Rags-against-riches case highlights technology's pitfalls If you trust in the technology of DNA matching, it was an impeccable case: ...

Ripple effects bias parties, contaminate "independent" evidence  Michael Crowe , age 14, falsely confessing to murdering his...

The Journal of Forensic Sciences , published by the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, is offering free access to select articles, inclu...

A special section of the Association for Psychological Science's journal, Perspectives on Psychological Science , is dedicated to contr...

Perhaps the single most compelling exemplar of problems with the U.S. death penalty is the case of Cameron Willingham of Texas. Willingham, ...

Pierce Martin of the new site, Forensic Science , just sent me this cool infographic he made about the CSI Effect, which relates to my recen...

Since introduced by Time magazine in 2002, the "CSI Effect" has become a cultural staple, imbued with the imprimatur of fact. The...

The October issue of Criminal Justice and Behavio r is a special issue on Pseudoscientific Policing Practices and Beliefs . There are some g...

The major news outlets are running all kinds of stories relevant to forensic psychology. Here is a sampling. CSI counterpoint The fallabilit...

Crime dramas saturate network television. Most focus on science and technology, blending reality and fiction to give viewers unrealistic bel...

On CSI, the scientific evidence never lies. In the real world, the truth is far less clearcut. In the wake of a series of highly publicized ...

Louise Reynolds of Ontario was incarcerated for three years for stabbing her 7-year-old daughter more than 80 times with a pair of scissors...

The American Bar Association today released findings of a three-year study on state death penalty systems and called for a nationwide morat...

Racial and ethical implications debated DNA databases are great, aren't they? In the last few years, we've heard many a case of an ...

Is forensic odontologist putting innocent people on death row? With our increasingly crime-centered culture comes the "CSI Syndrom...