineberry	On the Case Kathy Reichs, the forensic expert who helped inspire the TV show "Bones," talks about homicides, DNA and her latest novel.
Chemistry World October 5, 2012 Patrick Walter	Forensic lab error led to miscarriage of justice A forensics error has led to an innocent man being held for five months on a charge of rape in the UK. The DNA sample from the rape victim was contaminated during a routine DNA extraction procedure, although this is thought to have been an isolated incident.
IEEE Spectrum July 2010 Richard P. Mislan	Cellphone Crime Solvers Could the murder victim's BlackBerry lead to her killer? Increasingly, the answer is yes
Reason January 2009 Brian Doherty	Baloney Ballistics Gun databases fail. Devoting so much record keeping to every gun sold guarantees wasted effort, since less than 1 percent of all guns sold will ever be used in a crime.
Salon.com July 10, 2002 Karin Halperin	Black-and-blue in ones and zeros Digital photography is revolutionizing the prosecution of domestic violence cases.
Chemistry World August 6, 2013 Jennifer Newton	Keeping lipstick evidence in the bag Michael Went, from the University of Kent in the UK, and colleagues have shown that vibrational fingerprints obtained by Raman spectroscopy can distinguish between different brands and types of lipstick.
Chemistry World March 2012	Another brick in the whorl The scientists on the inside of advanced fingerprinting research are cross-examined by Simon Hadlington
Chemistry World April 1, 2011 Hayley Birch	Nanoparticles help reveal hidden fingerprints A technique using gold nanoparticles in combination with antibodies has shown promising results for enhancing fingerprints that are over a week old.
Chemistry World April 4, 2013 Rebecca Trager	Massachusetts crime lab scandal explodes The arrest of another forensic lab chemist has prosecutors scrambling to check drug cases she worked on.
Popular Mechanics December 2007 Paul Tolme	Wildlife CSI: Inside the Case of the Poisoned Meatballs Crime labs investigate illegal killings of endangered species.
Bio-IT World June 2005 Robert M. Frederickson	Crime Pays for DNAPrint Genomics DNAWITNESS 2.0 is used by law enforcement agencies to determine the likely genetic heritage of DNA samples obtained from crime scenes -- thereby narrowing the potential pool of suspects or victims.
Reason June 2008	Letters "Guns for D.C.?"... "Whatever Happened to Tax Cuts?"... "CSI: Mississippi"...
Chemistry World July 25, 2007 Simon Hadlington	Lift-Off for Fingerprint Analysis UK researchers have demonstrated a new non-destructive method to collect and chemically interrogate fingerprints left at the scene of a crime.
Bio-IT World September 11, 2003 Melissa Kruse	Soul Searching Two years ago, 2,792 lives were lost in the collapse of the World Trade Center. While rescuers labored night and day to recover the bodies, a small Michigan software company set about salvaging their identities.
Chemistry World October 8, 2012 Rebecca Trager	US crime lab chemist arrest causes reverberations Last month's arrest of a chemist, who worked in a Massachusetts Department of Public Health state laboratory, for allegedly falsifying evidence used in criminal cases is prompting calls for major forensic science reform in the US.
Chemistry World April 5, 2012 Heather Montgomery	Shining a light on fingerprint detection Scientists in China have discovered a method for visualizing latent fingerprints found at the scene of a crime, which they say is very simple, rapid, does not require professional forensic treatment and does not destroy the print.
AskMen.com	Crime: A Family Thing? Although its legality has not been tested in court, a growing number of law enforcement agencies nationwide are considering whether to adopt a technique that entails looking through the database for a near-match rather than an exact match.
Reason November 2002 Joyce Lee Malcolm	Gun Control's Twisted Outcome Restricting firearms has helped make England more crime-ridden than the U.S.
Popular Mechanics May 2006 Brad Reagan	The Digital Detectives Hidden folders, "deleted" files and internet caches hide clues criminals never knew they left behind.
National Defense April 2010 Stew Magnuson	Face, Iris and Fingerprint Biometrics Good Enough for Now, Says White House Staffer Federal agencies that collect biometric data to screen individuals should concentrate their efforts on fingerprints, faces and irises, and perfect the collection of those technologies first.
Scientific American November 12, 2006 Sally Lehrman	Partial to Crime Families become suspects as government rules on DNA matches relax.
Reason December 2008 Radley Balko	Innocence Denied As the science of DNA testing improves, labs can go further and further back in time to test even damaged and partially decomposed DNA evidence.
T.H.E. Journal January 2008 Julie Sturgeon	CSI: Hard Drive Hate groups, terrorist activity, pimping. A day in the life of local law enforcement? No, just a routine sweep of school computers. Digital forensic technology is uncovering the bad, sometimes criminal behavior students and faculty are guilty of.
Popular Mechanics December 2009	Can Digital Tech and Insects Replace Cadaver-Sniffing Dogs? Forensic scientists work with law enforcement to locate and identify corpses at crime scenes and they need new chemical, biological, and digital methods when the old ones are not practical.
AskMen.com Ross Bonander	5 Things You Didn't Know: DNA With human cloning and other controversial bombshells waiting just around the corner, expect DNA to remain in the public eye for decades to come.
Chemistry World May 14, 2014 Rebecca Brodie	Hair elements distinguish ethnicity and gender A new forensic tool, being developed by scientists in Canada, uses a combination of spectroscopy and statistical analysis to determine a person's gender and ethnicity from a thread of head hair.
CIO May 15, 2004 Paul Roberts	Fed Fingerprint Database Spreads Across U.S. - Criminal Justice The wider use of fingerprint scanning technology in recent years has made it easier than ever for law enforcement officials to share information about criminals and quickly compare a suspect's fingerprint image with millions of similar imprints.
Chemistry World November 7, 2013 Simon Hadlington	Rocket-propelled read-out for new DNA chip US researchers have invented a lab-on-a-chip that can measure how much of a specific strand of DNA is in a sample using a 'rocket-propelled' thread of ink that can be read by eye.
Chemistry World January 27, 2015 Maria Burke	Fears for forensic quality in England and Wales There is a real danger of forensic science standards slipping in the UK, according to a report from the National Audit Office. Concerns include a lack of transparency in police spending and a regulator that is virtually powerless.
CIO March 1, 2001 Matt Villano	IT Autopsy No longer an obscure component of network security, computer forensics has blossomed into a science all its own...
ifeminists January 24, 2007 Wendy McElroy	Overzealous Porn Prosecution Tramples Accused's Rights Due process was not championed as a protection against false accusations by a victim but as a shield against abusive prosecution by the State. The Founding Fathers knew that people sometimes lie but their focus was to limit the power by government.