Criminology and Forensics are two branches of "study" that have come under scrutiny in recent years, as a result of the repeated discovery that they are, technically speaking, complete nonsense. Nevertheless, thousands of people each year enroll in Criminology and Forensics programs, and many more are incarcerated on the basis of "evidence" presented by Forensics and Criminology "experts".

In 2015, a national conference was convened in response to a 2009 finding by Congress that "DNA was the only (barely) reliable forensic science." (Gotta love that promptness for such an important topic!). The 2015 conference further underscored these conclusions, and found significant problems with

"accuracy and error rates of forensic analyses, and sources of potential bias and human error in interpretation by forensic experts, fingerprints, firearms examination, tool marks, bite marks, impressions (tires, footwear), bloodstain-pattern analysis, handwriting, hair, coatings (for example, paint), chemicals (including drugs), materials (including fibers), fluids, serology, and fire and explosive analysis"

among other methodologies. Of course, this has resulted in little or no appreciable change in the use of these phrenology-like "sciences" to convict citizens. (And while the findings here are for the United States, this remains a problem throughout the world. Of course, with the world's largest per-capita prison population, these problems are significantly magnified in the US.)

[Editor's note: it is apparent from the average word length in this post, the punctuation style, and the particular protrusions of this poster's forehead that this person is criminally minded.]

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