Guilty until proven innocent: police perceptions jeopardize investigations
An investigator's belief that a person is guilty may be the reason innocent people get convicted, according to a recent study.
Social Sciences
Oct 22, 2018
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News tagged with suspect
Test determines individuals likeliest to shed DNA at crime scenes
Modern DNA forensic science is capable of analysing microscopic genetic traces inadvertently left at crime scenes.
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 5, 2018
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The hidden data in your fingerprints
Fingerprints have provided key evidence in countless cases of serious crime. But there are still some situations in which it can be difficult or impossible to recover fingerprints and this can cause a headache for forensic ...
Security
Apr 27, 2018
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US police lineups are better at catching criminals than UK ones
Ted Bundy was suspected of a string of kidnappings, rapes, and murders in the US. Police placed him in a lineup to see if an eyewitness to kidnappings in the Lake Sammamish area near Seattle would identify him. She did not ...
Social Sciences
Sep 7, 2016
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Indonesia seizes hundreds of frozen pangolins
Indonesian authorities have seized more than 650 critically endangered pangolins found hidden in freezers and arrested a man for allegedly breaking wildlife protection laws, police said on Friday.
Ecology
Aug 26, 2016
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Overwhelming evidence? It's probably a bad thing
The old adage that says "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is" has finally been put to the test – mathematically – in research led by the University of Adelaide.
Mathematics
Jan 12, 2016
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Why too much evidence can be a bad thing
(Phys.org)—Under ancient Jewish law, if a suspect on trial was unanimously found guilty by all judges, then the suspect was acquitted. This reasoning sounds counterintuitive, but the legislators of the time had noticed ...
Misconduct, not error, accounts for most scientific paper retractions, new study finds
In sharp contrast to previous studies suggesting that errors account for the majority of retracted scientific papers, a new analysis—the most comprehensive of its kind—has found that misconduct is responsible for two-thirds ...
Other
Oct 1, 2012
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Al-Qaeda sites go silent in possible cyber attack
Al-Qaeda's main Internet sites have gone silent for more than a week in an unprecedented blackout that is most likely the result of a cyber attack, analysts said Tuesday.
Internet
Apr 3, 2012
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Wright State researchers developing skeletal scans to recognize terrorists
The Wright State Research Institute is developing a ground-breaking system that would scan the skeletal structures of people at airports, sports stadiums, theme parks and other public places that could be vulnerable to terrorist ...
Engineering
Aug 19, 2010
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