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- noun Science-based processing and study of evidence of crimes.
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Examples
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Then in 2001 when I started to evaluate what I really wanted to do, I decided to go into criminalistics.
Criminalistics: Why I want to be like Gil Grissom, but it’s not always like “CSI” | Northern Belle 2010
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Blue-spectrum radiance always suffused the criminalistics bureau at police headquarters, emanating from the confined spaces where lab rats and investigators would peer into microscopes, hunch over dusting stations, and stand at forensic exam tables in their gloves, goggles, and smocks, studying latents and biologicals under a range of light sources.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Skin Deep Jerome Preisler 2010
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All things within the LVPD, including its criminalistics bureau, had a pecking order based on status and seniority.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Skin Deep Jerome Preisler 2010
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The metal plaques visible outside the entry had identified him as the supervisor of the Clark County, Nevada, criminalistics bureau.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Skin Deep Jerome Preisler 2010
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We have detectives and criminalistics personnel that are out there with rakes and shovel.
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We also have processed the scene with our criminalistics bureau.
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But, I mean, this is going to require not only a criminalistics approach to collecting all the evidence and following wherever it leads, but also good police investigation.
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She then worked at Technical Associates, a private criminalistics laboratory in Ventura, California, for six years.
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That evidence is now being extensively analyzed at the criminalistics lab in Quantico, Virginia, the FBI lab.
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But that woman was long gone, replaced by Special Agent Margaret Lukas, a woman who excelled in criminalistics, investigative techniques, the properties of C4 and Semtex explosives, the care and handling of confidential informants.
THE DEVIL’S TEARDROP JEFFERY DEAVER 2003
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