News tagged with journal of forensic sciences
Study over 145-year period: Murder-suicides occur at home, in close relationships
(PhysOrg.com) -- After examining murder-suicides over a 145-year period, a Ball State research team has found the majority of such acts occur in the home and the perpetrator and victim are in an intimate relationship.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 07, 2012 |
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Foot bones allow researchers to determine sex of skeletal remains
Law enforcement officials who are tasked with identifying a body based on partial skeletal remains have a new tool at their disposal. A new paper from North Carolina State University researchers details how ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 29, 2012 |
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Analyzing complex plant genomes with the newest next-generation DNA sequencing techniques
Genomes are catalogs of hereditary information that determine whether an organism becomes a plant, animal, fungus or microbe, and whether the organism is adapted to its surroundings. Determining the sequence ...
Feb 27, 2012 |
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Crime scene measurements can be taken from a single image
Two researchers from the University of Salamanca have developed a procedure to enable forensic police to extract metric data from crime scenes using just a single photograph. Their proposal, published this ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 01, 2009 |
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Bitemark evidence and analysis should be approached with caution, study reports
Against the backdrop of last week's Congressional hearing into the future of forensic science, researchers from the University at Buffalo's Laboratory for Forensic Odontology Research in the School of Dental Medicine, have ...
Sep 16, 2009 |
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'Suicide by cop' phenomenon occurring in over a third of North American shootings involving police
Pasadena, CA—February 18, 2009—"Suicide by Cop" (SBC) is a suicide method in which a person engages in actual or apparent danger to others in an attempt to get oneself killed or injured by law enforcement. A new study in ...
Feb 18, 2009 |
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