Crime & Forensics

Forensic science is portrayed on screen as fast and near-infallible, and is in practice slow, probabilistic and heavily dependent on procedure. This category covers the main disciplines, fingerprints, DNA profiling, toxicology, ballistics, what each can genuinely establish, and the chain-of-custody rules that determine whether evidence is usable at all. It focuses on method and reliability rather than on individual crimes. The explanations are careful to state the limits of each technique, because overstating forensic certainty has contributed to real miscarriages of justice.