Crime Science

• Azavea Awarded National Science Foundation Sbir Phase Iib Grant for Hunchlab(Tm) to Support Geographic Forecasting of Crime Events

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 1, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Azavea (formerly Avencia), an award-winning geospatial analysis (GIS) software development company has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase IIB grant, totaling $216,000, by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop advanced crime risk forecasting capabilities within HunchLab, the firm's web-based geographic crime data analysis and early warning software system. HunchLab provides advanced crime mapping and automated notification to authorities about changes in the geographic patterns of crime incidents. The system is targeted at the law enforcement agencies and enables police officers to develop and evaluate hunches about geographic patterns in criminal activity in the communities they patrol. The Phase IIB award...

• U.S. Newswire
• December 01, 2010

• Conn. Institute Gives Visitors Hands-On Look at Crime-Scene Science

HARTFORD, Conn. - When you enter the new $14 million home of the Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science at the University of New Haven, you are instantly immersed in the bloodstained world of forensic investigation, and particularly in the cases handled by Lee in his eminent career. First you touch a handprint on a wall that launches a video of Lee explaining that your fingerprints will now be checked with a database. Then the police sirens wail and you hear officers barking orders over a scanner.

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• November 02, 2010

• Thumbs Up! This Little Budding Isaac Newton Is Getting a Head Start On Science Career. Page 7 and the 2010 Clippie Award Winners Are ... Crime Report, Page 11

With the year drawing to a close it's time to look back at the individuals and groups who made Chesapeake - and the world - that much brighter, more vibrant and more reflective. It's time to honor those who made us laugh, smile and cry. Time to laud those who made us go "hmmmm," made us ask "what if?" and had us all singing, marching and dancing along.

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• January 02, 2011

• National Institute of Justice Awards More Than $259 Million to Enhance the Science of Crime and Justice

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 19, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Justice's (DOJ) National Institute of Justice (NIJ) awarded more than $259 million in FY 2010 to build knowledge about crime and justice. NIJ is the research, development and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice, providing objective, independent, evidence-based knowledge and tools to meet the challenges of crime and justice at the state and local levels. The Institute's goal is to develop an innovative, integrated, cutting-edge portfolio of research," said NIJ Director, Dr. John Laub, while attending the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology in San Francisco. "Our research agenda will bring together the three sciences that are the bedrock of NIJ--the social, forensic, and physical s...

• U.S. Newswire
• November 19, 2010

• Big Brother and his science kit: DNA databases for 21st century crime control?

I. INTRODUCTION --Pudd'nhead Wilson(1) Mark Twain was speaking about fingerprints, of course, but prophetically, he might just as well have been s...

• Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
• Vol. 90 Nbr. 2, January 2000

• Tv Show Glamorizes Forensic Science; Recent Crime Lab Opening Attracts 124 Applicants

DES MOINES (AP) - Scientists call it the "CSI effect. A popular television show - "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" - has glamorized crime laboratories and is making forensic science an attractive field for would-be crime fighters, said forensic experts in Iowa.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• October 21, 2005

• High School Students Investigate Crime Scenes in Science Class

OAKWOOD -- The body of the victim, apparently shot twice, was found in Orchardly Park. This was one of three fabricated crime scenes, complete with positioned dummies and yellow police tape, recently investigated by Oakwood High School students. The exercise was the culmination of a semester class on forensic science. Junior Maggie Maher, 17, was the evidence collector at the Orchardly Park crime scene. Wearing latex gloves, Maher collected samples, packed evidence and then listed descriptions of what she found. "This has really opened up my eyes," Maher said. "It's an exciting field." Maher said she has used information she learned in other classes, such as math and chemistry, during the forensics class. The high school began offering the course this year when students, intrigued by th...

• Dayton Daily News
• May 17, 2007

• Technology Taking Grunt Work Out of Criminal Investigations ; Portland's New Regional Crime Lab Offers Best of Science at a Price That Communities Can Afford.

William Farrell was a rookie officer in 1956 when he became one of the Portland Police Department's first evidence technicians. There were three of us guys," Farrell recalls. "They gave us a fingerprint kit, a four-by-five camera and flashbulb equipment and told us we were evidence technicians.

• Portland Press Herald
• September 01, 2009

• Teen Sleuths? Scour 'Crime Scenes' at Forensic Science Camp

By Abram Katz Register Science Editor There was more than enough mayhem to go around Friday at the University of New Haven, with dead bodies facedown in a stairwell, crammed into a refrigerator, supine on a bed, and sitting in a chair with a bullet in the head.

• New Haven Register
• August 25, 2008

• Crime Science: Methods of Forensic Detection.

Crime Science: Methods of Forensic Detection by Joe Nickell and John F. Fischer / University Press of Kentucky, 1999, pp. 300, $25.00 As kids, many ...

• USA Today Magazine
• Vol. 127 Nbr. 2648, May 1999