is the new computer program for analyzing blood stains. This new technology allows the investigators, with the assistance of “laptop computers and printers,” to analyze blood stains without ever leaving the crime scene. Therefore, this innovation enables the investigators to “catch the bad guy faster.” The program is also 80 per cent more accurate than the older method of “taping strings to blood marks on the wall,” which was very time consuming and not accurate (“Gruesome,” 1997: 8). Moreover, X-ray technology allows the forensic scientists to identify the victim through dental X-rays. Many victims’ bodies that are found may be beyond recognition, due to some horrible mutation of the body or by decomposition. However, “a forensic odontologist” can identify the victims’ identity through dental X-rays records, in order to speed up the investigation (Brady, 1997: 26). The investigators may then be able to link the guilty person to the victim, and thus prevent the accused from committing a similar crime. A computer program called Aldus Photostyler is another new technological innovation, which is used in the case of missing people. Children and youths go missing every day and are often not found untill years later. However, with this new technology experts can age the photos of missing children, in order to identify them in later years. On the contrary, this program can also be used to make the face on the picture look younger for “war-crime investigations” (“Gruesome,” 1997: 8). Moreover, today’s technology also allows for the police investigators to have a faster and more reliable connection between the crime and “criminals.” Many crimes are of such a horrific nature, that police investigators need Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System (ViCLAS) database to have that connection. ViCLAS is a database that “indexes homicid...
