The rise in people seeking emergency medical care after sexual assault outpaces the growth of law enforcement reporting.
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This sort of plant trace evidence is more valuable than ever today in forensic investigations and can include microscopic materials from plant seeds, pollen, spores, and their DNA.
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Since 2018, the EPS has used investigative genetic genealogy on five cases, including three sexual assaults, one armed robbery and one human remains investigation.
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Researchers have compared speaker identification by listeners, like judges or jury members, with the output of a forensic-voice-comparison system.
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Mistrust between the police and the communities they serve has exacerbated crime, according to two West Virginia University sociologists who hope to reimagine and reshape policing techniques in American communities.
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Using cutting edge forensic science, Oritain can identify this unique ratio in the soil that is "imprinted" from grapes to the finished wine creating a scientific link that runs through the land, the vine and the wine.
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Through years of legal and technological refinement, animation has become the standard in modern forensic visualization.
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Orange County Sheriff’s investigators have released an updated forensic rendering of a 2013 John Doe in an effort to identify the man and generate new leads on his homicide case.
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Pennsylvania has one of the highest rates of opioid overdose in the nation, and, according to Penn State researchers, one’s chances of surviving that overdose can depend on where the person lives.
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As part of her work, Pavlik is running enzyme assays. Veeser’s thesis focuses on drug testing that can sometimes reveal trace levels of methamphetamine in individuals who are taking amphetamine as a treatment for ADHD.
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