Professional Development
Conferences / Events
- 60th annual meeting of American Academy of Forensic Sciences
February 18-23, Washington, D.C
- Off The Witness Stand: conference on using psychology in the practice of justice.
- A New Legal Architecture: Litigating Eyewitness Identification Cases in the 21st Century, New York, New York, March 14-15, 2008.
- Forensic Science Training Platform for Judges, in cooperation with the Advanced Science and Technology Adjudicative Resource initiative, New York, October, 2008.
Research
- The Center, in collaboration with the American Judicature Society, The Police Foundation and the Innocence Project has developed and supervised field studies of proposed eyewitness identification procedure modernizations, and marshaled “Blue Ribbon” panels to critique ongoing field research.
Post-event Evaluations
- The Center is launching an exploratory Arson Screening Project, to assess the impact of decades of false fire “science” on arson determinations and convictions.
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A Short Course in Crime Scene Analysis for Trial Lawyers
in Criminal Cases
September 17-18, 2009
Cohosted with the Crime Scene Academy, and sponsored in conjunction with
The Legal Aid Society of New York,
The Bronx Defenders,
The New York Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
and
The Northwestern University School of Law.
This course is being held at
Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
Forensic Biology Building
421 East 26th Street
New York, NY
National Public Radio's "On Point"
The Center will be convening scientists and criminal justice practitioners of a wide-ranging discussion of the practical impact of the National Academy of Science's recent analysis of the state of forensice science and its future. The issue is discussed by the Center Director and others on National Public Radio.
Center Wins Grant for Ground-Breaking Arson Screening Program
The Center has won a grant of $248,000 from the JEHT Foundation for an innovative Arson Screening Project, designed to assess the damage done by generations of “bad science” arson convictions. The Arson Screening Project will be the first program to address systematically the roles played by improved science in revealing mistaken convictions in a non-DNA context.
Dr. Nicholas Petraco
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