Ethics in Forensic Science
Definition
Rules that bind the analyst to neutrality: testify only within expertise, document fully, declare conflicts, avoid prosecution bias.
Related terms
- Anthropometry
- The measurement of the human body for scientific purposes. In forensic history, the Bertillon system of criminal anthropometry used eleven standardised body...
- Dactyloscopy
- Identification by friction-ridge skin patterns. The Calcutta Anthropometric Bureau, reorganised as the world's first Fingerprint Bureau in 1897, gave India a permanent...
- DFSS
- Directorate of Forensic Science Services, India; issues the Forensic Laboratory Manual that governs glass and soil examination procedures, including the bromoform-based density...
- Forensic Science
- The application of scientific methods and knowledge to questions that arise in legal proceedings. The goal is producing findings that are reliable,...
- Locard's Exchange Principle
- The foundational idea that every contact between two surfaces moves material in both directions, giving the forensic process its starting premise: physical...
- NAS 2009
- US National Academy of Sciences report that found large parts of pattern-evidence forensics had no validated scientific basis. The reference point for...
Explained in
- Forensic Science: Definition, History, Scope and EthicsRules that bind the analyst to neutrality: testify only within expertise, document fully, declare conflicts, avoid prosecution bias.