The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows thatpolice and detectivesare growing at a rate of 3 percent, as fast as the national average for all other occupations, and predicts that 23,800 new positions will be needed between 2022 and 2032 (BLS 2024). Specific data for forensic sket...
Forensic anthropologists are increasingly taking on advocacy roles [47,171,172,173], though there remains some belief that advocacy diminishes the reliability and trustworthiness of the forensic scientist (e.g., Ditrich [174]; Fulginiti [175]). We reject the narratives that forensic ...