[USA] Taking the Initiative: Practitioners Who Perform Frontline Research
NIJ Journal No. 258 • October 2007
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/journals/258/frontline-research.html
Lois A. Tully
"In the past, the line between practitioners who work in a crime laboratory and researchers who work in a university lab or technology firm was always fairly bright. That line has begun to blur, however, as more and more practitioners take the initiative to perform inhouse research that leads to new forensic tools and technologies."