FSC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Forensic Biology, Forensic Science, Expert Witness
Document Summary
Relating to or dealing with the application of scientist knowledge to legal problems regarding to criminal evidence. Forensic science: science in service to the courts, can have many subspecialties some less obvious, forensic accounting, forensic botany. Systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. We make observation, come out with questions, test questions, get results, refine questions. There are governing rules, protocols and a growing knowledge ase. Rise out of the unique pairing of science and the law. We make a protocol on how to evaluate evidence. Systematic approach to documenting, collecting, interpreting and presenting evidence for presentation in court of law. In pop culture and media, forensic is often used to imply: systematic, detail-oriented, evidence- based. Act or commission of act forbidden by a public law and makes offender open to punishment by the law. Often used to term referring to processes associated with investigation of criminal event.
