Announcements, News and Events
Advisory Members Wanted!
While many of the initial SWGANTH documents have been published, many are still in draft form or are drafts-in-progress. Anyone interested in working on these draft documents is encouraged to request to serve as an Advisory Member on these committees. Moreover, as the SWGANTH completes its initial charge of identifying Best Practices for our discipline, we would like to expand our charter to include the development of minimum standards (see Home page). It is thus anticipated that some committees may eventually need to be repopulated. If you wish to serve on any of these committees, please email vice-chair@swganth.org.
Translation of Guidelines
Los documentos ya están disponibles en español.
Many of the published and draft guidelines are now available in Spanish. Elsa Jaramillo Schloss, an interpreter for the International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) - Colombia (Bogotá) provided the translations. Thank you, Elsa! SWGANTH may also be working with the International Committee of the Red Cross to translate final documents into Russian, French and Arabic.
Conferences, Training and Professional Development
The SOFA Forensic Anthropology Bibliography
The Society of Forensic Anthropologists (SOFA) has created a bibliography that is an attempt at a comprehensive listing of books, journal articles and other publications related to the theory and practice of forensic anthropology and allied subjects. Topics covered include but are not limited to the biological profile, human identification, anthropometrics, statistics, DNA recovery, population biology, mass disaster response and the history of forensic anthropology. Keywords were imported from the original sources along with field data such as Title, Author, Pub Name, Pub Date, etc. Each reference is also a hyperlink to the original website from which the entry was generated. As of April 25, 2011, there are approximately 3500 references in the bibliography.
Several of the primary sources that were searched are listed below. A few duplicates, import errors and some irrelevant articles have slipped in from the mass importing process which are being fixed as time allows. Early versions of the bibliography were organized by interns with the NYC Office of Chief Medical Examiner and the National Museum of Health and Medicine. Please send any additions or errors to Brian Spatola (Brian.Spatola@us.army.mil).
Primary Sources for imports:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/
http://www.jstor.org/
http://www.sciencedirect.com/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
http://www.amazon.com/
Instructions for using the SOFA Forensic Anthropology Bibliography:
1. Become a member of Zotero at:
www.zotero.org
2. Download the helper application which works only with the Firefox browser: www.zotero.org/download/zotero-2.0.3.xpi
3. Search the bibliography at the following link:
www.zotero.org/groups/society_of_forenisc_anthropologists_sofa_-_forensic_anthropology_bibliography
Several of the primary sources that were searched are listed below. A few duplicates, import errors and some irrelevant articles have slipped in from the mass importing process which are being fixed as time allows. Early versions of the bibliography were organized by interns with the NYC Office of Chief Medical Examiner and the National Museum of Health and Medicine. Please send any additions or errors to Brian Spatola (Brian.Spatola@us.army.mil).
Primary Sources for imports:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/
http://www.jstor.org/
http://www.sciencedirect.com/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
http://www.amazon.com/
Instructions for using the SOFA Forensic Anthropology Bibliography:
1. Become a member of Zotero at:
www.zotero.org
2. Download the helper application which works only with the Firefox browser: www.zotero.org/download/zotero-2.0.3.xpi
3. Search the bibliography at the following link:
www.zotero.org/groups/society_of_forenisc_anthropologists_sofa_-_forensic_anthropology_bibliography
Scientific Working Groups
Adams DE, Lothridge KL. Scientific Working Groups. Forensic Science Communications 2000;2(3). www.fbi.gov/hq/lab/fsc/backissu/july2000/swgroups.htm
FBI Laboratory SWG overview
SWGDAM - DNA Analysis Methods
SWGDE - Digital Evidence
SWGDOC - Questioned Documents
SWGDOG - Dog and Orthogonal Detector Guidelines
SWGDRUG - Analysis of Siezed Drugs
SWGDVI - Disaster Victim Identification
SWGFEX - Fire and Explosions
SWGFAST - Latent Fingerprints
SWGGUN - Firearms and Toolmarks
SWGIT - Imaging Technologies
SWGMAT - Materials Analysis
SWGMDI - Medicolegal Death Investigation
SWGSTAIN - Bloodstain Pattern Analysis
SWGTOX - Toxicology
SWGTREAD - Shoeprint and Tire Tread Evidence
FISWG - Facial Identification
FBI Laboratory SWG overview
SWGDAM - DNA Analysis Methods
SWGDE - Digital Evidence
SWGDOC - Questioned Documents
SWGDOG - Dog and Orthogonal Detector Guidelines
SWGDRUG - Analysis of Siezed Drugs
SWGDVI - Disaster Victim Identification
SWGFEX - Fire and Explosions
SWGFAST - Latent Fingerprints
SWGGUN - Firearms and Toolmarks
SWGIT - Imaging Technologies
SWGMAT - Materials Analysis
SWGMDI - Medicolegal Death Investigation
SWGSTAIN - Bloodstain Pattern Analysis
SWGTOX - Toxicology
SWGTREAD - Shoeprint and Tire Tread Evidence
FISWG - Facial Identification
Related Links
American Academy of Forensic Sciences
www.aafs.org
International Association for Identification
www.theiai.org
American Board of Forensic Anthropology
www.theabfa.org
NamUs - National Missing and Unidentified Persons System
www.namus.gov
American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors/Laboratory Accreditation Board - International
http://www.ascld-lab.org/international/indexinternational.html
NAS Report on Strengthening Forensic Sciences in the United States: A Path Forward http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/228091.pdf
Draft Criminal Justice and Forensic Science Reform Act http://aafs.org/sites/default/files/pdf/DraftCriminalJusticeAndFSReformAct12-22-10.pdf
www.aafs.org
International Association for Identification
www.theiai.org
American Board of Forensic Anthropology
www.theabfa.org
NamUs - National Missing and Unidentified Persons System
www.namus.gov
American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors/Laboratory Accreditation Board - International
http://www.ascld-lab.org/international/indexinternational.html
NAS Report on Strengthening Forensic Sciences in the United States: A Path Forward http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/228091.pdf
Draft Criminal Justice and Forensic Science Reform Act http://aafs.org/sites/default/files/pdf/DraftCriminalJusticeAndFSReformAct12-22-10.pdf
