Have you ever watched the series CSI? These people work in a laboratory to find the killers by looking for evidence in blood and fingerprints and any traces left at the crime scene.
This is forensic science.
- Watch the video and see if you can solve the mystery.
Forensic Science is important to gather information and leads which the lawyer can use for or against the accused.
There are different samples that will be collected from the crime scene. These can be fingerprints and gunshot residue and any for of DNA like hair and blood and fluids from the body. All these samples are carefully collected and then taken to the laboratory to be analysed.
While some forensic tests can be completed in as little as an hour, others may take months. There are a large range of specialist fields in forensics including forensic pathology, forensic toxicology, forensic anthropology, forensic chemistry, DNA analysis, forensic entomology, computational forensics and more.
- Choose any one of the above mentioned fields in forensics and find out more about what it entails and what you can learn from it, what you have to do to be able to work in that field etc.
- Which one of these fields will you specialize in if you study insects found in and around the body, which you can use to determine the time of death?
- Which of these fields will study the effect that drugs or poison has on the human body?
Not one person's fingerprints are the same as another, so fingerprints can help a lot in determining who was the person that were at the scene. Fingerprints have different loops and lines that make each one unique and which the forensic scientist can use to match to the right person.
TV shows with forensic science is very popular and people find it interesting to watch how a crime can be solved with the help of science. Even if it is not always that easy in real life, forensics sure has made it easier to catch the criminals.
Nobody can fight against forensic proof.
