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The pharmaceutical industry faces escalating risks from sophisticated fraud schemes, including counterfeit drug distribution, billing irregularities, and corporate malfeasance. Forensic ...

Outdoor forensic anthropology research laboratories are colloquially called “body farms,” a term that many researchers find too sensational but that has stuck following the 1994 publication of ...

"Making a Murderer" has dominated discussion, sparked outrage and fostered doubt about the criminal justice system.The attorney who first freed Steven Avery in 2003 talked exclusively with WISN 12 ...

In every credible justice system, truth is not assumed. It is demonstrated through verifiable scientific evidence. Courts cannot rely on intuition, legislators cannot design effective criminal policy ...

MARIETTA — Wheeler High School magnet students stumbled across a murder scene in school last week. However, instead of calling the police, they set out solving the crime themselves, eventually ...

KINGSTON — This isn't your parents' science class. And the job of a crime scene investigator isn't as glamorous as what you see on an episode of "CSI." ...

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In a couple of months, Samantha Teehee, an eighth-grader at Salem Church Middle School in Chesterfield County, has gone from knowing little about forensic science to being interested in a career in ...

Any project, supported or not by a committee, that is currently being worked on or is considered active, and will have an end date. This National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine study ...

This National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine study will examine the handing of deaths in custody by the medicolegal death investigation system in the United States. It will consider ...