Forensic scientists both help solve crimes and aid in exonerating innocent people. They use scientific methods to analyze crime scene evidence and write reports to law enforcement explaining what that ...

The lessons of the FBI failures in microscopic hair and bloodstain pattern analyses are clear.

In a run-of-the-mill methamphetamine case tried in Oregon in October 2007, defense attorneys argued there was insufficient evidence because the prosecution didn't test a crack pipe for DNA. The ...

The Saint Louis University Forensic Science program offers courses with hands-on learning opportunities. FRSC 2600 - Survey of Forensic Science 3 credits Students learn scientific methodology, its ...

Suggested Citation: "Executive Summary." National Research Council. 1996. The Evaluation of Forensic DNA Evidence. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5141. This committee was ...

A free society is dependent on the rule of law which in turn relies on equality of access to justice. The evidence received by this committee points to failings in the use of forensic science in the ...

Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Olugbenga Adepoju, has described the ongoing two-day Forensic and Fraud Investigation Training for police officers as a critical component of the reform agenda of ...

Crime Scene Technician, Criminalist, Forensic Scientist, Crime Scene Investigator, Evidence Technician, Crime Scene Analyst, Latent Print Examiner, Forensic Science Examiner, Forensic Specialist, ...

In the early 1990s, crime-loving television audiences could choose mainly between cozy, fictional detective series such as ...

British scientists played a major role in developing key technologies and techniques for global legal systems. These tools – such as fingerprint and DNA analysis – reveal relationships between ...

The Firearms Examination Unit houses the guns it collects from crimes inside the city’s department of forensics. (WTOP/Megan Cloherty) Federal prosecutors in D.C. have opened a sweeping audit into the ...