Mentor: Roscoe Cronic, Crime Scene Investigator, Gainesville Police Department, Inez Grant, Criminal Defense and Immigration Attorney, Gillsville Law Firm, Taylor Ewing, Clerk of Court, City of Gainesville, Georgia Municipal Court
In the modern world, advances in technology and society are causing major shifts in the methods utilized to investigate crimes. Forensic science as it has historically been used must be continually updated and revised to meet these demands of the globalization of the world through new technological innovations. The process for courts of law at the local, state, federal, and international level to accept both historic and new procedures in forensic science into the courtroom is an evolving field that is important in the prosecution of criminals who are becoming smarter and smarter. Methods such as alcohol blood tests, bloodstain pattern analysis, white collar forensic financial investigations, and anthropological analysis of mass grave sites are methods used at each level discussed that were once new, but with hard work and advocacy earned their rightful place in the courtroom to bring offenders to justice. Through education and knowledge, law enforcement officers and prosecutors can form a more cohesive relationship to work together to incarcerate those individuals who commit crimes of all varieties.
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