Science and the law are not natural partners. Science seeks to advance our understanding of the natural world. The law is tasked with ensuring public safety and making sure justice is properly served.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Forensic science is an embattled field. As DNA testing has overturned hundreds of ...

Forensic science has been subject to criticism on a number of occasions. In 2009, the National Academy of Sciences produced a report criticizing the state of forensic science. Since then, much work ...

Tune in to the average TV cop show and you’re likely to think crime scene forensics is a solved problem. Fingerprints, bullets, and fragments of broken glass can be unambiguously traced back to the ...

Five years ago, the National Academy of Sciences put out a report condemning the state of forensic science. It concluded that many common forensic techniques—the analysis of fingerprints, bite marks, ...

Betty Layne DesPortes is a criminal defense lawyer and a co-author of the sixth edition of "Scientific Evidence in Civil and Criminal Cases," and editor of the law section of the online "Wiley ...

Under fire yet again, law enforcement is fighting back. Facing heavy criticism for misconduct and abuse, prosecutors are protesting a new report from President Obama’s top scientific advisors that ...

Forensic science is an intriguing multidisciplinary field that combines criminal justice and scientific research for many students right out of Class 12 science. Choosing the appropriate classes in ...

Universities.com rated the University of New Haven as the #1 Forensic Science Program in the U.S. For Morgan Korzik ’22 M.S., it was the stories he’d heard about his great grandfather, a Chicago ...

Betty Layne DesPortes is a criminal defense lawyer and a co-author of the sixth edition of "Scientific Evidence in Civil and Criminal Cases," and editor of the law section of the online "Wiley ...