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n. Any of several fields of study involving the collection of physical evidence and its subsequent analysis
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Forensic science is the application of science to criminal and civil laws. Forensic scientists collect, preserve, and analyze scientific evidence during the course of an investigation. While some forensic scientists travel to the scene to collect the evidence themselves, others occupy a laboratory role, performing analysis on objects brought to them by other individuals.
In addition to their laboratory role, forensic scientists testify as expert witnesses in both criminal and civil cases and can work for either the prosecution or the defense. While any field could technically be forensic, certain sections have developed over time to encompass the majority of forensically related cases.
Usage examples of "forensic science".
And also you had semen tests, saliva tests, hair tests, fingerprints, and all the other magic of forensic science.
He'd studied with the FBI behaviorists down at Quantico and had degrees in forensic science and psychology.
The computer recognized Rhyme's voice and obeyed his order, slapping a new page of Forensic Science Review onto the monitor.
It had been a day of combined business and pleasure - business at the forensic science laboratory at Chepstow - and the pleasure of driving there and back with her through pleasant countryside.
My hundreds of medical, legal, and forensic science reviews, journals and formidable volumes were crammed together and, in some cases, double-shelved.
When the case was reopened in the early nineties, the results of the new investigation were discussed at various forensic science academy meetings.
A gunshot wound lecture to the Forensic Science Academy at four, and a meeting at five with Investigator Ring from the state police.
I probably pick forensic science books for bedtime reading, probably have memorized all the cop's ten codes.
A warehouse near the state library - the same warehouse where the Bureau of Forensic Science stores evidence from its old cases.
An obvious advantage of having the forensic science labs inside my building was I didn't have to wait for paper reports.
This was a new kind of forensic science, unimaginable even a few years earlier.
The first shooting in the history of forensic science that has left no traces in the place where it is supposed to have taken place.
My office and morgue shared space with the labs and the recently established Virginia Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine, which was the first training academy of its type in the country, if not the world.