Forensic Sciences

The opening of the judicial authority to forensic sciences in the last decade has created the context for the application of the lesser known disciplines within criminalistics, such as anthropology, botany and geology to crime scenarios. This course therefore has the goal of introducing students to a cautious application of natural sciences to the realm of justice and human rights.

At the end of the course the student should have acquired the cognitive tools for correctly evaluating the difficulties and peculiarities of the application of natural sciences to the more frequent forensic scenarios (maltreatment, homicide, etc); furthermore he/she will acquire basic notions related to the methods applied and to the main disciplines more frequently involved