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Toxicology
Who is Mathieu Orfila
100
Use of science and technology to enforce civil and criminal law.
What is forensic science?
100
The principle that there is a transfer of evidence between anything that crosses contact.
Locard's Exchange Principle
100
Method used to obtain confessions before the 17th century.
What is torture?
100
famous author that gave inspiration to many forensic scientists and influential forensic figures.
Who is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
200
Fingerprinting
Who is Francis Galton?
200
The scientific examination of physical evidence and use of technology
What is Criminalistics?
200
Evidence taken by police but not allowed to be used in the OJ Simpson Trial, explain why not.
What is contamination of the crime scene, possible tampering and planting evidence.
200
Poison used to kill people in early history that was hard to trace from lack of tests.
What is arsenic?
200
Father of microscopic forensics.
Who is Walter McCrone?
300
Anthropometry
Who is Alphonse Bertillon?
300
The process of distinguishing differences among people based on certain body measurements.
What is anthropometry?
300
Used on shell casings, recovered bullets, weapons and gunpowder patterns at crime scenes. (what is the name of this type of science?)
What is ballistics?
300
Father of forensic publications.
Who is Hans Gross?
400
Ballistics
Who is Calvin Godard?
400
This determines the presence of controlled substances and the identification poisons.
What is toxicology?
400
The first crime lab location opened in 1923 in the United States.
What is Los Angeles, California?
400
System used prior to fingerprinting that measures physical appearance for classification. Case that ended this system.
What is the Bertillion System of Measurements. What is the Will West case.
400
He was the father of the first crime lab, starting in the attic of a police station in 1910.
Who is Edmond Locard?
500
Blood Stain Identification
Who is Leone Lattes?
500
Includes psychological angle: examining crime scene for motives, traits, and behaviors
What is Criminology?
500
Microscopic identification and comparison of evidence such as hairs, fibers, woods, soils, building materials, insulation and other materials. (what kind of science)
What is microscopy?
500
Name the 5 federal crime laboratories in the United States.
What is 1) FBI Laboratory 2) DEA Laboratories 3) Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Laboratories 4) U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory 5) U.S. Postal Inspection Service Laboratories
500
He is the father of the FBI. He is the reason that directors of the FBI can only serve for 2 terms. He did some shady/shifty stuff during his tenure at the FBI.
Who is J. Edgar Hoover?
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