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Forensic News Journal
Crime Scene: A Forensic Market pg 4-13
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Figure 1: A crime scene Source: iStockphoto
Crime Scene: A Forensic Market
By Nandini Gupta, Amity University, Haryana, India
Just imagine the world mitted without any de- chemistry, physics and so
to be a tree, just like a fense or justification and many more that collec-
tree has so many leaves, sanctioned by the State for tively give rise to Forensic
so does the world has so punishment as a felony Science which helps to
many people and each of or misdemeanor”. There find out the culprit and ex-
them with a unique set of are several types of crime onerate the innocent. This
mind and body character- which can be committed subject deals with iden-
istics. Just like a tree is by the criminals which tification of the criminal
harmed/cut by so many includes murder, robbery, by solving the tetrahedron
people for their recreation- rape, homicide, sexual of the crime scene i.e. by
al and materialistic needs, offences, property crimes linking the crime scene
same way our beauti- etc. for some malicious or with the suspect, evidence
ful world is also being wrong intentions. and criminal and hence
harmed by the criminals So, the branch of science punishing the culprit ac-
by their intentional act or that deals with the iden- cording to the criminal or
crimes which is defined tification of the criminal civil laws.
by Paul Tappan as “ an by using the basic and So, through this article
intentional act or omission combined knowledge of I will explain how the
in violation of law com- various fields like biology, analysis of the crime
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