Forensic Science for Beginners...
For many people, forensics is a fascinating but confusing field that is full of mystery and intrigue. Whether it's learning more about how criminal evidence is collected and stored or finding out how the legal system uses this information, everyone should explore the world of forensics. A skilled team of expert authors write all of our articles, which we hope will be informative and interesting to our huge and diverse readership.
May's Most Popular Articles...
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Rigor Mortis and Lividity: Rigor Mortis and Lividity are two natural occurrences within the human body after death that can be used as a means of determining - or at least estimating -… [3250 views in May]
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Entrance and Exit Wounds: Entrance and exit wounds are more often than not the result of an individual being shot by an assailant with some kind of firearm. Of course entrance and exit… [2466 views in May]
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Estimating The Time of Death: Estimating the time of death for the deceased is something else that the pathologist will have to do during the course of his autopsy procedures. In… [1950 views in May]
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Forensic Cases: Colin Pitchfork, First Exoneration Through DNA: One of the keystones of forensic science is DNA testing. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the genetic material… [1814 views in May]
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The Four Manners of Death: The four manners of death are the four main categories in which death can occur that a pathologist will look for when he or she is examining the deceased.… [1704 views in May]
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Forensic Cases: The Murder of Leanne Tiernan: In August 2001, a man walking his dog in Lindley Woods, near Otley, in West Yorkshire, found the body of 16-year old Leanne Tiernan,… [1648 views in May]
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Analysing Evidence: Hair and Fibres, Latent Prints, Toxicology, Serology: Bodily Fluids,...
Analysing the Body: Rigor Mortis and Lividity, Stomach Contents as a Means of Evidence,...
Ask Our Experts: Are all Forensic Photographers SOCOs?, How Can a Bullet be Identified...
Case Book: Forensic Cases: Colin Pitchfork, First Exoneration Through DNA,...
Collecting Evidence: Recording and Preserving the Crime Scene,...
Future of Forensics: Forensics in the Water, X-ray Forensics for Guns,...
Pathology: Determining Cause of Death, Blood Types, Bodily Fluids in Forensic...
Types of Forensics: Forensic Pathology, Forensic Toxicology, Forensic Entomology,...
Understanding Evidence: Chemical Pollution of a Crime Scene, Und...
Understanding Injuries: Ligature Marks, Toxic Gases, Entrance and Exit...
Latest Comments
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Joe
Re: Exhuming a Corpse For Forensic Analysis
how is a person, injected with an empty syringe and killed is identified as murder, in the autopsy conducted by the…
24 May 2013 -
n/a
Re: Rigor Mortis and Lividity
If only up to the first six hours of death lividity can be altered by moving the body. and after the six hour mark lividity is fixed…
13 May 2013 -
n/a
Re: Suffocating and Smothering
Repeated case study: Lets say in a homicidal suffocation by pillow, would that in itself, bloodshot eyes, be enough for a coroner to…
13 May 2013 -
jas
Re: Detecting Evidence After Bleaching
I'm looking at this because I keep finding clothing of my husbands that is bleached. I'm always asking why does this got…
9 May 2013 -
ocean
Re: How Can a Bullet be Identified from a Particular Gun?
I am an A-level student and am interested in doing a physics degree then a masters in forensic…
3 May 2013 -
skittles:D
Re: Estimating The Time of Death
Here are a couple of facts for this topic= AIR TEMP-A body will cool faster on a cold winter night than on a warm summer…
29 April 2013 -
shjohnk
Re: Ligature Marks
Just as a sidenote: I remember reading about a case in 1925 when a killer in England named Norman Thorne manually-strangled an inconvenient mistress…
26 April 2013 -
kraz3e
Re: Forensic Cases: The Murder of Leanne Tiernan
good thing that they got ahold of him.
21 April 2013
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