What is the importance of chemistry among criminology students?
It’s fundamental. You would need chemistry to analyze any soots/residues from arsons; analyze powder from gunshots. How about a drug found on a suspect? Even the dye found in a cloth fragment. When you are investigating a crime, you look for physical evidence. That means chemicals in many different forms. Even DNA is a chemical compound. Is a substance thought to be adulterated? Chemical analysis will give the answer. Even with an oil spill, often chemical analysis will determine which oil well it may have come from. In trying to determine if North Korea set of an atomic bomb, the atmosphere was analyzed for specific radioactive isotopes. Yes, chemistry is everywhere in forensic analysis.
