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- This article deals with forensic science, used in legal proceedings. For forensics in public speaking, see Debate and Individual events.
Forensic science (often shortened to forensics) is the application of a broad spectrum of sciences to answer questions of interest to the legal system. This may be in relation to a crime or to a civil action. The use of the term "forensics" in place of "forensic science" could be considered incorrect; the term "forensic" is effectively a synonym for "legal" or "related to courts" (from Latin, it means "before the forum"). However, it is now so closely associated with the scientific field that many dictionaries include the meaning given here.
Applications and subdivisions
Criminalistics is the application of various sciences to answer questions relating to examination and comparison of biological evidence, trace evidence, impression evidence (such as fingerprints, shoeprints, and tire tracks), controlled substances, firearms, and other evidence in criminal investigations. Typically, evidence is processed in a crime lab. Some of the forensic science disciplines are: More on [ Forensics ]
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Australian Institute of Criminology - The Australian Institute of Criminology site is the criminal justice research agency of the Australian government, and contains forensic research publications for download.
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Computer Forensics World - An interactive, vendor independent, portal covering all aspects of computer forensics and investigative techniques.
Meta Description: [ The Community for Computer Forensics Professionals ]
Crime-historian and Storyteller - List of programs on criminal history, folklore of crime, forensic science, with details of next public address by E. J. Wagner at the Museum of Long Island Natural Sciences at Stony Brook, NY.
Meta Description: [ Crime Historian - Storyteller home page ]
Forensic Evidence - List of articles and newsletter on law and public policy, intended for lawyers, forensic scientists, public officials and tutors worldwide.
Meta Description: [ An information center in forensic science, law and public policy for lawyers, forensic scientists, educators, and public officials ]
Forensic Geology - The use of geology and soil science in criminal and civil matters. The science is described and references are provided along with the author's personal and contact information in Missoula, MT.
Forensic Science Central - Beginners' information, including message board.
Forensic Science Resources - The Tennessee Criminal Law Defense Resources link site for forensic science.
Meta Description: [ An extensive bibliography of forensic science resources indexed by physical, bio/life, and behavioral sciences in addition to categorized links to the best of the Net's forensic science sites. ]
Forensics.ca - Various resources with global content from Canada.
Human Identification E-Symposium - International web conference allowing live and archived presentations by experts.
Meta Description: [ Hosted by the Forensic Institute, the Human Identification e-Symposium is the foremost forensic science web conference with world-renowned experts holding cutting edge presentations on the latest in forensic dna, fingerprinting and criminal law. ]
Kruglick's Forensic and Criminal Law - Resource claiming over a thousand links from law office in Mill Valley, California.
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Kyiv Institute of Forensic Science - Educational resource, including history, development, forum from part of the Ministry of Justice, Kiev, Ukraine.
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Lee, Dr. Henry - Overview of the topic from founder and professor of the Forensic Science Program at the University of New Haven, editor of academic journals, article and book author, and Chief Emeritus of the Connecticut State Police.
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Mitretek Systems - Non-profit company offering objective technical support to state and local criminal justice agencies, particularly on emerging technologies confronting the community, through prototyping and testing at Falls Church, Virginia.
NIST in Law Enforcement - Outlines the development and improvement of forensic technologies; facial, fingerprint and DNA recognition, in the crime-fighting community by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
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Perspectives on Crime and Justice lectures - Next conference in series for practitioners and researchers who deal with criminal justice, archives of previous meetings held throughout the States, from National Institute of Justice, Washington, DC.
Reddy's Forensic Home Page - Links relating to ballistics, gunprints, wound analysis, software, chemistry, narcotics and other subdisciplines, organizations and agencies from New York City.
Zeno's Forensic Page - Extensive listing of links to forensic science, including medicine and psychology. Active message board and index of links to other sites, available in other languages from Den Haag, Netherlands.
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