Outdoor forensic anthropology research laboratories are colloquially called “body farms,” a term that many researchers find too sensational but that has stuck following the 1994 publication of ...

Any project, supported or not by a committee, that is currently being worked on or is considered active, and will have an end date. This National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine study ...

MARIETTA — Wheeler High School magnet students stumbled across a murder scene in school last week. However, instead of calling the police, they set out solving the crime themselves, eventually ...

Their classroom is a patch of Morgan County woods inhabited by dead people. Corpses in the ground. Corpses above ground. If they succeed at this 10-week school, open to law enforcement across the ...

Forensic science is critical to an effective justice system, which in turn is a pillar of a civil society. It is an interdisciplinary field that includes chemistry as a foundational and integral ...

In every credible justice system, truth is not assumed. It is demonstrated through verifiable scientific evidence. Courts cannot rely on intuition, legislators cannot design effective criminal policy ...

This National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine study will examine the handing of deaths in custody by the medicolegal death investigation system in the United States. It will consider ...