Entomology
Egg, Larva, Pupa, Adult.
What are the 4 main developmental stages of an insect?
Comparative and dental profiling.
What are the two main types of dental identification?
The study of the human mind and its functions with applications to the law.
What is forensic psychology?
Use of unverified methods, drylabbing, falsifying data, and misrepresentation of data.
What are unethical laboratory practices?
Heat transfer through a medium such as air or liquid.
What is convection?
Post-mortem interval, movements of the body, peri-mortem trauma, presence of drugs and toxins, child and elderly abuse.
What are the uses of forensic entomology?
Dental identification, disaster victim identification, dental age estimation, human abuse, bitemark analysis, civil litigation.
What are the applications for forensic odontology?
Ability of an individual to understand what is going on around them.
What is legal competence?
Permits viewing of samples at much greater magnification and resolution than is possible by light microscopes.
What is a scanning electron microscope (SEM)?
An unacceptable difference between expected and observed performance.
What is failure?
Time, place, and stage of decay are all factors of these fluctuations in insect colonization.
What is insect succession?
A filling that shows up on antemortem records but not on postmortem records is an example of this.
What is an unexplainable discrepancy?
Individual cannot be held responsible if at the time of the crime they lack substantial capacity either to appreciate the criminality of their conduct or to conform their conduct to the requirements of the law as a result of a mental disease or defect.
What is the American Law Institute Standard (1962)?
Multiple incidents, lack of remorse, intentional, cause of significant harm, previous sanctions.
What are qualities of a severe ethical violation?
Large-scale investigations into cause and liability in cases involving engineering.
What are legal cases in forensic engineering?
Individual species characteristics, weather and seasonality, presence of a maggot mass, food type, drugs and other toxins, geographic region, etc.
What are factors that affect PMI?
Standard of care (malpractice), personal injury, dental fraud.
What are examples of civil litigation cases in forensic odontology?
An offender with above average IQ, social capability, usually college educated, good hygiene and housekeeping habits. Examples are Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy.
Study on forensic sciences and how to improve them - the study identified a lack of standards and enforcement.
What is the NAS Report (2009)?
Requires oxidizing agent (oxygen); decompose with heat, vaporize and become gases. Wood is an example.
What is solid fuel?
Usually the first to colonize, tend to focus on natural orifices and wounds.
Dental wear, periodontal condition, secondary dentine apposition, root resorption/translucency.
What are factors of post-formation tooth changes for dental age estimation?
An offender that attacks and kills quickly, usually as a result of a vision or mission they feel they must perform.
What is an act-focused offender profile?
A type of trace evidence that can often be grouped by racial origin and body location.
What is hair evidence?
Rise in internal pressure of concrete causing internal cracking and thermal expansion; leads to "flaking" or "chipping" of concrete.
What is spalling?