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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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