Webinars

What does it mean when someone talks about human factors considerations or cognitive bias concerns in forensic science and what recommendations exist to address these concerns? This webinar will be followed by a group activity in which attendees will work through the simple implementation of a new framework to address concerns raised in the webinar.

This webinar and workshop are on-demand and available immediately.

This webinar is a practical training tool for criminal justice training partners and DNA analysts who intend to provide clear and accurate descriptions of DNA results in forensic testimony and reports. This event will include real-life examples of good reporting practices and poor testimony practices from transcripts with immediate tips on how to avoid making common mistakes.

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Shoe tread impressions are one of the most common types of evidence left at crime scenes. The seminar will describe the development and evaluation of computer vision-based techniques for automatically matching class characteristics of crime scene evidence to a large-scale database of commercial footwear tread photos.

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Workplace stress can affect forensic experts’ job satisfaction and performance, which holds financial and other implications for forensic service providers. Therefore, it is important to understand and manage workplace stress, but that is not simple or straightforward. This talk aims to help forensic service providers and policymakers to implement context-specific interventions to manage stress at work and optimize expert performance, by developing a deeper understanding of the stressors, their sources, and their possible impacts.

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To make matters worse, the ingredients are often confused, conflated, and transposed. The goal of this presentation is to review the precepts of conditional probability, the notation of Bayes’ Formula, and the touchpoints with presumption of innocence and probable cause.

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The treatment of inconclusive decisions and calculation of error rates have become controversial topics in forensic science. This presentation will provide a brief summary of the challenges, highlight prior viewpoints and suggestions that have been proposed to address the issues, and recommend a path forward for the forensic science community.

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While firearms comparison evidence is commonly used in criminal cases, we have seen a recent and growing resurgence of judicial skepticism of firearms comparison evidence. These recent rulings, responding to scientific critiques, followed, however, many decades of near-universal acceptance of the evidence. We analyze the path of judicial rulings in this important area of forensic evidence.

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The American criminal justice system heavily relies on conclusions reached by the forensic science community.

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Humans play a critical role in forensic decision making. Drawing upon classic and cognitive psychological research on factors that influence and underpin expert decision making, Dr. Dror shows the weakness and vulnerabilities in forensic decision making before proposing a broad and versatile approach to strengthening forensic expert decisions.

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Every stake holder claims dominion over the reconstruction of a violent event (detectives, attorneys, scientists, trier-of-fact), yet most have nothing but common (non)-sense and parochial experience to guide their efforts.

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