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Fingerprint Breakthrough? "Forensic scientists at the University of Leicester, working with Northamptonshire Police, have announced a major breakthrough in crime detection which could lead to hundreds of cold cases being reopened," reports Science Daily. "Dr John Bond, Honorary Fellow at the University of Leicester and Scientific Support Manager at Northamptonshire Police said: 'For the first time we can get prints from people who handled a cartridge before it was fired.'" Could be huge, if it pans out. CSI: Cost Effective? Australian researchers plan to go beyond the anecdotal and look quantitatively into how effective forensic science is. How many crimes does it solve, and at what cost? Liz Porter reports for The Age. Crime and Prison: Doug Berman at SL&P and DoJ's Weekly Accessions List both point us to Spelman, Specifying the Relationship Between Crime and Prisons, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 24(2), June 2008, pp...continue to full post

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