Forensic technique estimates time of death by checking biological clock
A novel technique was employed by scientists recently to estimate the time of death by correlating the deceased individuals internal circadian clock of the human brain, which regulates the body’s day-and-night cycle over a 24 hour period, scientists said. Their findings suggest that a healthy person’s time of death could be estimated with just a few hours, compared to longer periods of time using other techniques, by analyzing a set of activity genes (the technique looks a the genes to see whether they’re switched high or low) within certain regions of the deceased brain. Moreover, as a breakthrough medical finding, the [...]
The price to pay for a career in Forensic Investigations. Necessary knowledge
Developing a career in computer forensic investigations is as hard as challenging for anyone who has expertise in one of the following areas: law enforcement, data retrieval, security software and computer science. Each of these is associated with a numerous other related fields of activity, most of them branches of the main activities. Therefore, every of these opportunities should be analyzed individually. Law enforcement. It is usually associated with other related fields, such as consulting, financial and academic studies and research. The significance of specific knowledge of the legal environment is vital when starting a computer forensic investigation, because of [...]
Computer forensics training
The legal and technical expertise in computer forensics is enough specific and require knowledge on a precised detailed niche field, that most of the experts apply to trainings even much after their formation period is over. The exclusivity is also the key of this domain, since there are no universal recipes and the particular cases to be solved require a limited, distinctive spectrum of activities and procedures that are to take place in order for the investigation to be both available in court and meaningful for solving the case. It is, indeed, required that you have a very good understanding [...]
Computer Forensics ABC
In modern crime scene investigation, most things pass through a computer. There is, and won’t be in the foreseeable future, a replacement for quality human work, but the developments of computers have provided incredibly much help to CSIs. Defining computer forensics Nowadays, everybody uses computers; they’ve become such an essential part of our lives that it’s hard to imagine how society would look without them. Considering how forensics deals with all aspects of crime, computer forensics was necessary and bount to appear, sooner or later. So, if we were to define it, we’d be saying that computer forensics is the [...]
Forensic chemistry: what is it, how to become one, education and salary
Forensic chemistry deals with the chemical analysis of evidence for the commission of a crime. A forensic chemist is responsible with identifying and characterizing the evidence, and will some time be required to hold his conclusions in court as an expert witness attesting or disproving the validity of the forwarded evidence. Contrary to popular belief, however, a forensic chemist will rarely perform investigative work – field work is most of the time performed by law enforcement and forensic technicians. A forensic chemist will analyze evidence including hair samples, paint chips, glass fragments, gun powder, blood stains and so on. For [...]