American Academy of Forensic Sciences

computers, contain a plethora of information about its owner. During a forensic investigation, the investigator will happen upon many pieces of information that could be a personal secret, trade secret, or otherwise sensitive information. They will then have to determine the course of their actions based on the information that they come across. Digital devices contain a vast amount of information, much of which is irrelevant to a forensic investigation. In order for an investigator to perform…

burglary, assault, homicide. In most cases it’s sometimes rare to find a gun left at the scene. Most times they person who had the gun either ditch it someplace else or it’s never found. If perhaps a firearm was found on the crime scene then forensic technicians will dust for prints, hairs, fibers, or even blood. They have to handle the firearms with care because it’s dangerous and it has to be someone who have experience with the guns. While marking the crime scene, they have to mark the…

Preserving and maintaining evidence in a forensic lab that was collected at a scene is crucial when conducting an investigation. A device that is suspected to contain digital evidence should be packaged in a proper way; it should be packaged based on sizes and sensitivity. Collection process should be documented by using photograph or video camera at the scene. Storage drives should be well labelled to indicated details such as the date, time and location where it was collected and the nature of…

outgoing or if they are quite and withdrawn. If the crime was committed by more than one person they can determine which of them is dominate unsub and which one does as the other wishes. With forensic psychology is a crossroad between psychology and the criminal justice system. Since DNA testing, criminal forensics have come a long…

After the advancement of tools became a major step in the Victorian era, the method of dissecting bodies for criminal work began to be explored. Sherlock was known for working with dead bodies and working with cadavers, yet he was not the first to adopt this method of crime work. Before Sherlock's method became known, Giovanni Battista Morgagni changed the way the idea of dissecting bodies for criminal work purposes would be looked at (Wagner, 4). Before Morgagni's idea came to be, the thought…

Why Forensic Pathology? Many have disputed the importance of going to college, many say that college is a waste of time, many say that college is the only option for their families. High school students see college as the only way to be successful in their lives, while on the other hand people believe that there are too many students in college. They believe that most students that do not score above the 90th percentile are “too dumb” to go to college, that it is too stressful of an environment…

The roots of forensic lead to the Roman era when criminal charges implied public presentation of the case in the Forum. Convicted person for a criminal offense and the applicant, argued publicly about the case, and the person with better arguments and presentation, prevails. Hence the origin of the name forensics, from the Latin word forēnsis which means “in the Forum”. Today, forensic means using full range of science to provide answers to questions of legal interest, relating to criminal or…

The misuse of forensic science and the problems associated with it. How some forensic discipline cannot provide accurate results, the example of a bite or the identification of shoe treads in the citing of evidence is most compelling where the identification and analysis are very unreliable. Besides, the testimonies that amplify the relationship between the evidence and the crime scene and the evidence obtained from an individual that portrays that the suspect is the source of evidence. The most…

of structure function and diseases of human hair which is also known as hair analysis. The significance of analyzing hair or fiber was acknowledged in the early phases of forensic science. In France the year of 1857 the world was introduced to one of the first extremely careful, crime-solving, science-based criminological science reports produced involving the scientific study of hair introducing the idea of hair and fiber analysis. Hair analysis has played a big part in courts since the…

to identify a victim, for example, if only the teeth and bones were left it are important to find out who the person was by using the methods of anthropology, ontology and DNA (Fisher, 2012 p.128) Anthropology is a way for scientist that work in forensics. It is a way to see what happened to a body including injuries or disease. In addition, will determine the sex and age of the deceased person by using various methods Before any of the anthropology would begin would be to…