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The word "forensics" is correct and usable in written English.
Generally, it is used to refer to the application of scientific methods to solve criminal investigations. Example: The police team gathered evidence from the scene using forensic analysis.
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forensics
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The study of formal debate; rhetoric
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The demise of the Forensic Science Service comes as police forces shift towards a more streamlined approach to the use of forensics in criminal cases.
Subjects in the timetable range from dining and singing sessions and sushi-making performance art classes to the Sundown Schoolhouse of Queer Home Economics, plus explorations of time and space, forensics and Freddie Mercury.
Commissioned by the Wellcome Collection for its new exhibition Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime, the Bosnian artist – whose previous work has tried to make sense of the war that started when she was a teenager and killed her father – took on something huge.
For Ballard, dissection enables psychological as well as physical forensics: "Sitting beside her, I pared back the skin of her shoulder, dividing the muscles and exposing the nerves of her brachial plexus, the strings that had once moved her arms as she caressed her husband, brushed her hair, cradled her child".
From rifling through the murder scene to studying forensics and testing deductions, it sucks you in.
What is it about forensics that interests her? "It's the crossover between the rigorous scientific methods and the magic of the trace being able to lead you to construct a picture, or a scene," she says.
Related: The grisly history of forensics – by crime writer Val McDermid How does the work affect her? "It's not for me.
Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime is at the Wellcome Collection, from tomorrow until 21 June.
She trained in forensics and worked in a morgue for years.
There was fingerprint evidence, DNA, handwriting analysis and linguistic forensics linking Barot to computer data and other material found in the course of the investigation.
Officers examined almost 300 computers, 1,800 disks, CDs and hard drives, and scores of books, documents and notepads, using fingerprinting, DNA, computer forensics, linguistic analysis and facial mapping.
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