Forensic science

Forensic Science was never something I saw myself loving, let alone wanting to do as a career. It wasn’t even a thing to me until my senior year of high school. I’ve always wanted to be a music teacher because I love music and the ways it can change people, but that all changed in the middle of my senior year when I fell in love with Forensics. I want to be a Forensic Scientist because I want to change people’s lives and the way the world looks at science when it comes to investigating and…

PhD in Forensic Science Summary: This article provides information about the PhD in Forensic Science. Forensic science is an advanced degree that works with law enforcement to secure firm prosecutions. Forensic scientist work with evidence and use advanced scientific methods to analyze and determine information from that evidence. Forensic science is science in the service of the law. Common techniques used by forensic scientists are: • DNA profiling • Ballistics • Fingerprint analysis •…

Forensic Science has become a very popularized topic due to television shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Forensic Science is when professionals use scientific means to analyze physical crime evidence. However, forensic science has been a part of every process to solving a case and its been around for a long time so many of the old techniques are still used today. Over the years, forensic science has helped reform law enforcement. The top five colleges that offer forensic science as a…

discipline of forensic science has been under fire for quite some time now, and one can say that it is completely justified. Fraudulent and incompetent analysts, such as Annie Dookhan, have performed investigations in flawed crime labs, like that of the Baltimore crime lab, and through this process, have imprisoned the innocent, just as Cameron T. Willingham was falsely convicted. Issues occurred in all of these instances that allowed for the devaluing of the field of forensic science. If a…

Have you ever wondered what Forensic Science is all about or even wondered about the differences forensics has to offer? Well, let’s start with the word forensic. Forensic is defined by Black’s Law dictionary as “belonging to courts of justice”. Forensic Science is the application of scientific knowledge to legal problems. It is also the scientific method of gathering and examining information about the past, they are used in the court of law. Science of anatomy and problem solving. There are…

Forensic science needs many improvements to move the practice forward. The National Academy of Sciences forensic committee has expressed recommendations for forensic science in the Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward paper, that will be summarized through this paper (National Research Council, 2009). The goal was to assess the present and future resources needed, recommendations to maximize the use of techniques, support best guidelines and practices, ensure…

“On television and in the movies, forensic scientists interrogate witnesses, search crime scenes, and sometimes aided only by a microscope, uncover the one piece of evidence that can break a case wide open,” however, that is nowhere near the reality of forensic science (Williams 1). Forensic scientists often spend long days in the crime lab testing samples they can also frequently encounter unpleasant working conditions and face misconceptions from both the public and law enforcement…

Forensic Analysis: Art or Science? Forensic analysis (often referred to as forensic science) is the application of science to legal matters and crime solving chemistry. There are many issues regarding this “science,” such as whether it is a “science” at all. Forensic analysis is more of an art than a science. There are many scientific methods and procedures involved with forensic analysis, but with the somewhat large possibility of human error affecting the results, and considering the…

Forensic applies to courts or the judicial system, combine that with science and forensic science mean applying scientific methods and processes to solving crime. Forensic Science deals with the application of the knowledge and methodology of various disciplines of science to legal matters. It involves the use of multiple disciplines such as physics, chemistry, biology, computer science and engineering for evidence analysis. For instance, physics is used to understand the pattern of a blood…

The interest in forensic science started when I was in middle school. Originally when my father constantly had crime shows on t.v., I was annoyed and uninterested in the shows. After a while though I decided to just watch the show, and the more I did that, the more I enjoyed the shows. My favorite at the time was the show NCIS. The specific person that got me interested in forensic science was Abby Sciuto from the same show, NCIS. To be a forensic scientist, you need to have a skill set…