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 Project IDENTIFICATION: Developing Accurate Identification Criteria for Hispanic Individuals
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              This awardee has received supplemental funding. This award detail page includes information about both the original award and supplemental awards.
Award Information
Awardee
              Texas State University
Award #
              2008-DN-BX-K464
Funding Category
              Continuation
Location
                    San Marcos, TX
Awardee County
              Hays
Congressional District
              35
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2009
Total funding (to date)
              $151,325
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY 09 Office of Science and Technology Continuations
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2009, $77,583)
A fundamental goal in forensic anthropology is to provide a biological profile for an unknown individual or individuals found in a forensic context. The majority of reference collections used to build identification criteria for the biological profile (age, sex, ancestry, and stature) come from the Terry and Todd anatomical collections, comprised mainly of 19th and 20th century American Black and White individuals. This proposed research will assist in reducing the analysis time dedicated to unidentified individuals of Hispanic origin, so that cases might be processed in a more timely and accurate manner, thereby reducing case backlog. ca/ncf
Supplemental Award 1 (Fiscal Year 2010, $73,742)
The objective of this research is to provide new criteria, within the field of forensic anthropology, for the estimation of sex and ancestry for Hispanic individuals in the U.S., particularly focusing on individuals entering the U.S. via the U.S./Mexico border. The U.S./Mexico border, particularly in Arizona, is chosen because of the large number of forensic anthropological cases generated each year from illegal immigration, and the high rate of positive identifications. The purpose of this continuation request is to seek funding for Year 2 of Project Identification to expand the database containing metric data on positively identified Hispanic individuals in order to develop criteria for accurate estimation of sex and ancestry.
ca/ncf


  
Grant-Funded Publications
        
                      Craniofacial Asymmetry as a Marker of Socioeconomic Status Among Undocumented Mexican Immigrants in the United States
                  Ancestry Estimation in Forensic Anthropology: Geometric Morphometric versus Standard and Nonstandard Interlandmark Distances
                  NIJ and Texas State University-Improving Identification of Mexican Hispanic Remains: New Information Helps Forensic Anthropologists Assess Mexican Hispanic Ancestry and Sex
                  Postcranial Sex Estimation Criteria for Mexican Hispanics
                  Ancestry Assessment Using Random Forest Modeling
                  Project IDENTIFICATION: Developing Accurate Identification Criteria for Hispanics

  
Date Created: September 29, 2009
    
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