Forensic Science Career Choices: What will it take

Are you someone who has been fascinated with the use of science to catch criminals, or do you have a analytical bent that you feel could be of service to people pursuing the course of justice? If so, you may find that it is time for you to look into chasing a career in forensics. Though forensics can refer to any branch of science that is applied to learn more in a legal setting, you will find that most people will turn to the idea of crime scene investigations. The career of crime scene investigator is seeing a lot of changes, and you might find that this is the career for you. Essentially, when looking at the role of a crime scene invest.......................... READ FULL ARTICLE

Forensic Science Careers are Growing In Demand

by Janice Simpleton With the recent influx and popularity of shows like CSI, Criminal Minds and Dexter, it is easy to see why there is an increased incidence of people who are interested in the forensic sciences, but were you aware that this could turn out to be an extremely rewarding career path? There is a great deal of potential when it comes to the forensic scientists, and the people who find themselves in the careers that are related to such often find them to be very fulfilling in terms of intellectual reward and social merit. Individuals who have experience with the forensic sciences often end up doing work with the police, and t.......................... READ FULL ARTICLE

Forensic Science

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Forensic report weakens Scarlett case

Swabs samples taken from Brit teenager Scarlett Keeling have tested negative for the presence of semen. The forensic report submitted to the Goa police is a setback to the prosecution. This means that the prosecution may have no other forensic evidence against the main accused Samson Dsouza and Placido Carvalho. Both have been accused of rape and murder. .......................... READ FULL ARTICLE

Forensic Readiness Tip 1

Audit Setting in a Windows environment is simple but effective to add supportive information to the evidence gathering procedure .......................... READ FULL ARTICLE

Forensic Fingerprint Fuming

How to polymerize and stabilize a latent fingerprint. Quite useful for fake-fingerprint creation or other forensics purposes. Full instructions at: http://quequero.org/Forensic_Fingerprint_Fuming .......................... READ FULL ARTICLE

Entomología forense – Forensic entomology

El menachil FILMS vuelve a la carga, esta vez con un corto-documental sobre entomología forense. En él se observan una serie de imágenes y tomas captadas por la cámara de Cancho, que vienen a resumir el proceso por el cual los distintos insectos colonizan un cadáver, en este caso el de un lechón que murió a los pocos días de nacer. Con esta grabación, Cancho nos vuelve a demostrar que cine e insectos SÍ son compatibles. Y es que en su anterior trabajo, No money no life (disponible en Youtube), nos demuestra que las orugas aprecian el dinero tanto o más que muchos seres humanos. Reparto:- Rayo (Cerdito)- Lucilia caesar (mosca verd.......................... READ FULL ARTICLE

Forensic Linguistics: Linguist as detective & expert witness

Linguists are frequently asked to help the police and courts when there is a dispute over the authorship of a written text -- suicide note, abusive or threatening letter, email or text message. In this excerpt from his inaugural lecture, Professor Coulthard explains the concepts he used to help identify the authorship of text messages in a recent murder trial. The full lecture is available online at: http://streaming.aston.ac.uk/communications_ram/Inaugral_lecture_malcolm_coultard.asx Aston University is home to the world's first centre for forensic linguistics. Find out more at: www.aston.ac.uk/forensic-linguistics .......................... READ FULL ARTICLE

Forensic Accountant David Malamed-Data Breach

Forensic Accounting Expert David Malamed discusses the risks associated with Social Networking Sites such as MySpace and Facebook. .......................... READ FULL ARTICLE

Jonathan Barnett – WTC7 forensic engineer – REVISITED

Extended version analysing the FRAUD of History Channel's presentation of the issues surrounding WTC7's collapse. "We were surprised that the building [WTC7] collapsed, we being the team that investigated what occurred on that day. There was some damage to the Tower 7 caused by debris that hit it from Tower 1 but the damage was certainly not similar in scope or magnitude to that caused by the aircrafts hitting Towers 1 and 2. Normally when you have a structural failure you carefully go through the debris field looking at each item, photographing every beam as it collapsed and every column where it is on the ground and you pick them up very .......................... READ FULL ARTICLE