Crime and detection

Forensic science; the preparation of scientific evidence to be presented in court is an increasingly valuable aspect of the investigation of crime. Although rare commentaries on the subject date back many centuries, it is only over the last 200 years that a systematic approach has been made an approach that has accelerated rapidly in the past half-century. The detection and analysis of poisons was the first forensic technique to be developed in a...

Across the globe, government intelligence agencies play a vital role in protecting their nations from external and internal threats, such as terrorism, espionage, and the spread of weapons of mass destruction. Intelligence agencies also safeguard the economic well-being of their nation states against foreign threats, and support their native law eforcement agencies in detecting and preventing serious crime.