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An 8 page discussion of the link between forensics and the scientific method. This paper delineates the four step process they share. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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this process can be used in any situation where the details surrounding a past event or occurrence are sought (Vogt, 2008). When these details will ultimately end up in
a court of law, the evidence that is collected and the procedure surrounding that collection must be exacting enough to withstand the intense scrutiny that such a venue elicits.
Consequently, the collection procedure executed in the forensic process must not only be exact but be documented carefully and the evidence analyzed and preserved in a way that insures its
integrity (Vogt, 2008). Maintaining a strict chain of evidence in terms of documentation and evidence integrity is critical in this process as well if the data that is generated
is to be accepted as representative of the facts of any one particular case. The forensic process is, not surprisingly, strongly shaped around the same scientific method that is
employed in the natural sciences. The scientific method employs the processes of induction and deduction, processes where observations are made and conclusions reached from those observations. These
same processes, however, introduce the room for error. Consequently, hard data must be analyzed and reanalyzed both in itself and in context to the rest of the data pertaining
to a particular event. Hypotheses are made but those hypotheses are in reality only educated guesses. They allow the forensic scientist to systematically work through the various scenarios
that could have resulted in a particular event. The forensic process is an exacting process. It is also a rigidly
defined process. At the same time, however, the processes that are encompassed by forensics allow enough flexibility that reasonable doubt can ultimately be ruled out in regard to what
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