Strengthening forensic science: the next wave of scholarship

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Online guide highlighting recent reports and scholarly articles on forensic evidence written by Ken Strutin who is Director of Legal Information Services at the New York State Defenders Association. The guide was published in November 2009 on the features page of LLRX.com (Law Library Resource Xchange) the free online web journal for legal information professionals. The guide features a key report by the National Academy of Sciences called Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward. Some of the articles are responses to this report and others look at a number of other issues relating to forensic evidence including forensic voice comparison, reform of eyewitness identification laws, unlawful destruction of DNA evidence and computer forensic software. The guide includes abstracts for each article and a link to the full text where available.

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