Case Report Criminalistics

Criminalistics Education and the Role of the Criminalistics Educator.

The uniqueness of criminalistics education stems from the participation of academe, laboratories, and a variety of public agencies, professional associations, and private vendors. One consequence of laboratory and association participation is the premium placed on experience during the evaluation process. An analysis of undergraduate criminalistics programs indicates the existence of considerab...

What Problems Must Criminalistics Solve

Case Report Criminalistics; Anthropology

This report describes the identification of a merchant mariner who perished in 1948 when Northwest Airlines Flight 4422, a DC-4 carrying 24 seamen and six crew members crashed into Mount Sanford, Alaska. Fifty-one years later, a human forearm and hand were found close by the wreckage of the plane, prompting identification efforts using DNA and fingerprints. There were significant challenges to ...

Certification Programs for Criminalists - Historical Development.

Certification is the process by which individual practitioners of a profession are deemed competent, by a peer review process, to practice that profession. Criminalistics is a rather young profession, and until the recent publicity occasioned by a myriad of television dramas and documentaries, a rather obscure one. There has been little oversight of the profession and little call for such overs...

PROCEEDINGS of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences February 2006

Criminalistics.........................................................................38 Engineering Sciences...........................................................126 General.................................................................................152 Jurisprudence .......................................................................179 Odontology ...................................