Matthew J. Hickman, Ph.D., Joseph L. Peterson
February 23, 2005 NCJ 207205
Reports on the organization, functions, budget and expenditures, staffing, workload, and forensic backlog in the Nation's more than 350 publicly funded crime labs. Additional topics included in this report examine contracting with external laboratories, quality control, training and research conducted by public forensic laboratories. The report compliments earlier data collections and statistical reports from BJS documenting similar issues in forensic DNA laboratories.
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