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Title: ORNL`s war on crime, technically speaking

Journal Article · · Oak Ridge National Laboratory Review
OSTI ID:569330

This paper describes research being carried out by the Center for Applied Science and Technology for Law Enforcement (CASTLE), at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This program works on projects which are solvable, affordable, and outside the scope of the private sector. Examples are presented of work related to: the lifetime of childrens fingerprints compared to adults; the development of ways of providing cooler body armor; digital enhancement technology applied to security-camera images from crime scenes; victim identification by skeletal reconstruction for use by forensic anthropologists.

OSTI ID:
569330
Journal Information:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Review, Vol. 29, Issue 3-4; Other Information: PBD: 1996
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English