INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF POLLEN IN CRIME TRACKING
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.53555/fosc.v8i11.2158Keywords:
Pollen grain, forensic palynology, forensic botany, crimeAbstract
Forensic experts rely on many basic scientific principles to detect various crimes. One of these sciences is forensic botany, which is concerned with plant life in order to obtain information about crimes. Either from leaves, seeds, or pollen. In this research, we will address palynology as reliable evidence that contributes to the detection of crime the research will provide a comprehensive review of the definition of pollen science and forensic pollen science as some of the most important and strongest evidence that applies scientific methods and techniques in the investigation of crime. Introducing pollen grains from a biological, structural, and morphological point of view. This study also looks at how pollen grains can be collected from different surfaces and how to look at them. Despite the role of pollen science as a powerful and effective guide in legal cases to solve criminal cases by proving or refuting relationships between people and crime scenes, it remains rarely used throughout the world. For a number of reasons, including the lack of information available about this technique and the very limited number of professionals trained to do forensic pollen examination work, there has been very limited attempt to use pollen evidence in criminal or civil cases. So in this paper recommended to pay attention to this vital and important aspect of pure science, which clearly serves to reveal the ambiguity of accidents or explain some unclear scenes by establishing academic and professional programs to deal with pollen professionally and to benefit from the outputs of those programs in various matters, forensic palynology being one of them.
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