The International Forensic Research Institute serves local and national law enforcement efforts through original research and the application of scientific principles to the administration of justice. The institute also provides a platform for interdisciplinary work across several disciplines.
Research Areas
Some of the research and training areas available through the institute include:
- Arson and explosive residue analysis
- Counterfeit currency detection
- Detector dogs
- DNA evidence and population substructuring
- Drug analysis
- Environmental forensics
- Fingerprint development
- Forensic anthropology
- Forensic facial approximation
- Forensic toxicology
- Glass analysis
- Human performance under the influence of alcohol and drugs
- PCR applications and quality assurance
- Trace elemental analysis of biological samples
- Courtroom persuasion
- Effect of pretrial publicity
- Eyewitness memory
- Eyewitness testimony of children
- Cognitive bias
- Homicide patterns and trends
- Improving witnesses' recall
- International drug money laundering
- Jury decision making
- Jury selection
- Narcotics trafficking
- Substance abuse