Are professionals better at assessing the evidential strength of different types of forensic conclusions compared to students? In an online questionnaire 96 crime investigation and law students, and 269 crime investigation and legal professionals assessed three fingerprint examination reports. All reports …

Forensic and behavioural science are often seen as two different disciplines. However, there is a growing realization that the two disciplines should be more strongly integrated. Incorporating psychological theories on human behaviour in forensic science could help solving investigative problems, especially …

Nederland heeft een snelle, stabiele en betrouwbare digitale infrastructuur, waar zowel nationaal als internationaal veelvuldig gebruik van wordt gemaakt. Als gevolg hiervan voltrekken zich ook illegale activiteiten op Nederlandse servers, of worden deze (on)bewust gefaciliteerd door in Nederland gevestigde …

Dissertation concerning the evaluation of fingermarks given activity level propositions to determine what fingermarks reveal about activities.

Bayesian networks have shown to be a useful tool for the evaluation of forensic findings given activity level propositions. In this paper, we demonstrate how case specific experiments can be used to assign probabilities to the states of the nodes of a Bayesian network for the evaluation of fingermarks …

Jaarlijks stellen forensisch rechercheurs van de politie ongeveer 27.000 biologische sporen veilig die ze doorsturen naar het Nederlands Forensisch Instituut (NFI) voor DNA-onderzoek (Kruize & Gruter2018). Deze onderzoeken worden aangevraagd vanuit de verwachtingdat dit DNA-onderzoek kan bijdragen aan …

fingerprints are a commonly exploited type of evidence and can be crucial in a criminal investigation. The process of individualization or exclusion of a donor relies on the comparison of ridge detail characteristics between a fingermark, found at a crime scene, and reference fingerprints, collected …

A previous paper published in this journal proposed a model for evaluating the location of fingermarks on two-dimensional items (de Ronde, van Aken, de Puit and de Poot (2019)). In this paper, we apply the proposed model to a dataset consisting of letters to test whether the activity of writing a letter …

Forensic reports use various types of conclusions, such as a categorical (CAT) conclusion or a likelihood ratio (LR). In order to correctly assess the evidence, users of forensic reports need to understand the conclusion and its evidential strength. The aim of this paper is to study the interpretation …