Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Forensic Footwear Round-up


by blogger jgl

Our first email. From a forensic science student...

I have an English course that requires me to engage in a blog conversation and use the information gathered as a source in a research paper. My proposed topic deals with footwear impressions and how the environment can affect this type of evidence.

I understand this is a lot to ask but I would like to make a request for a blog post. I was wondering if you could educate me on what the new techniques are for casting footwear impressions in snow. Any help you or your blogger colleagues can give will be greatly appreciated.

I figure a couple links might help out. If anyone has other good ones, please post it in the comments section.

SWGTREAD looks like a relatively new scientific working group for impression evidence. This is a good. I'm not sure if there was any official or semi-official organization for impression examiners. Obviously, for an area that relies heavily on the examiners *interpretation* of the evidence, sharing and trying to develop standardized methods is necessary.

Here are a couple links to pdf files of what looks to be a Journal of Forensic Identification publication (i'm not sure who is hosting the files).
Lab Collection & Field Collection

Neat site from footprint investigators in the Maryland area - C.A.S.T.

Concerning shoeprints in snow, who better to go to than a distributor who is trying to sell a product! - Snow Print Wax

And how about a link to a numbskulled professor's powerpoint?

There we go. A lot of information is all over the place. Does anyone think it would be useful/possible to have sections of AAFS work up some web pages containing information about the field just as a service to the public? Or just have a team that contributes to the information on wikipedia (and babysits it for accuracy)?

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think it would be very useful to have the AAFS create a site for the public. Forensic information also needs to be published in Laymens terms so that come testifying time all jurors understand the importance of the evidence.

I also want to say thank you for acting upon my request for information. You have been a tremendous help.

--Melissa

UAB MSFS Program said...

thanks for participating melissa. I think providing the public with some "certified" information would be a good think. Like most things on the web, information is spread out all over the place, often hard to find, and the reliability can be questionable.

-jgl

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