Criminal Forensics - Maryland, Virginia, Washington, DC
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Criminal forensics may the category of forensics that most of you are familiar with and is an important part of investigative work (link to home page). If you have ever watched a TV detective show, it’s likely that one form of criminal forensics or another was featured. The word forensics, itself, simply means connected with, pertaining to, or used in courts of law. Criminal forensics obviously pertains to criminal cases.
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What is criminal forensics
Criminal forensics is the application of a number of different sciences to answer legal questions that arise in a criminal investigation and trial.
Criminal forensics can include:
- Forensic accounting is the study and interpretation of accounting information. Forensic accounting is the application of accounting principles, theories, and disciplines to facts or hypotheses at issue in a legal dispute, and encompasses every branch of accounting knowledge.
- Forensic botany
- Forensic chemistry
- Forensic dactyloscopy (fingerprints)
- Forensic document examination generally deals with disputed documents. It answers question arising from those documents. It uses a variety of scientific processes and methods. The investigation often involves a comparison of the documents or components of the documents with known standards.
- Digital Forensics
- Forensic DNA analysis
- Forensic engineering can analyze structures and products relating to their failure or the damage they caused.
- Forensic linguistics
- Forensic psychology
- Forensic serology
- Forensic video analysis examines, compares, and evaluates video in legal matters.
- Mobile device forensics scientifically examines evidence found in mobile devices.
- Ballistics
- Ballistic fingerprinting
- Forensic footwear evidence
- Vein matching is the analysis of patterns of blood vessels for biometric identification.
As you can see, criminal forensics can be very complex and varied. As a defendant in a criminal case, individuals may want their own criminal forensic experts to uncover evidence and to uncover mistakes possibly made by the prosecution’s forensic experts. The reality is that collected evidence is rarely as complete or even well done as you see it on TV.
Controversies
Controversies do arise revolving around the application of forensics to criminal cases. For example, no one has ever proved and probably cannot prove that no two fingerprints are alike.
Despites any controversies, forensic evidence is a powerful and important element in court cases.
Forensic science
Forensic science assists all parties in a criminal or civil case to find out the details of a crime or dispute and can help determine guilt, innocence, culpability, or liability.
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