Forensic Science Divisions
This profession looks at Ransom notes, Wills, Suicide Notes, Notes left by killers, False printed documents, Ids, and they analyze handwriting.
What is Forensic Document examiners?
Any fixed communication method between two or more individuals?
What is a document?
Where is a 3-D footprint most likely to be found?
In Sand or Mud
What is Luminol used for in a crime scene?
It can be used to find cleaned up blood from a crime scene using a UV light
They Identify evidence that can be used in a court of law.
What is a Criminalist?
A substance with the ability to dissolve other substances to form solution.
What is solvent?
What is the difference between a Class Characteristic and an Identifying Characteristic in footprint analysis?
Class is Shape, Design, and Size. Identifying wear patterns that have damaged the shoe by creating nicks, cuts, and debris stuck in the shoe.
How does height affect the size of a blood droplet
as the height increases the droplet increases in size
1. Pathologist Identifies Cause, Manner and Mechanism of death, other looks for toxins (drugs, alcohol, poisons) in the system.
2. One performs autopsies which cover the whole body, and the other takes specific tissue samples.
What is the difference between a Forensic Pathologist and a Forensic Toxicologist?
Hand writing, signature, ink identification, paper identoification, counterfeiting and rubber stamp impressions.
What may a forensic examination be consisted of?
What are the 4 kinds of determinations u can get when analyzing a shoeprint?
Identification, Exclusion, Inconclusive, and Undetermined
What trend would you see between spatter shape and impact angles?
As the impact angle decreases the more the splatter shape elongates pointing to the direction of travel.
They analyze teeth, and bite marks.
What is a Forensic Odontologist?
Distance pigment traveled/ distance soluvent straveled
How do you properly calculate Rf and what method uses this formula?
From the image provided, which of the following are Identifying Characteristics?
1, 2, 5
With the image provided, in what direction was the person running in?
South