Computer forensics gave Michael Fiola his life back. Fiola is the former investigator with the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents who found himself summarily dismissed after an IT check ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lars Daniel covers digital evidence and forensics in life and law. Digital forensics stands alone among major forensic disciplines ...

The Berks County District Attorney’s Forensic Services Crime Laboratory has met the standards for international accreditation in the field of forensic inspection from the American National Standards ...

Tune in to the average TV cop show and you’re likely to think crime scene forensics is a solved problem. Fingerprints, bullets, and fragments of broken glass can be unambiguously traced back to the ...

Suzanne Bell receives funding from granting agencies including the National Institute of Justice and the National Institutes of Standards and Technology. The opinions expressed here are her own and ...

Solid scientific evidence can be crucial for solving crimes. But science may have been progressing too fast for the courts and the juries to keep up. The problem was symbolized by a ruling last year ...

WASHINGTON -- A congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council finds serious deficiencies in the nation's forensic science system and calls for major reforms and new research.

Five years ago, the National Academy of Sciences put out a report condemning the state of forensic science. It concluded that many common forensic techniques—the analysis of fingerprints, bite marks, ...