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Forensic Science Technician


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Welcome to the forensic science technician page. This page is designed to help anybody looking for information and resources relating to this particular forensic science career.

Whether you are considering becoming a forensic science technician, are looking for appropriate forensic science classes or simply want to find out what a forensic science technician does, we hope you find the following material useful.

What Does A Forensic Science Technician Do?

According to the National Institute of Health Office of Science Education, a forensic science technician collects, identifies, classifies, and analyzes physical evidence relating to criminal investigations. A forensic science technician will perform tests on weapons or substances, e.g., fiber, hair, and tissue to determine their significance to an investigation.

Forensic science technicians may also testify as an expert witnesses on evidence or crime laboratory techniques; as well as serving as specialists in area such as ballistics, fingerprinting, handwriting, or biochemistry.


Quality Forensic Science Technician Links


National Institute of Health Office of Science Education

The Office of Science Education coordinates science education activities at the National Institutes of Health and develops and sponsors science education projects. These programs serve elementary, secondary, and college students and teachers and the public.

Their website has a comprehensive careers section which includes some very useful forensic science technician information, which you can access by Clicking Here.

This information includes an interview with Angi M. Christensen a Forensic Science Technician, Evidence Analyst and Evidence Technician, at the Federal Bureau of Investigation Laboratory in Washington.

If you are seriously considering becoming a forensic science technician, we strongly recommend that you read the transcript of this very insightful inteview. Topics discussed include:

  • Work Experience
  • Education
  • A Typical Workday
  • you can read the interview transcript by Clicking Here.


    US Bureau of Labor Statistics

    The US Bureau of Labor Statistics has produced a detailed report on science technicians. Much of the information contained within the report pertains to forensic science technicians and includes information relating to:

  • Nature of the Work
  • Training, Other Qualifications, and Advancement
  • Employment
  • Job Outlook
  • Earnings
  • Related Occupations
  • Sources of Additional Information
  • If you'd like to read the report in full, you can do so by clicking on the following link. The science technicians report should open automatically. If it doesn't, you will need to install Adobe Reader on your computer, which you can get for free by clicking here (a new window will open so you can download without leaving this page).

    Click Here To read the report in full.


    Forensic Science Technician Videos


    Forensic Science Technician

    Brief job description.

    Ohio University Forensic Chemistry Lab

    Undergraduate students in a Forensic Chemistry Lab demonstrate how to develop fingerprints using a variety of methods: Cyanoacrylate (super glue), fuming, dusting, and iodine fuming.


    Useful Resources


    There are a number of pages right here on the All About Forensic Science website that provide additional resource material.

    Forensic Science Classes:

    Forensic Science Degree (USA)

    Forensic Science Degree (UK)

    CSI College

    Criminal Justice Online

    Career Guidance:

    Forensic Science Careers

    The Criminalist:

    Criminalistics


    Recommended Reading


    Every Contact Leaves a Trace: Crime Scene Experts Talk About Their Work from Discovery Through Verdict by Connie Fletcher

    Book Description

    Blood, fluid, fiber, hair, tissue prints every contact leaves a trace at a crime scene. Connie Fletcher presents, in the experts own words, what happens at the scene and in the crime lab, starting with discovery of the crime through criminal trial. Evidence technicians, blood spatter experts, latent print specialists, trace analysts, forensic anthropologists, entomologists, DNA experts, firearms experts, trace analysts, homicide detectives, and prosecution and defense attorneys more than eighty experts take you into their world behind the yellow tape. This is the experts book their words, their knowledge, their stories. Real Crime Scene Investigation.

    See following link for more details:

    Every Contact Leaves a Trace: Crime Scene Experts Talk About Their Work from Discovery Through Verdict

    Visitors From The UK Click Here


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