Today our legal system relies heavily and borrows from the Forensic sciences with their various applications to examine evidence and determine the causes and other facts in solving both criminal as well as civil law suits.

The scope of the forensic science has evolved over the years to include several branches that use natural scientific techniques and methods to examine and determine several legal and criminal evidences. It is said that the forensic science as such originate and began to be developed around 212 BC and even as early as 7th century, humans had developed the system of finger printing as unique mark of identification.

Over the years people have begun referring to the field as forensics thus replacing the long phrasing terms. This has now become universally acceptable term and is also used as a misnomer to mean and refer to as a synonym for ‘legal things and legitimate’ phrases.

Since the term forensics has become universally accepted term and is synonymous with criminal field related scientific study, the new phrase has also found a place in the dictionaries where it is mentioned next to the original term.

Forensic science seemed have been developed and used extensively even during the Roman Empire. History records show that an assembly of public peers would be convened to evidence the proceedings of a criminal case where both the accused and the accuser would be given chance to argue their case.

Who ever had the best argumentative, verbose and demonstrative skills and could demonstrate logic based and forensic science based evidence clearly emerged the winner and often it was this skill that led to the victory in legal battles very much like our modern day courts where lawyers and attorneys use their skills to argue the case.

In a way the science of a Crime Scene Investigation as well as forensics study seem to be apparently overlapping and related through very different and distinctive in their final purpose. The role of a Crime Scene Investigator is more to do with discovery, collection, documenting and preserving of physical evidence at site that is later used to present along with evidence as identification in the court to be able to apprehend the perpetrator.

Crime Scene Investigation is a multi disciplinary science that involves both scientific knowledge as well as other areas comprising of logic, law as well as mathematics etc.