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This man invented a way to identify prisoners
Who is Alphonse Bertillom
Where is the Los Angeles Police Department?
The application of science to the criminal and civil laws that are enforced by police agencies.
What is Forensic Science?
This unit examines discharged bullets, cartridge cases and shotgun shells.
What is the Firearms Unit?
Analyzing Physical Evidence, Providing Expert Testimony and Furnishing Training for those who process crime scenes
What are the functions of a Forensic Scientist?
This man believed that when 2 objects come into contact with each other there is exchange of materials between them.
Who is Edmond Locard?
Daubert determined this person is responsible for determining if evidence is reliable and admissible in court.
Who is the trial judge?
What is Locards Exchange Principle?
This unit studies handwriting and typewriting, analyzes paper and ink and examines indented writings.
What is the Document Examination Unit?
Forensic Scientists are considered this kind of witness when they testify in a court of law.
What is and Expert Witness?
This man is considered to be the Father of Forensic Toxicology.
Who is Mathieu Orfila?
Under the directorship of this man the FBI first organized a national lab that offered forensic services to all law enforcement agencies in the country.
Who is J. Edgar Hoover?
Anthropometry.
What is the first system of personal identification?
This unit perfomrs DNA profiling on dried bloodstains and compares hairs and fibers.
What is the Biology Unit?
A forensic scientist should be an advocate of this when they testify at a trial.
What is Truth?
This man discovered that blood can be grouped into what we know as Blood Types.
Who is Karl Landsteiner?
This describes the phenomenon that has caused juries to insist there must be forensic evidence in order to convict a defendant.
What is the CSI Effect?
An individual whom the court determines to possess knowledge relevant to the trial that is not expected of the typical layperson.
What is an Expert Witness?
This unit examines and records physical evidence.
What is the Photography Unit?
Forensic Scientist participate in training law enforcement personnel in this activity.
What is proper recognition, collection and preservation of physical evidence?
This man developed the first DNA profiling test in 1984
Who is Sir Alec Jefferys?
Two major reasons for the for the increase in the number of crime labs in the US since the 1960's.
What are increases in crime rates, illicit drug seizures must be analyzed in a lab, the advent of DNA testing and criminals must be advised of their right to remain silent?
Aprocess that uses strict guidelines to ensure careful and systematic collection, organization and analysis of information.
What is the Scientific Method?
This Unit compares marks made by tools.
What is the Forensics Unit?