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R.A. Riess was a magistrate and professor of Law in Austria who introduced the term “Criminalistics.”
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The facts establishing that a particular crime has occurred and the “body” or basic elements of crime are described by the Latin term:
What is Corpus delicti
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Which of the following individuals established one of the world’s first police crime laboratories in Lyon, France in 1910?
What is Edmond Locard
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Forensic Science differs from the traditional sciences because the results of physical evidence examination are:
What is used in Legal Proceedings
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J.Edgar Hoover established the Los Angeles Police Department forensic laboratory the first of its kind in the United States.
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Calvin Goddard established a crime lab in Chicago in 1929 and developed a comparison microscope for the examination of fired bullets
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Which of the following acronyms refers to a computer database of DNA profiles?
What is CODIS
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Which of the following individuals is known as the “Father of Forensic Toxicology”?
What is Mathieu Orfila
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Which of the following would not be considered as a manner of death? natural homicide suicide asphyxiation accident
What is asphyxiation
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AFIS is computer database containing images of bullets and cartridge cases.
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A well tested scientific hypothesis is known as a theory.
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Modus operandi refers to:
What is The habits of an unidentified offender
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Which of the following individuals developed an anthropometric system for human identification in the 1890’s?
What is Alphonse Bertillon
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Which of the following involves the study of diseases and the bodily changes caused by those diseases?
What is pathology
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A forensic pathologist may specialize in the “profiling” of perpetrators in serial murder or serial rapist cases.
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Criminalistics is a forensic science discipline that involves the recognition, identification, individualization, and evaluation of physical evidence using methods of science.
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In forensic science the term “individualization refers to:
What is A jigsaw fit between two pieces of a broken drinking glass
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Which of the following forensic organizations is involved with the certification of forensic scientist?
What is ABC
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The science which examines the effects of extraneous materials such as poisons on the human body is known as:
What is toxicology
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The objective of classification is to understand the nature and sequence of events which created a particular item of evidence.
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Demonstrating that two separate objects were at one time a single object is an example of individualization.
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List three contributions that can be made by the forensic examination of physical evidence?
What is 1. Linking a victim to a suspect 2. Identifying the chemical nature of unknown powders 3. Corroborating statements made by witnesses
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Which of the following forensic organizations is involved with the accreditation of forensic laboratories?
What is ASCLD/LAB
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Name at least three factors that can be determined by a Forensic Anthropologist examining skeletal remains
What is Whether the remains are of human or animal origin Skeletal abnormalities and skeletal trauma The age, gender, and stature of the individual The racial origin of the individual in some situations
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Forensic scientists can never prove that they are absolutely right.
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