FORENSIC CRIMINOLOGY

Forensic Criminology

Forensic Criminology

Introduction

The following paper is all about the forensic criminology, therefore, to cover all the relevant aspects of the subject, a research paper selected by the author that could help the readers in understanding the concept of the forensic criminology. However, to give the readers a glimpse of the concept, the word Forensic comes from the Latin word forensis, meaning 'of or before the forum' whereby the 'forum' was a court of law, which heard, in public, evidence or material for public discussion or argumentation (Criminology Careers Today, 2011).

Another definition of forensic is 'relating to the use of science or technology in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law. So, by amalgamating these definitions, we can establish that forensics has two parts. Firstly, the use of 'science' to establish facts and secondly, the presentation of those facts in a court of law. The exact meaning of forensic is highly dependent upon the branch of forensic in which we are interested. However, given the multi-disciplinary nature of Criminology, Forensic Criminology could incorporate forensic elements of many of the above branches of Forensics. However, we can narrow down the role of 'criminology' in the area of forensics by considering what criminology is, and what a criminologist does. In my view, the role of a 'criminologist' is to consider the causes and consequences of crime and deviance with a view to making an informed contribution to policy pertaining to reducing crime and deviance. So, Criminology has three strands in relation to crime and deviant behaviour - searching for causes, analysing consequences, and contributing to its reduction. Understanding the causes of crime and deviance can be done in two ways (Strategic Solutions, 2012).

Firstly, we can look at existing 'theory' developed by others (as a result of their conclusions drawn from research or studies that they have conducted into a specific crime or deviance problem or by conducting new research into a specific crime or deviance problem and developing our own 'theory' or conclusions based upon what we have found.

Forensic science or criminology is defined as the science of tactical principles and methods, and the technical methods and means of detection, and detection of legally defined, negative social phenomena. In particular the crimes and their perpetrators need to prove the existence or absence of a link between the people and events. It is akin to criminology dealing with the personality of the offender and the conditions and causes of action. In forensic science, there are four main areas:

forensic tactics

investigative technique

forensic strategy

forensic methodology (Crisa, 2001, pp. 3-6).

Discussion

The research study that selected by the author is the “Researching Girls and Violence” by Burman, et. al., in 2001. The following research study is very much interesting from a view point that previously, girls and women based research linked with the domestic violence and the other sort of things linked with the female gender that they are deprived of their rights and facing humiliation in the ...