Questioned Documents: Research and Development Projects
Award Abstracts
View the abstracts for all forensic research and development awards:
The following table — Questioned Document Research and Development Awards, 2004–2010 — shows awards made by NIJ for research and development projects on questioned documents.
Both ongoing and completed projects are included. Project titles for completed awards are linked to the substantive report submitted to NIJ at the completion of the project if available.
| Project Title (linked to final report if available) | Awardee | Award Number | Amount[1] |
|---|---|---|---|
| Statistical Examination of Handwriting Characteristics Using Automated Tools | Research Foundation of SUNY | 2010-DN-BX-K037 | $425,077 |
| NIST/NIJ Expert Working Group on Human Factors in Question Document Analysis | NIST Office of Law Enforcement Standards | 2010-DN-R-7121 | $200,000 |
| Frequency Occurrence of Handwriting and Hand-Printing Characteristics | University of Central Florida | 2010-DN-BX-K273 | $498,659 |
| Development of Individual Handwriting Characteristics in 1,800 Students: Statistical Analysis and Likelihood Ratios That Emerge Over An Extended Period of Time. | Minnesota Department of Public Safety | 2010-DN-BX-K212 | $399,172 |
| Validity, Reliability, Accuracy, and Bias in Forensic Signature Identification | Kentucky State University | 2010-DN-BX-K271 | $466,710 |
| Forensic Document Analysis System (pdf, 17 pages) | CedarTech, Inc. | 2006-DN-BX-K025 | $153,242 |
| Method Development for Objective Physical Matching: Meeting Daubert | U.S. Department of Defense, Technical Support Working Group | 2005-IJ-R-051 | $25,000 |
| Quantitative Assessment of the Discriminatory Power of Handwriting (pdf, 46 pages) | Research Foundation of the State University of New York | 2004-IJ-CX-K050 | $891,458 |
[1] Award amounts include original and supplemental funding.
Date Modified: March 6, 2012
