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This dimension names the specific kind of evidence a forensic discipline actually examines, DNA, fingerprints, ballistics or digital data. Wikipedia notes that forensic science covers "the analysis of DNA, fingerprints, bloodstain patterns, firearms, ballistics, toxicology, microscopy, and fire debris analysis." Browsing this way collects every discipline that examines the same kind of evidence.

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1893 1
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1. Criminalistics (Wikipedia)
Criminalistics, History, Maturation subsection
Quote, Criminalistics, History, Maturation subsection
Handbook for Coroners, police officials, military policemen was written by the Austrian criminal jurist Hans Gross in 1893, and is generally acknowledged as the birth of the field of criminalistics.
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