The father of modern ballistics and one of the creators of the comparison microscope
Who is Calvin Goddard
The year that the first publicly funded crime lab by the LAPD was established.
What is 1923
These are the official American Academy of Forensic Science (AAFS) Ethical Standards.
*10 points for each, 100 for full credit*
What are: Accurate representation of qualifications, maintaining the integrity of evidence, true and accurate representation of data, clear and complete documentation, the impartiality of the examination, impartiality of testimony, confidentiality and disclosure, and reporting violations of code by colleagues.
This is the difference between a modus operandi and a signature
The names of your student volunteers
Samantha Buck
Stephen Hostetler
Brailey Moeder
Nicole Wray
Who is J. Edgar Hoover
A database of digital ballistic images of bullets and casings.
What is IBIS?
These are the 3 ethical standards
Legal, Professional, Personal
This category of tests evaluates personality, psychopathology, and mental functioning.
What are personality inventories?
The Austrian man who coined the criminalistics.
Who is Hans Gross?
The indexing system that was implemented in 1990 by the FBI
What is Combined DNA Index System (CODIS)
A letter, graffiti, and contracts are examples of this type of forensic evidence
What are Questioned Documents
Confirmation, selection, and prosecutorial are 3 categories of what common issue in forensic science.
What is bias
This forensic specialist is focused on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illnesses and can prescribe medications and order laboratory tests.
What is a forensic psychiatrist?
These are the factors that affect the progress of tests such as fingerprinting and DNA.
What is the priority of cases, backlog, and funding?
The field that utilized the measurement and proportion of body parts, established by Alphonse Bertillon
What is Anthropometry
A process that the crime lab uses to prove that it operates at a level that follows industry standards.
What is Accreditation
Ethics plays a role in forensic science, including these four aspects.
These are the aspects that make up a criminal profile.
(50 points for each, 400 points for all)
What is the analysis of behavior, organized vs. disorganized offenders, victimology, modus operandi/signature, trophy/souvenir, crime scene staging, and body disposal changes?
These are the items that can be looked at under the comparison microscope.
*50 points each, list all for 400 points*
The father of modern pathology
Who is Rudolph Virchow
The methods for fingerprint testing (there are 5)
What are dusting, chemical processing, CA fuming, photography, and comparison?
These are some common ethical issues in the forensic field.
*20 points each, 500 points for all*
What are: misrepresenting qualifications and credentials, pressured testimony, omitting unfavorable information, falsified data or notes, and biased examination?
These are the two types of projective tests in behavioral science.
*Bonus 100 points if you can describe each of them*
What are the Rorschach inkblot test and Thematic Apperception test?
These are the two categories that logic can be divided into.
What are deduction reasoning and inductive reasoning?