Why Forensic Science Is Important

Technology has become an essential in everyday life, even in crime solving. A major field that uses technology is forensic science. The technology used helps to classify DNA, register fingerprints, and classify evidence. To understand what forensic technologies are and how they help classify evidence you might want to know what forensic science is and what it does. Forensic science is the classification and analysis of evidence from a crime scene. Forensic evidence fulfills several roles in criminal investigations. Its helps prove a crime has been committed or establish key elements of a crime, place the suspect in contact with the victim or with the crime scene, establish the identity of persons associated with a crime, exonerate the innocent, corroborate a victim‘s testimony, assist in establishing the facts of what occurred.
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The camera uses a blue light and orange filters to show discoloring below the skin's surface. Infrared photography is used to enhance difficult to see blood on dark and patterned clothing, and tattoos post-mortem difficult to see due to decomposition.
Video Spectral Comparator, with this machine, scientists and investigators can see obscured or hidden writing, determine quality of paper and origin and “lift” indented writing. This instrument is capable of viewing and exploiting the response of documents/inks when exposed to light of various wavelengths. This is useful for the examination and comparison of inks, security features in documents such as passports and driving licences, and the examination of altered or obliterated entries.
3D Forensic Facial Reconstruction, 3D facial reconstruction takes human remains and extends a possible physical appearance. 3d facial reconstruction is the process of recreating the face of an individual (whose identity is often not known) from skeletal