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Since the early 1990s, American and International forensic science laboratories and practitioners have collaborated in Scientific Working Groups (SWGs) to improve discipline practices and build consensus standards. In 2014, the SWGs are being reorganized under the NIST Organization for Scientific Area Committees (OSAC).
Forensic video analysis has been used in a variety of high profile cases, international disagreements, and conflict zones. Video forensics is necessary to show that images and videos used in court and media are verifiably true. Video forensics is especially important when media and governments use video coming from areas of state failure.
Video fingerprinting is also used by authorities to track the distribution of illegal content such as happy slapping, terrorist and child sexual abuse related videos. In 2008 the Dutch company Ziuz, together with the Dutch Police , TNO and University of Amsterdam developed video fingerprinting for detecting child sexual abuse related videos.
Founded in 1999 as a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization, the Virginia Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine is a provider of education, training, and research. The Institute's purpose is to strengthen and improve the administration of justice by educating forensic scientists, forensic pathologists, law enforcement, legal professionals, medical professionals, and the public.
The American Board of Forensic Document Examiners, Inc. (ABFDE) is a non-profit organization which provides third-party certification of professional forensic document examiners (FDEs) from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States of America, and other countries if approved by the board of directors. Sponsored by the American ...
The New Detectives: Case Studies in Forensic Science (or simply The New Detectives, formally "Forensic Detectives") [7] is a documentary true crime television show that aired two to three different cases in forensic science per episode from 1996 to 2004.
The FBI Laboratory was founded on November 24, 1932. Despite the budget limitations during the Great Depression, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover invested in major equipment upgrades including ultraviolet lamps, microscopes, moulage, and an extensive collection of tire treads, bullets, guns, and other materials that could assist local police in identifying crime scene evidence.
Skip Palenik (/ ˈ p æ l ə n ɪ k / PAL-ə-nik; born July 24, 1946) is an American analytical microscopist, forensic scientist, lecturer, and author.He is most famous for providing trace evidence analysis and forensic microscopy for many high-profile cases including the Oklahoma City Bombing, Unabomber investigation, Hillside Strangler investigation and the JonBenet Ramsey case, and for his ...