Study Forensics Science abroad

Forensic science is a field that majorly applies to both civil law and criminal law, tilting towards the latter. It is used to figure out how a crime scene has gone about, nitpicking every single detail, and gathering evidence from it. Cases such as sexual abuse and murder depend critically on forensic scientists to piece together all elements for the investigators to bring about justice. On the civil law side, forensic scientists are helpful in determining whether a person charged with a civil offense such as willingly polluting the air or a water source is guilty of the crime or not. The major difference between the traditional sciences and forensic science is that the practitioners of the latter apply it in legal matters. The following are the major fields in forensics:

Forensic anthropology – relating to skeletal remains for evidence and data collection and analytics.

Digital and Computer forensics – as the name suggests, it deals with electronics and data in digital form, particularly concerned with finding a “digital fingerprint”.

Forensic pathology – as always, the victim can tell everything even after they have passed. The human body can always be studied via laboratory analysis implementing mainly chemistry and biology.

Toxicology – this particular field deals with all types of traces elements in the human body and understands how they impact its functioning. For example, the ‘date-rape drug’ can be found in the victim’s body after the crime has occurred to establish evidence for the case.

Forensic engineering – this field deals with the investigation of failures as they relate to law and legal matters. They are meant to find out why a certain structure, product, etc. failed to function and what might be the cause behind it, leading to the entity on which the blame falls.