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exacting and requires strict attention to policy and procedure. Evidence must be gathered in a manner that will allow it to withstand scrutiny in the court room (Genge, 2002).
Material collected from a crime scene must be carefully collected, analyzed, and its integrity insured to meet that requirement. Furthermore, this material must be collected in accordance with
the laws that govern seizure of evidence. As technology and our understanding of how evidence can prove guilt or innocence has improved, so too has the way we collect and
process said evidence. Consider fingerprint evidence as an example. When it was recognized that every human being had a distinct fingerprint, fingerprints became a primary tool in the
forensic tool chest. With that evolution in understanding came a corresponding evolution in how to collect finger prints. While initially only visible fingerprints were collected and analyzed, the
collection techniques quickly evolved so that fingerprints could be collected from some of the most unexpected surfaces using the most unusual techniques. Fingerprint dust was one of the most
rudimentary of those techniques. Then more and more discoveries led to more and more capabilities. Super glue fumes, for example, have recently been found capable of materializing previously
invisible fingerprints that dusting alone would have missed (Genge, 2002). Fingerprints have been useful not only in the context of being retrieved from a crime site but also in terms
of identifying unknown children and corpses. Rehydration of a corpses finger tips now allows finger prints to be used in identification in cases that previously would have remained unidentified (Lyle,
2008). Although forensics have application non-criminal inquiries as well, they seem to receive the most interest in terms of how they are applied in criminal investigations. As might be
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