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  Forensic Facial Composite Software Effective In Police Investigations

  April 30, 2009 — The creators of the EFIT-V forensic facial composite software describe how it works and recent successes with police services in the ... > full story
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  XBox Forensics

  April 30, 2009 — A forensics toolkit for the Xbox gaming console has been developed. The toolkit could allow law enforcement agencies to scour the inbuilt hard disk of such devices and find illicit hidden materials ... > full story
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  High Marks For New Technology For Fingerprint Identification

  April 23, 2009 — Overworked crime scene investigators can take heart at the results of recent tests of new technologies that automate the manual portion of latent fingerprint ... > full story
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  Barely Legal: Alcohol Does Not Appear To Affect Perceptions Of Age

  April 20, 2009 — A new study led by the University of Leicester has demonstrated that consuming alcohol did not affect how men judged the age of women. This has important legal implications if alcohol is cited as a ... > full story
• Blood Clots
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  Large Users Of Sleeping Medicine, Zopiclone, Assessed As Impaired Drivers

  March 26, 2009 — A new study shows a positive link between the amount of the hypnotic (sleeping medicine) zopiclone in the blood and the chance of being assessed as impaired in a clinical examination. The study also ... > full story
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  Organized Crime: Understanding Entrepreneurs Of The Dark Side

  March 26, 2009 — The tools used by business and management researchers could be sharpened to help in the fight against organized crime by recognizing entrepreneurship and career progression in gangs, according to a ... > full story
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  Customer Contact Centers Offer Criminals Multiple Opportunities For Identity Theft, Study Shows

  March 13, 2009 — A survey of 45 customer contact centers in Glasgow, Scotland, has revealed that they offer criminals multiple opportunities for identity theft. Details show that agents at such centers commonly ... > full story
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  New Technique Developed To Date Forensic Death Based On Corpse Microorganisms

  March 12, 2009 — This system, related to thermo-microbiology, will permit to determine more accurately the time of a death which has not occurred under controlled natural conditions or as a consequence of a crime. ... > full story
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  Show Me Your DNA And I'll Tell You Your Eye Color

  March 9, 2009 — More and more information is being gathered about how human genes influence medically relevant traits, such as the propensity to develop a certain disease. The ultimate goal is to predict whether or ... > full story
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  Historic Sample Of Bomb-Grade Plutonium Discovered

  March 2, 2009 — Scientists in Washington state are reporting the surprise discovery of the oldest known sample of reactor-produced bomb-grade plutonium, a historic relic from the infancy of America's nuclear weapons ... > full story

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