Website
https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0883333
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Silent witness: New analytical approaches to advance and enhance the forensic value of human hair. The Australian criminal justice system is under ever-increasing scrutiny with recent threats to national security. Courtroom evidence is expected to carry an objective indication of its value, largely as a result of the success and widespread application of DNA evidence. This is problematic for conventional human hair evidence which has traditionally been presented as the expert opinion of a hair examiner who has conducted a microscopic comparison. A recent wrongful conviction in Canada and an associated Royal Commission has highlighted these problems. A comprehensive new hair examination sequence employing objective techniques will increase the forensic value of human hair, one of the most common evidence types found at crime scenes.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 10-2008
End Date: 12-2011
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $207,762.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Detection And Prevention Of Crime; Security Services | Biological Sciences Not Elsewhere Classified | Criminology | Genetics Not Elsewhere Classified
