Crime and Punishment in America Almanac | Crime Laboratories

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Crime laboratories offer forensic science services to the criminal justice system. Forensic science applies scientific testing methods and the latest technologies to collect, preserve, process, and analyze evidence. Proof of guilt or innocence is frequently determined by the results of forensic evidence.

Forensic science is a combination of many kinds of knowledge, some of which have...