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Popular Mechanics July 2006 David Dobbs	Forensics Under Fire The unparalleled accuracy of DNA analysis has forced traditional forensic science to stand trial.
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
Popular Mechanics July 27, 2009 Brad Reagan	The Truth About 4 Common Forensics Methods Room for doubt in deciphering the information in four important types of criminal evidence
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 November 2007 Lisa Melton	Courtroom Chemistry When analyzing the smallest traces of evidence at a crime scene, chemistry is key.
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.
Reason April 2009 Radley Balko	Forensics Fraud? Experts say this video shows a doctor manufacturing evidence. So why is a man still on death row?
Reason November 2007 Radley Balko	CSI: Mississippi Forensic doctor Steven Hayne's career in court is an egregious example of what happens when the criminal justice system fails to adequately oversee expert testimony.
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.
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.
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?
Smithsonian August 2007 Cate Lineberry	On the Case Kathy Reichs, the forensic expert who helped inspire the TV show "Bones," talks about homicides, DNA and her latest novel.
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.
Searcher September 2003 Kenneth Fink	Criminology Web Sites: An Annotated "Webliography" This list may serve as an introduction to the many Web sites devoted to both the prosaic and exotic in the field of criminology.
Salon.com June 12, 2000 Alan Berlow	Bush's death penalty dodge The Texas governor has issued his first reprieve in a death penalty case; the question is whether he's seen the light or is just playing politics.
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.
Wired May 2002 Jacob Ward	Crime Seen Forensic science meets computer animation -- in the courtroom. Crime-scene reconstruction will never be the same...
Salon.com July 10, 2002 Karin Halperin	Black-and-blue in ones and zeros Digital photography is revolutionizing the prosecution of domestic violence cases.
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 May 14, 2014 Tim Wogan	Fingertip sweat pore maps to catch criminals The technique uses a water-sensitive polymer to detect the unique pattern of sweat pores on fingertips and may one day help the police to identify fingerprints left on surfaces that are impossible to scrutinize with current techniques.
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.
Geotimes January 2005	Geomedia Forensic Geology on the Small Screen... "Evidence From the Earth," by Raymond C. Murray... "Earth Colors," by Sarah Andrews... South Dakota Mapping...
Scientific American November 12, 2006 Sally Lehrman	Partial to Crime Families become suspects as government rules on DNA matches relax.
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...
Reason December 2008 Radley Balko	Innocence Denied As the science of DNA testing improves, labs can go further and further back in time to test even damaged and partially decomposed DNA evidence.
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.
Popular Mechanics May 2006 Brad Reagan	The Digital Detectives Hidden folders, "deleted" files and internet caches hide clues criminals never knew they left behind.
CIO January 1, 2003 Susannah Patton	A Bullets List Since the 1930s, police investigators have studied bullets to find key evidence. At a crime scene, investigators would retrieve any bullets and cartridge cases, and take them to police labs. Now, in communities across the country, the ballistics imaging and matching process is computerized.
Salon.com March 17, 2000 Alicia Montgomery	Angels of justice Barry Scheck and Jim Dwyer talk about the Innocence Project, which has helped overturn eight wrongful convictions of death-row inmates.
Chemistry World August 6, 2013 Jennifer Newton	Keeping lipstick evidence in the bag Michael Went, from the University of Kent in the UK, and colleagues have shown that vibrational fingerprints obtained by Raman spectroscopy can distinguish between different brands and types of lipstick.
Popular Mechanics December 2007 Paul Tolme	Wildlife CSI: Inside the Case of the Poisoned Meatballs Crime labs investigate illegal killings of endangered species.
Chemistry World June 6, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Fingerprints Recovered From Wiped Metal Forensic scientists can now find fingerprints on metal surfaces that have been wiped clean. Scientists have developed a way of enhancing the patterns that fingerprint residues corrode in metal surfaces.
Chemistry World July 25, 2007 Simon Hadlington	Lift-Off for Fingerprint Analysis UK researchers have demonstrated a new non-destructive method to collect and chemically interrogate fingerprints left at the scene of a crime.
Salon.com December 13, 2000 Christopher Kemp	The bugs crawl in, the bugs crawl out What kind of man lurks in dark, steamy jungles studying the insects he finds on corpses? It's all in a night's work when you're a forensic entomologist. A review of A Fly for the Prosecution: How Insect Evidence Helps Solve Crimes, by M. Lee Goff...
Chemistry World September 5, 2013 Jason Woolford	A biochemical eyewitness Blood found at a crime scene could give police an indication of a criminal suspect's ethnicity there and then thanks to a new bioassay.
Chemistry World October 5, 2012 Patrick Walter	Forensic lab error led to miscarriage of justice A forensics error has led to an innocent man being held for five months on a charge of rape in the UK. The DNA sample from the rape victim was contaminated during a routine DNA extraction procedure, although this is thought to have been an isolated incident.
CIO May 1, 2003 Ben Worthen	Database Cracks Murder Case Now, searching a set of prints against the 45 million on file in the FBI's national database takes only a couple of minutes. The system helped crack a case that had been closed for 45 years.
Chemistry World April 5, 2012 Heather Montgomery	Shining a light on fingerprint detection Scientists in China have discovered a method for visualizing latent fingerprints found at the scene of a crime, which they say is very simple, rapid, does not require professional forensic treatment and does not destroy the print.
Chemistry World January 27, 2015 Maria Burke	Fears for forensic quality in England and Wales There is a real danger of forensic science standards slipping in the UK, according to a report from the National Audit Office. Concerns include a lack of transparency in police spending and a regulator that is virtually powerless.
Chemistry World October 26, 2012 Rachel Cooper	Determining sex from a fingerprint Peptides naturally present in sweat are distinctive for one sex or the other. The ability to determine the sex of an individual from fingermarks left at crime scenes advances our current understanding of the limits of the forensic usefulness of fingermarks.
ifeminists January 24, 2007 Wendy McElroy	Overzealous Porn Prosecution Tramples Accused's Rights Due process was not championed as a protection against false accusations by a victim but as a shield against abusive prosecution by the State. The Founding Fathers knew that people sometimes lie but their focus was to limit the power by government.
Reason June 2008	Letters "Guns for D.C.?"... "Whatever Happened to Tax Cuts?"... "CSI: Mississippi"...
Chemistry World July 30, 2013 Maria Burke	Forensic science service closure criticized The justice system's ability to convict criminals is at risk following the closure of the UK's Forensic Science Service in March 2012, warn MPs.
Chemistry World January 15, 2014 Kirsty Muirhead	Biomarkers leave gender clues at crime scene Scientists in the US have unveiled details of a colorimetric assay that could provide an initial indication of a suspect's gender during the on-scene stages of a forensic investigation.
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.
Bio-IT World September 11, 2003 Melissa Kruse	Soul Searching Two years ago, 2,792 lives were lost in the collapse of the World Trade Center. While rescuers labored night and day to recover the bodies, a small Michigan software company set about salvaging their identities.
U.S. Banker December 2010 Katie Kuehner-Hebert	Inside Jobs Large and small banks alike are dealing with a spike in fraud, much of it by trusted employees.
Chemistry World March 2012	Another brick in the whorl The scientists on the inside of advanced fingerprinting research are cross-examined by Simon Hadlington
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
T.H.E. Journal January 2008 Julie Sturgeon	CSI: Hard Drive Hate groups, terrorist activity, pimping. A day in the life of local law enforcement? No, just a routine sweep of school computers. Digital forensic technology is uncovering the bad, sometimes criminal behavior students and faculty are guilty of.