What is the difference between Forensic Science and Criminology ?
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Forensic science is analyzing the physical evidence to link a suspect to a crime. Criminology is studying why a person, the motives involved, would commit a crime.
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Another good fan of Jodie Foster's!! Awesome. I want to go into criminology myself. I don't know much about it, but I know qutie a bit on forensic science. Watch Forensic Files on CourTV and that give tons of info. You get to go to crime scenes and stuff. Like Clarice Starling on my favorite movie "The Silence of the Lambs". She got to check a body out, what you would do if you have to. Also, that deals with DNA and DNA encoding. Good Luck, and reply back so we can talk about Jodie.
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To steal one from Archie Bunker--what are you going to do?  be a sociologist?  \n\nPsycology is both more apt to lead to a job, and is a harder (more fact, less opinion) science than sociology.
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most colleges are now starting to offer forensic science and forensic chemistry as majors, so check which universities are the best for that. mostly you'll need lots and lots of biology, chemistry, environmental sciences, etc. it's tough! but also very interesting!
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Then you need to google "Criminology"
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Hi,\nI would suggest writing to your local police authority and asking for help. Tryphoning your local police station (not 999/112/911 - the local number will be in the Telephone Directory) and ask for the nearest forensic science/CSI unit. \n\nTom Walvin
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With a BS in Crimiology you can get a job in a police department as a police officer,  in a prison as a correctional officer.  You may get a job in social services or in youth services.\n\nIf you include additional materials to include work in a crime lab.   \n\nAreas of teachings and mangement can be included with higher degrees.
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If you want to go to the crime scene and collect evidence, you'd pretty much need to become a police officer and major in criminal justice.\n\nIf you want to work in the lab and analyze the data, you'd want to major in forensic chemistry (usually offered as a separate chemistry major, sometimes with a biology department)\n\nIf you want to do autopsies, you need to go for your M.D.\n\nNo job will have you do everything, probably because it's inefficient to have an M.D. doing all that work AND there is a conflict of interest. (It's easier to prosecute if 5 independant people analyze the evidence)
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Everyone above is more or less correct - CSIs are actually the people that collect evidence from the scene itself.  They are generally not the people that do the fun experiments in the lab, as it takes a separate skill set to handle and analyse organic material than it does to collect that material without contamination and provide real-time analysis to law enforcement.\n\nThe most obvious difference between real CSIs and the ones you see on TV are that, first, they very rarely speak to suspects or 'do' a whole case; a blood spatter expert may very well just analyse one blood spatter after another, handing out reports stating that this spatter came from this angle, inflicted by an object with such-and-such mass...  a geneticist may extract and analyse DNA from several cases at once without any information as to what effect their results will have on a given case, etc.  \n\nThe most substantial difference between real life and TV, however, is the time factor.  In many parts of North America, the processing time for many lab results is extremely high.  Every week the CSI team barrels through another case; in reality, a single homicide could tie up a small staff for several years, and the suspects very, very rarely confess - a lab tech could spend two years working on a blunt-object murder, wait another three years for appeals to come to an end, and see a suspect whom they've never met locked up for five years while still proclaiming his innocence.  Not quite as fulfilling as TV would have us think.
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Instead of worrying about what courses or majors to take, go backwards, look for actual jobs you'd want to do, then find their job ads and see what the typical experience and education requirements are and THEN find the courses you need to take.  Criminology encompasses a huge range, so try narrowing your interest and go from there.  In the end the diploma specifics doesn't mean a whole lot, you'll find that out in the real world.
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Forensic science (often shortened to forensics) is the application of a broad spectrum of sciences to answer questions of interest to the legal system. This may be in relation to a crime or to a civil action. The use of the term "forensics" in place of "forensic science" could be considered incorrect; the term "forensic" is effectively a synonym for "legal" or "related to courts" (from Latin, it means "before the forum").
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I just graduated from ITT in Indianapolis with a Forensic Science degree and the only thing I can tell you is find a good (and accredited) school to study.  A lot of schools are starting these programs but find one of the best ones available.  You'll be in good shape otherwise!
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Not necessarily.  Criminology would be defined as crime science or the study of crimes and criminals.  Criminal Justice is the application of criminal laws to the prosecution of crimes and the perpetrators thereof, in other words police work.  Somewhere between those two would be criminal forensics or forensic science.\nYou need to decide whether you want to be a police officer, a scientist or a pshychologist.
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1. Coroner is a public official who studies dead bodies.  A pathologist is a scientist who studies diseases.\n2. after-death
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Check out the web links below. I think the answers to your questions are there.\n\nForensic science technicians investigate crimes by collecting and analyzing physical evidence. Often, they specialize in areas such as DNA analysis or firearm examination, performing tests on weapons or on substances such as fiber, glass, hair, tissue, and body fluids to determine their significance to the investigation. Proper collection and storage methods are important to protect the evidence. Forensic science technicians also prepare reports to document their findings and the laboratory techniques used, and they may provide information and expert opinion to investigators. When criminal cases come to trial, forensic science technicians often give testimony, as expert witnesses, on specific laboratory findings by identifying and classifying substances, materials, and other evidence collected at the scene of a crime. Some forensic science technicians work closely with other experts or technicians. For example, a forensic science technician may consult either a medical expert about the exact time and cause of a death or a technician who specializes in DNA typing in hopes of matching a DNA type to a suspect.
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criminal psychology, criminal justice, or psychology
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Pathology has different branches but mostly pathology is the science of tissues with diseases such as cancer. Pathologist's job is to determine if the tissue is healthy or contains a disease whatsoever. They also do autopsies. \n\nOn the other hand, forensic science is science used in public, in a court or in the justice system. Any science, used for the purposes of the law, is a forensic science. So forensic science is a very general term that includes a lot of sciences, while pathology is the science of abnormal tissues.