Forensic Science Careers: A Growing Field with 27% Job Growth Predicted by 2024
Forensic Scientists and forensic technicians find job opportunities with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies, crime labs, medical examiner/coroner's offices and hospitals.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that, between 2014 and 2024, there will be a 27 percent increase in open positions for forensic science technicians
Evidence collection
The process of collecting and preserving physical evidence at a crime scene using various techniques to ensure that evidence is not contaminated, lost, or destroyed.
Fingerprints & Hair
Fingerprints is the unique patterns of ridges on fingers and hands used to identify individuals. while Forensic analysis of hair can provide important information about a crime, such as identifying a suspect or victim.
Drug chemistry & Ballistics
Drug chemistry is the analysis of drugs and chemicals can provide evidence of drug use or poisoning in a crime investigation while ballistics is the study of bullets, firearms, and ammunition to determine their source and use in a crime.
The crime scene (CSI)
The location where a crime has occurred and where forensic evidence is collected, documented, and analyzed to solve crimes.
Fingerprints: The unique patterns of ridges and furrows on fingers and hands used to identify individuals and provide valuable evidence in criminal investigations.
Bite marks & Fibers
Bite marks is the analysis of bite marks can provide information about the perpetrator of a crime, including identifying their dental records while Fibers is the analysis of fibers can provide information about the source of a garment or other material found at a crime scene.
Others are: Toxicology Soil and glass analysis, Blood Spatter, DNA, Forensic entomology, Forensics photography, Forensic Anthropology, Tool marks and impressions, Questioned documents, Cyber crime, and Digital media/multimedia
THE CSI EFFECT
The objective is to point out what is real-life crime scene investigation involves versus what the television displays.
Millions watch CSI and come away with a warped opinion about this very important real-life investigation. Even jurors are coming into court expecting what they’ve seen on television with people lives in the balance.
From the Preface ...
The body on the slab was no different from the hundreds of other dead bodies I’ve encountered over the course of my career: tall, muscular, twenty-two years old, with close-cropped hair and a slight scar across the bridge of his nose. Had I met him on the street, I would have assumed he was an athlete.
Now he was just another black man, dead from multiple gunshot wounds to the face and torso. To the world he was invisible and instantly forgotten.
For me he was a symbol of all the hate and violence and prejudice that crawls through the underbelly of our nation.
I had no doubt that he had a family and people who loved him. Had he wanted to repay their love, to marry, carve out a career, to succeed and make them proud?
We would never know because he was gone before his life had truly begun.
