Forensic Science

Catalog description

Introduction to the role of science and the law through an exploration of actual cases. Focuses on the benefits and limitations of technologies on which police rely to apprehend criminal perpetrators and to link them to crime scenes. Emphasizes selected aspects such as ABO blood groups; DNA fingerprinting; crime scene preservation and testing for the presence of blood, explosives, and gunshot residue at the scene; forensic anthropology; and laboratory investigations of forensic aspects of physical and chemical evidence, questioned documents, poisons, and drugs of abuse. Laboratory.