PMID- 25460106
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20151112
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 1872-6283 (Electronic)
IS  - 0379-0738 (Linking)
VI  - 246
DP  - 2015 Jan
TI  - The use of methylamphetamine chemical profiling in an intelligence-led 
      perspective and the observation of inhomogeneity within seizures.
PG  - 55-64
LID - S0379-0738(14)00460-5 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.forsciint.2014.10.041 [doi]
AB  - This study focuses on methylamphetamine (MA) seizures made by the Australian 
      Federal Police (AFP) to investigate the use of chemical profiling in an 
      intelligence perspective. Correlation coefficients were used to obtain a 
      similarity degree between a population of linked samples and a population of 
      unlinked samples. Although it was demonstrated that a general framework can be 
      followed for the use of any forensic case data in an intelligence-led 
      perspective, threshold values have to be re-evaluated for each type of illicit 
      drug investigated. Unlike the results obtained in a previous study on 
      3,4-methylenedioxymethylamphetamine (MDMA) seizures, chemical profiles of MA 
      samples coming from the same seizure showed relative inhomogeneity, limiting 
      their ability to link seizures. Different hypotheses were investigated to obtain 
      a better understanding of this inhomogeneity although no trend was observed. 
      These findings raise an interesting discussion in regards to the homogeneity and 
      representativeness of illicit drug seizures (for intelligence purposes). Further, 
      it also provides some grounds to discuss the initial hypotheses and assumptions 
      that most forensic science studies are based on.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2014 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Morelato, Marie
AU  - Morelato M
AD  - Centre for Forensic Science, University of Technology, Sydney, Broadway, NSW, 
      Australia.
FAU - Beavis, Alison
AU  - Beavis A
AD  - Centre for Forensic Science, University of Technology, Sydney, Broadway, NSW, 
      Australia.
FAU - Tahtouh, Mark
AU  - Tahtouh M
AD  - Forensics, Australian Federal Police, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
FAU - Ribaux, Olivier
AU  - Ribaux O
AD  - Ecole des Sciences Criminelles, Universite de Lausanne, Lausanne-Dorigny, 
      Switzerland.
FAU - Kirkbride, K Paul
AU  - Kirkbride KP
AD  - School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Flinders University, Bedford Park, 
      South Australia, Australia.
FAU - Roux, Claude
AU  - Roux C
AD  - Centre for Forensic Science, University of Technology, Sydney, Broadway, NSW, 
      Australia. Electronic address: Claude.Roux@uts.edu.au.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20141104
PL  - Ireland
TA  - Forensic Sci Int
JT  - Forensic science international
JID - 7902034
RN  - 0 (Central Nervous System Stimulants)
RN  - 0 (Illicit Drugs)
RN  - 44RAL3456C (Methamphetamine)
SB  - IM
MH  - Australia
MH  - Central Nervous System Stimulants/*chemistry
MH  - Chromatography/methods
MH  - Drug Contamination
MH  - Drug and Narcotic Control
MH  - Humans
MH  - Illicit Drugs/*chemistry
MH  - Methamphetamine/*chemistry
MH  - Retrospective Studies
MH  - Spectrum Analysis/methods
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Forensic intelligence
OT  - Illicit drug profiling
OT  - Methylamphetamine
OT  - Representativeness
OT  - Seizure homogeneity
EDAT- 2014/12/03 06:00
MHDA- 2015/11/13 06:00
CRDT- 2014/12/03 06:00
PHST- 2014/08/14 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2014/10/21 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2014/10/28 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2014/12/03 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/12/03 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/11/13 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0379-0738(14)00460-5 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.forsciint.2014.10.041 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Forensic Sci Int. 2015 Jan;246:55-64. doi: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2014.10.041. Epub 
      2014 Nov 4.