Forensic Science: Selected Websites

Offers a series of videos: “2012 Underwater CSI & High Profile Cases”

From the YouTube channel, click the “Browse Videos” tab to go through some of its 382 uploads.

This site lists 14 forensics-related NPR interviews that are available online in their entirety. Topics range from the forensics of the Columbia space shuttle recovery to the history of fingerprinting.

Search for “forensic” and you’ll come up with 79 episodes, articles and media related to the topic. Links in the Nova Science Now section include 10- to 15-minute videos on “Death Detectives,” “Secrets of Lie Detection” and “Criminal Minds: Born or Made?” – each accompanied by a written transcription.

A professional organization dedicated to fostering research, improving practice and encouraging collaboration among forensic science practitioners. Offers resources for students, including lists of forensic links and videos on high-profile cases.

This nonprofit group seeks to prevent and overturn wrongful convictions by providing DNA testing for those on death row. Affiliated with the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University. (Also see the New England Innocence Project.)

After a brief overview of the field, you can scroll down to find individual pages on laboratory operations, evidence, investigations and convictions subfields. The right side of each page features links to multimedia and statistics.

This page gives background on the crime lab, which receives work from all over the state. The description includes their duties, news and statistics for past years. (Also see the Massachusetts State Police Forensic Services Group.)

Few people know that one of the Secret Service's key tasks, in addition to protecting the president, is rooting out counterfeit money. Here, they provide tips and tricks for distinguishing counterfeit bills from authentic ones.

Assembled by the National Library of Medicine, this website features historical case studies, biographies of forensic science pioneers, photo galleries and videos all relating to the human body after death.