Basics
Another name for forensic science.
What is criminalistics?
Established the first crime lab in the United States.
Who is August Vollmer?
Fingerprints that are not visible.
What are latent fingerprints?
Public law involving crimes against society.
What is criminal law?
The study and application of science to matters of the law.
What is forensic science?
Maintains the largest crime lab in the world.
What is the FBI?
Evidence found in small quantities.
What is trace evidence?
Private law between individuals or organizations.
What is civil law?
Type of forensic science that deals with drugs and poisons.
What is forensic toxicology?
Ohio's official crime lab.
What is BCI (Bureau of Criminal Investigation)?
Documentation showing possession and transfer of evidence.
What is chain of custody?
To formally accuse a person of a crime in court.
What is indict?
Type of forensic science that uses insects to estimate time and location of death.
What is forensic entomology?
Federal crime lab that handles drugs seized in federal cases.
What is the DEA?
Machine that creates a unique voiceprint from speech.
What is a sound spectrograph?
Pleading guilty to a lesser charge to avoid trial.
What is plea bargaining?
Type of forensic science that determines causes of car accidents and building collapses.
What is forensic engineering?
Crime lab that handles weapons, explosives, alcohol, tobacco, and related taxes.
What is the ATF?
Type of reasoning used to draw conclusions from evidence.
What is deductive reasoning?
A plea that neither admits nor denies guilt.
What is nolo contendere?