How would your work affect people? – Forensic Science Zone

Question: How would your work affect people?
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Asked by messedup to Shane, Anna, Craig, Richard, Sue on 24 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by 10mrfut.
- Shane Pennington-Cooper answered on 16 Jun 2011:
  
  Hello messed up.
  
  If you are referring to my research then with funding I would be able to create a natural non chemically enhanced cure for reducing the size and even killing cancerous cells. The theory behind it works, I just need funding to create this with the help of the genetics division in UTAH to create it. Technically I would be able to make people who live with cancer live longer and become healthier and hopefully remove any cancerous cells depending on the severity of it.
- Richard Case answered on 23 Jun 2011:
  
  Hi messedup and 10mrfut….
  
  Well it affects lots of different people in lots of different ways:
  
  VICTIMS OF CRIME – It helps them to achieve justice and feel a little safer 🙂
  FAMILY OF VICTIMS – It brings closure and a confidence in the justice system 🙂
  ME – It brings me job satisfaction 🙂
  CRIMINALS – It hopefully gets them punished so that they will not commit further crime 🙂
  STUDENTS IN IASGMOOH – I hope it brings you knowledge so you can go on and make great career choices 🙂
- Anna Williams answered on 24 Jun 2011:
  
  Hi messed up and 10mrfut,
  My job, like most forensic scientists’, affects lots of different people. The most important people it affects are the people whose relatives have died in a crime or a disaster. The information I can provide about a body or a skeleton can help to identify it, which then means that the relatives and family of the dead person can get the body back, and know 100% that it is the right body. This is very important to get right – can you imagine how awful it would be if the family got the wrong body back? Getting the right body back means that the family can properly begin to grieve for their loved one, give them a proper funeral, and say goodbye properly. If we didn’t do that, the family would never know for sure if their relative was still out there, and possibly alive, and it would be devestating.
  
  My job also helps people by giving information to the police that might be useful in solving a crime, so it helps to make convictions, and send guilty people to jail. This is important, because then ordinary people can feel safer in their houses, knowing that more murderers and psychopaths are locked up. It enables communities, including children to feel safer.
  
  My research can help other forensic scientists and investigators, but giving them new ways of solving some of the problems that they are faced with, like, for example, how long has that person been dead for? or how long ago did that fracture happen? If I help other scientists do their job more easily and more accurately, then that helps to solve more crimes and identify more people, which helps the relatives and the communities again.
  
  My job also (hopefully) affects the students I teach and interact with (like you!) It hopefully inspires them to find out more about the subject, and to get involved when they can, and can maybe encourage them to become forensic anthropologists in the future, which in turn would increase the amount of research being done, and improve the techniques and methods forensic scientists use, which will eventually mean more dead bodies are identified, and more relatives are helped….so it is all a big cycle of improving science and helping people!!

Question: How would your work affect people?

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