I am sorry to disappoint you, but Dexter and CSI are pure fiction (often ludicrously so), and do not even remotely resemble reality. No one does the things they do on CSI, for example. That ridiculous show combines the jobs of five or six different people into one, and much of what you see them do is impossible. CSIs collect evidence, they don't analyze it (they're not scientists); evidence is analyzed in laboratories by scientists (with college degrees in the appropriate science), and each scientist specializes in a few specific types of related analyses, not a wide variety of different ones; investigation of the crime (interviewing witnesses and suspects, making arrests, etc.) is done by detectives, not by CSIs or forensic scientists. There is no such job where one person does all three. Therefore, enjoy these shows as works of fiction, but recognize them as just that - FICTION. Don't believe anything you see on them when it comes to accuracy of forensic science procedures or techniques.
If you want to learn how REAL forensic scientists do things, go to the library and pick up a book written by a forensic scientist. Some good web sites you can check out regarding blood spatter pattern analysis:
http://www.bloodspatter.com/BPATutorial.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodstain_pattern_analysis
http://iabpa.org/
Good luck with your project! Just make sure you consult reliable sources of information - do NOT rely on what you see on television.
Bob Parsons, F-ABC
Forensic Chemist
Indian River Crime Laboratory
Ft. Pierce, FL
"The forensic scientist's goal is the evenhanded use of all available information to determine the facts and, subsequently, the truth."
American Academy of Forensic Sciences web site, Choosing a Career page
"If the law has made you a witness, remain a man of science. You have no victim to avenge, no guilty or innocent person to convict or to save - you must bear testimony within the limits of science."
Dr. P.C.H. Brouardel, 19th Century French Medico-legalist
Hello, I'm a high school student and I'm working in this project about blood pattern analysis and I would like to ask you some questions about this field.
What are the educational requirements to become a blood patter analyst?
Do you need any special license to work?
Are you still studying in order to maintaining yourself update with the field and technology?
There are some TV series as DEXTER or CSI which show us how the life of an blood pattern analysis can be at work, are this conceptions relevant to your daily work?
How is a daily day of work?
What is approximately your salary?
In DEXTER we see different types of experiments that he does in order to know how a person was killed in CSI we can see this two, are this experiments real or you use a different method?
Thank you so much.
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