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Specialties in Forensic Science
Specialties in Forensic Science Part II
Miscellaneous
Is it a crime?
Forensic Science
100
Use of dental of tooth records to identify victims and criminals.
What is forensic dentistry?
100
Study of weapons and explosive devices used at crime scenes.
What is ballistics?
100
This city suffered from extreme problems from looting after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
What is New Orleans?
100
A viewpoint on a particular issue.
What is perspective?
100
Genetic material found in the nucleus of your cells.
What is DNA?
200
The science of finding evidence of a crime and using it to help solve cases in court.
What is forensic science?
200
Study and detection of drugs, explosives, and harmful substances in crime scenes.
What is forensic chemistry?
200
This was the approach that Malcolm X took to end racial inequality in the US.
What is violence (or violent civil disobedience).
200
This crime, although not committed on purpose, is still considered to be a crime by most people.
What is accidental crime?
200
A part of the chromosome that determines a specific physical feature.
What is a gene?
300
Studying of the mind of an individual, either the victim or the criminal.
What is forensic psychology?
300
Use computers and technology to aide forensic scientists.
What is database/computer forensics?
300
Dr. Martin Luther King advocated the use of this kind of action to change racial injustice in the United States?
What is non-violence?
300
When a police officer uses his/her power unfairly. (Ex: takes a bribe to not arrest someone)
What is police corruption?
300
The use of DNA to identify criminals in a court case.
What is DNA fingerprinting?
400
Use of bones and old evidence to solve crimes.
What is forensic anthropology?
400
Look at blood samples to identify DNA matches at a crime scene.
What is forensic serology (or DNA analysis)?
400
Location in the constitution of our basic freedoms.
What is the Bill of Rights?
400
Stealing during or after a natural disaster.
What is looting?
400
Name one law enforcement group that might employ a forensic scientist.
What is CIA/FBI/Local Police?
500
Field that tries to determine the cause of death or injury.
What is forensic pathology?
500
Study the use and effects of drugs and poisons on the human body.
What is forensic toxicology?
500
This was a letter written by Dr. Martin Luther King where he urged the black and the white community to do something now to end racial injustice.
What is Letter from Birmingham Jail?
500
Purposefully breaking the law because you do not agree with it in hopes of getting the law changed.
What is civil disobedience?
500
True of False: a forensic scientist usually focuses in more than one area of expertise?
What is true?