Criminals sometimes damage their mobile phones in an attempt to destroy evidence. Now, researchers at NIST have tested how well these forensic methods work.
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According to a doctoral thesis completed by Nadia Valentina Tapia Navarro, victims of mass atrocities are often portrayed as disempowered, passive, defenceless and docile in discourses pertaining to international law.
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The eruption of Mount Vesuvius turned an incinerated victim's brain material into glass, the first time scientists have verified the phenomenon from a volcanic blast, officials at the Herculaneum archaeology site said.
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The Justice Department has awarded grants totaling more than $145 million to fund crime laboratories, decrease DNA backlogs, support basic and applied forensic research and help law enforcement identify missing persons.
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The Washington Post is reporting that the FBI is investigating a firearms analyst at the District of Columbia Department of Forensic Sciences.
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Chicago police have ended a program that sought to predict people most likely to be victims or perpetrators of gun crime, according to a watchdog report that warned the department of serious flaws in the approach.
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An experiment in London’s Underground has found crime declines in areas where police patrolling was recently seen, meaning potential offenders become apprehensive about police presence and adjust their crime behavior pattern accordingly.
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A new proof-of-concept study that uses a highly sensitive mass spectrometry method to date fingerprints has its authors thinking they can test the promising methods in real criminal cases within the next few years.
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London police will start using facial recognition cameras to pick out suspects from street crowds in real time, in a major advance for the controversial technology that raises worries about automated surveillance and erosion of privacy rights.
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After years of trying, the Washington state House of Representatives passed a bill that allows the State Patrol to destroy guns they confiscated during criminal investigations.
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