The committee’s report cites several failures since the initial decision in December 2010 to shutter the FSS due to its poor economic performance, including improperly archived investigative materials ...

The University of Leicester is establishing a new forensic science Institute which aims to help UK police forces solve unconventional crimes. The Alec Jeffreys Forensic Science Institute is a new ...

UK government failures over forensic science are leading to fragmentation, research gaps and possibly even miscarriages of justice, according to a parliamentary inquiry on the subject. Crimes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A House of Lords report says the forensic science service in England and Wales is failing the police, the courts and the public, ...

FLASHY TV shows, true-crime podcasts and a growing interest in cracking cold cases might have you believing that forensic science has all the answers when it comes to solving difficult crimes. But ...

British scientists played a major role in developing key technologies and techniques for global legal systems. These tools – such as fingerprint and DNA analysis – reveal relationships between ...

Forensic science has been subject to criticism on a number of occasions. In 2009, the National Academy of Sciences produced a report criticizing the state of forensic science. Since then, much work ...

A murder case on America's Most Wanted list is to be tackled by a forensic scientist at the University of Leicester and Northamptonshire Police. A murder case on America’s Most Wanted list is to be ...

The lessons of the FBI failures in microscopic hair and bloodstain pattern analyses are clear.

The US docuseries Unsolved Mysteries brought a few real cold-case investigations to light, but coverage of forensic science ...