Forensics and forensic science are highly popular terms nowadays thanks to famous TV series and films. Most people, inspired by these series, normally associate these terms to crime scene investigation (CSI), ocular inspection and evidence recovery. However, forensics involves much more than CSI, including a vast number of sciences, disciplines and studies such as forensic genetics, chemistry, ...

The purpose of this work is to promote and facilitate forensic profiling and chemical analysis of illicit drug samples in order to determine their origin, methods of production and transfer through the country. The article is based on the gas chromatography analysis of heroin samples seized from three different locations in Serbia. Chemometric approach with appropriate statistical tools (multip...

The singularity of population structure observed in Finland is the ultimate result of a number of factors in history. Finland’s late emergence from the Pleistocene era coupled with its geographical isolation, low initial density of the breeding population and limited gene flow have ultimately contributed to genetic dissociation from the rest of Europe, post-expansion amplification of distinctiv...

§13.1 The Forensic Sciences §13.2 The Admissibility of Forensics-Only Science §13.2.1 “General Acceptance” in Forensic Science Should Not Be a Sufficient Condition for Admissibility §13.2.2 “General Acceptance” in Forensic Science Should Not Be a Necessary Condition for Admissibility §13.3 Trace Evidence and Identification §13.3.1 Matches, Non-Matches, and Hypotheses §13.3.2 Exclusions §13.3.3 ...

Identification of humans is usually performed by various scientific means, but comparisons of fingerprints, DNA profiles, and dental characteristics are the only accepted stand-alone forms of identification. Comparative dental identification is useful in the case of a heavily decomposed body because the fingerprint no longer exists and DNA profiling takes time. In comparative dental identificat...

Examination of crime scene items for biological evidence typically begins with a preliminary screening for the presence of biological fluids in order to identify possible sources of DNA. Conventional biochemical and immunological assays employed for this screening require multiple tests to be performed in a serial manner, can consume a significant amount of valuable evidentiary material, and ca...

Forensic personal identification is a fundamental topic of forensic sciences and technologies to identify lived subjects, recently deceased bodies and human remains often at a crime scene by using several appropriate techniques. Throughout human history, many different methods were used for personal identification. The most commonly used method was relying on one’s memory to identify the distin...

The introduction of forensic autosomal DNA profiles was controversial, but the problems were successfully addressed, and DNA profiling has gone on to revolutionise forensic science. Y-chromosome profiles are valuable when there is a mixture of male-source and female-source DNA, and interest centres on the identity of the male source(s) of the DNA. The problem of evaluating evidential weight is ...