No Bones About It
Dust in the Wind
Gone Viral
Jury Duty
That's Gross
100
This practice emerged in part from Bertillon's anthropometric system.
What is fingerprinting?
100
A common stain described as congealed dust.
What is mud?
100
In the early 20th century, pathologists sometimes gained fame for performing this procedure.
What is an autopsy?
100
An inexpensive booklet published in 1829 contained the rare illustration of a coroner’s jury inspecting a corpse.
What is a chapbook?
100
Despite its often alarming elements, this is a space of emotional and physical equilibrium.
What is a crime scene?
200
During the 19th century, suicide increasingly came to be viewed not as sin or crime, but as a symptom of this.
What is mental illness?
200
It distinguishes dust from mud and grime.
What is pulverization?
200
The detection of scar tissue on a fragment of flesh secured the conviction of this suspected killer.
Who is Hawley Harvey Crippen?
200
Inquests took place here, which traditionally functioned as a public house in early 19th‑century London.
What is a tavern?
200
A forensic field that focuses more on crime scene specifics than on general theories from theoretical or medically based approaches.
What is criminalistics?
300
Contrary to idea that suicide was a taboo subject, it was often reported in this public medium.
What are newspapers?
300
The transfer of physical evidence between objects in a crime scene.
What is Locard’s Exchange Principle?
300
Who is Bernard Spillsbury?
300
Experts historically enjoyed this type of legal protection shielding them from lawsuits over their courtroom testimony.
What is expert immunity?
300
The ability to keep one's own thoughts and reactions in check during an investigation.
What is introspective self-discipline?
400
This case is considered to have laid down the first rules on the admissibility of opinion evidence in common law.
What is Folkes v. Chadd?
400
This category of dust is specific to what one does for work, and varies from job to job.
What is professional dust?
400
A London-based printer‑publisher, known for producing radical, execution, trial‑based, musical, and popular literature cheaply.
Who is John Fairburn?
400
The Chief Justice who first allowed the use of an expert witness in a case.
Who is Lord Mansfield?
400
The development of scientific approaches toward criminal identification was heavily dependent on supporting technologies, also known as this.
What is "technoscience"?
500
An expert witness must have this, going beyond the knowledge of an average person, gained through education, training, skill, or experience.
What is specialized knowledge?
500
Phrase that sums up Locard's theory still critical in forensic science today.
What is "every contact leaves a trace"?
500
He wrote about his work in "Forty Years of Murder", a best selling memoir published in 1978.
Who is Keith Simpson?
500
This 1923 legal standard admitted expert testimony only if the scientific technique was “generally accepted” in its field.
What is the Frye Standard?
500
Gross used this term used to describe an Investigating Officer's report about a crime scene.
What is a touchstone?