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Chemistry World
November 2007
Lisa Melton |
Courtroom Chemistry When analyzing the smallest traces of evidence at a crime scene, chemistry is key.   |
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. |
Scientific American
August 21, 2006
Sally Lehrman |
Missing No Longer An international commission forges ahead to identify genocide victims. The political situation is far from settled in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and ethnic and nationalistic tensions still simmer. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Smithsonian
November 2005 |
35 Who Made a Difference: Douglas Owsley Dead people tell no tales -- but their bones do, when this forensic anthropologist examines them. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2006
David Dobbs |
Forensics Under Fire The unparalleled accuracy of DNA analysis has forced traditional forensic science to stand trial. |
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. |
Salon.com
November 26, 2002
Charles Taylor |
Kiss Miss Marple goodbye Scottish mystery author Val McDermid talks about the tough reality of life in today's Britain and why crime writers, not literary novelists, are the ones facing up to it. |
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
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. |
Chemistry World
December 2008
Richard Van Noorden |
Editorial: Fiction failure Rare as it is for chemistry and its ideas to star in fiction, it's rarer still to find a story with a character who happens to be a chemist, but is also simply a well-rounded human being. |
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. |
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 |
Information Today
December 15, 2015 |
Gale Debuts 19th-Century Crime and Punishment Collection Gale launched Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920, its new primary-source archive of more than 2 million pages of material on 19th-century history, literature, law, and criminal justice. |
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. |
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... |
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? |
Reason
April 2008
Radley Balko |
Silencing the Dead Is an attorney released from the attorney-client privilege after his client dies? In North Carolina, the answer apparently is yes -- but only if it helps prosecutors. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2006
Brad Reagan |
The Digital Detectives Hidden folders, "deleted" files and internet caches hide clues criminals never knew they left behind. |
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. |
Salon.com
September 9, 2002
Laura Miller |
Imagining death From Alice Sebold's "The Lovely Bones" to Stephen King's "From a Buick 8" to Haruki Murakami's "After the Quake," post 9/11 fiction offers readers consolation, harsh truths and a glimpse of the great mystery. |
Salon.com
January 3, 2001
Charles Taylor |
The crime of my life Election and recession getting you down? Check out the mystery novels that got me through a very tough year... |
Home Toys
October 2005
James Russo |
The C3 Expo A PC Expo for the 21st Century Huge, overstuffed floor exhibits and shows put on by the big computer companies have given way to smaller companies providing more specialized tools and services. Fly-by-night internet companies have been replaced by more reputable online companies offering valuable Web services. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 75
David Bradley |
CSI: Waco A statistical method that processes spectroscopic measurements very quickly could allow crime scene investigators to determine time of death of skeletal remains more accurately and quicker than before. |
Reason
November 2002
Joyce Lee Malcolm |
Gun Control's Twisted Outcome Restricting firearms has helped make England more crime-ridden than the U.S. |
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 |
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. |
