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Journal article
Responding to the American Academy of Forensic Sciences vision, mission, and values statements: Comments, revisions, and proposed actions
2021
Abstract
We wish to begin a dialogue within the forensic science community surrounding the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) vision, mission, and values statements, recently updated by the AAFS Board of Directors (BoD), Academy staff, and Springboard International. Summaries of the statements are available on the AAFS website, and more detailed information was emailed to members as an AAFS News Alert on March 31, 2021 from the AAFS president Carl McClary. We believe that the statements, as currently written, do not provide meaningful guidance about the Academy’s vision and mission, nor do they adequately describe the values of the forensic scientists the Academy serves. Our authorship includes Anthropology Section student affiliates, trainee affiliates, and fellows, with AAFS membership ranging from years to decades. We are active participants in this organization, and we are committed to serving and improving it. It is our hope that the current AAFS leadership, in keeping with President McClary’s theme of “A Responsive Academy,” considers our critique in the productive spirit in which it is intended, potentially responding by making positive changes to these statements that will enable them to better serve as guiding principles for our practitioner community. We address aspects of the vision, mission, and values statements in turn. The text of these statements is presented in italicized quotes below[1].
Details
- Title
- Responding to the American Academy of Forensic Sciences vision, mission, and values statements
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ireland Ltd.; Ireland
- Copyright
- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license
- Identifiers
- 99380090784906600
- Academic Unit
- College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities; Anthropology
- Language
- English