PW Allen Award

The PW Allen award is presented to the most meritorious paper published in Science & Justice each year.

The PW Allen Award is given in memory of Phillip W Allen. Phillip W Allen was Vice President of the Society from 1976-1978. Phillip was instrumental in bringing to market the first micro cameras. These were first used by the Metropolitan Police in the Spaghetti House Seige in the late 70's. The company continues to manufacture and sell a range of anti-terrorism equipment. They include explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) bomb search and detection; bomb technician tools; and Electronic Counter Measures (ECM) equipment used to stop remote detonation of bombs.

Description

Awarded annually to the best or most meritorious research paper published in the Society’s Journal in the preceding year as decided by the Council of the Society.

Criteria

The award winner is an “Editor’s choice” as chosen by the Honorary Editor of the Society’s Journal and ratified by the Council of the Society. The “Editor’s choice” is chosen from research publications published in Science and Justice within a given year considered using the following criteria: 

• Impact of the work on forensic science
• Novelty of the research
• Quality of the science

The Award

For CSFS non-members the award is in the form of one year’s Affiliate membership of CSFS.

For CSFS members the award is in the form of either one year's gratis on their membership subscription or a voucher to the same value against attendance at a CSFS event.

Council members who are authors or co-authors of eligible papers should be recused from the ratification process.

The following papers received the Society's PW Allen Award:

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TITLE OF PAPER