Forensic accountants are accountants that have specialized training and often receive special designations such as Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, ...

Many of the "forensic science" methods commonly used in criminal cases and portrayed in popular television crime dramas have never been scientifically validated and may lead to unjust verdicts, ...

Trial judges should be more skeptical of forensic methods that don’t pass scientific muster, a panel of legal experts told judges at the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference on Tuesday. SAN FRANCISCO (CN ...

A digital forensics expert prepares to extract data from a mobile phone. (R. Press/NIST) The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published Digital Investigation Techniques: A ...

Researchers have developed a new method for human identification, which could be a powerful new tool for forensic ...

Many forensic techniques developed in crime labs to aid investigators, and research into their limits or scientific validity was never a priority. Except for DNA, no method has been shown to be able ...

Chemicals become weapons when used deliberately to inflict harm on individuals or groups of people. Chemical forensics makes it possible to get on the perpetrator’s trail even with a small sample. In ...

Research has suggested that more work is needed to show that digital forensic methods are robust enough to stand-up to interrogation in a court of law. Research carried out at the University of York ...

Your next favorite true crime podcast might have some new forensics jargon to make sense of. Researchers in Australia have developed a new way to identify humans – similar to how we do with DNA and ...

Forensic speaker recognition encompasses the application of acoustic analysis and statistical evaluation techniques to determine the identity of individuals from voice recordings. This field has ...

Many of the 'forensic science' methods commonly used in criminal cases and portrayed in popular police TV dramas have never been scientifically validated and may lead to unjust verdicts, according to ...