Forensic Science Technician
"Crime Investigation" By: Nolan Bostwick Hour 4
Basic Information
- Identify physical evidence from crime scenes
- Work out in the field
- Study bodies in the lab
- Study blood
- Analyze body fluids
- Study fingerprints/impressions
- Trace evidence
- Examine drugs
- Recobstruct crime scenes with certain observations
Pros & Cons
Pro- earn up to around $73,000 a year (good salary for a nice house and family)
Pro- safety of the police (protected by them)
Con- in harm of danger (at crime scene, something could got wrong)
Con- a lot of work (most of the time since you have many steps in finding the answer)
Con- work a lot of hours in a week (have to go and work sometimes in the middle of the night to investigate crime scene)
Needed to Succeed
College- Bachelors degree, chemistry minor, mathematics, public speaking, technical writing
Colleges-Can Attend
Carroll University
- instate (so you don't have to travel far)
- schooling with living good (so you can live on campus and have a good living space)
- not a huge university (so it's not overcrowded and have a comfortable time)
Cons
- number of boys and girls uneven (uncomfortable in a class with uneven with girls and boys)
-expensive (some families might not be able to afford it)
- only 299 graduates from school (not a high rate for graduates)
100 N East Ave, Waukesha, WI 53186
Marian University
- expensive (some can't afford)
- division 3 athletics (if you want to play sports in college, not a good team)
- girls to boys rate uneven (more girls than boys)
Pro
-70% of freshman return (come back, so must be good)
- smaller school (not so crowded and have space)
- instate (not far from where you live)
http://www.marianuniversity.edu
45 S National Ave, Fond du Lac, WI 54935
University of Oregon
- division 1 athletics (if you like sports this is a good place)
- 85% of freshman return (high rate of returning)
- on campus housing (good spacious area to live, and on campus so you don't live far)
Con
- really expensive (may not be able to afford it especially if you don't live in state)
- out of state (far to travel and away from where you lived)
- boys to girls rate uneven (rate uneven so not comfortable in classes)
1585 E 13th Ave, Eugene, OR 97403
Associations
American Academy of Forensics Sciences
American Board of Criminalists
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Citations
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