adjective
- of, relating to, or characteristic of criminology or the scientific investigation of crime
Usage: formal; technical
Examples
- The detective applied criminalistic methods to analyze the evidence at the crime scene.
- Criminalistic techniques have revolutionized how law enforcement solves cases.
- The university offers a course in criminalistic analysis for forensic science students.
- Modern criminalistic practices rely heavily on DNA evidence and digital forensics.
- Her criminalistic expertise helped identify the suspect through trace evidence.