Forensic Science – Past & Present

It is often thought that police forensics has been a relatively new contribution to interpreting, reconstructing, and solving crimes in our society. Quite the contrary, police forensics, or more accurately described as forensic science, has been a part of history for more than a hundred years.

What is forensic science? The word "forensic" comes from the Latin word "forensis", which simply means forum. Today, the area of police forensics is split into two major working categories: criminalistic