Forensic profiling involves building a profile of an offender’s lifestyle based on trace evidence left at a crime scene. Chemicals left on persons’ skin from food, beauty products, hygiene products, ...

This means there is a need to develop new analytical techniques to enrich forensic science subfields like toxicology, trace evidence, and chemistry. All of these fields work together to create a ...

Forensic science has been subject to criticism on a number of occasions. In 2009, the National Academy of Sciences produced a report criticizing the state of forensic science. Since then, much work ...

After recent criticism in the US and the UK, forensic science is now coming under attack in Australia. Several recent reports have detailed concerns that innocent people have been jailed because of ...

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This past April, the FBI made an admission that was nothing short of catastrophic for the field of forensic science. In an unprecedented display of repentance, the Bureau announced that, for years, ...