Forensics Law

The meeting point for science and criminology is forensics and when many victims and their families rely on getting justice from the crimes they’ve suffered like burglary, sexual assault, murder, etc., there also has to be a law that governs the process of how evidence is gathered and how the evidence is analyzed.

Forensics affects both civil and criminal cases profoundly.  And this all goes back to a case in the 1700s.  John Toms was a man tied to a crime with a small torn piece of a newspaper.  After 100 years, forensics has seen a development in the form of DNA fingerprinting.  This concept had its foundations from the study that Dr. Alec Jeffreys made.  From the humble beginnings of what this English geneticist created, modern day DNA testing is one of the best tools for bringing court cases to a close.

Forensics law is made up of a number of specialties.  There’s entomology, pathology, and accounting among others.  Yes, contrary to popular belief, forensics doesn’t only cover biological evidence but also physical evidence.  A person’s guilt can be established with a money trail or with the analysis of the crime scene from a photograph.  Through forensics, the right criminals are prosecuted for the right crime and cases that have long been left unopened are being closed with links being found to other cases.

Although still fallible in that the police and those who process the evidence can still make a mistake, many victims and their families have gotten closure with forensics law’s help.