Antoinette Watson
CJS/215
December 7, 2015
Denise Mowder

Forensic Science is the implementation of science and technology in the criminal justice system, which enforced by police agencies. To break down the definition of forensic science, forensic means the key to solving crimes. Science indicates the source of technology that used to help the forensic team to investigate the evidence and solve crimes. The history and development have come to long ways. There are many roles of the forensic science expert as well as the multi-capabilities.

Forensic science began with a manuscript titled Yi Yi Ju (“A Collection of Criminal Cases”), in the third century in China. The report showed how a coroner was able to prove a woman was guilty of murdering her husband when in fact she claimed his death was accidental. By a simple experiment that done with two pigs. After, the official had informed the woman about the evidence that found, they were able to get a confession out of the wife. The Chinese were the first to identify an individual by their latent fingerprints and early eighteenth centuries, it was circumscribed education of anatomy and pathology restricted the growth of forensic science. In 1686 a professor of anatomy by the name of Marcello Malpighi at the University of Bologna in Italy. He was the first to record fingerprints characteristics. However, that was not a form of identification at that time. More than a century later, the first scientific paper developed of fingerprints, but still it was no acknowledged as a kind of identification. The first test that was advantageous for detection of poison arsenic in corpse discovered by a Swedish chemist named Carl Wilhelm Scheele. 1806. Valentin Ross found a more detailed approach for detecting arsenic in the walls of the stomach. This discovery was a great help to the law enforcement agencies, giving the police proof of physical evidence. William Nichol invented Eleven years later the polarizing microscope; this was just the beginning of the microscope discoveries. Several new forensic science exploration made such as microscopic of the sperm. Their sperm could identify a person. This authentication helped solved many open rape cases. Microcrystalline, was the first that test for hemoglobin ( the complex protein found in the red blood cells that have iron molecule) and blood testing. The testing became favorable in the criminal trials. One that much used today is the science of the photograph invented; it was used to take pictures of evidence and various other picture; for instances, prisoners and crime scenes.