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Forensics

• AKA Criminalistics.

• Branch of study that applies to scientific methods to criminal and civil law.

• Most often in the context of criminal investigation and subject to the rules of evidence admissibility and criminal procedure.

Forensic Science

Application of scientific knowledge and methodologies to legal matters, such as the examination of potential courtroom evidence.

All methods of evidence collection

• Trace evidence examination

• Hair

• Show prints

• Fingerprint

• Ballistics analysis

• Blood splatter

• (Forensics molecular biology)

• DNA analysis

• Forensics toxicology

• Digital evidence

Forensic careers

• Forensic pathology (These are people like medical examiners and other professionals who oversee autopsies and other types of forensic tests)

• Forensic nursing

• Forensic psychiatry

• Forensic entomology

• Forensic engineering