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Founding fathers
Crime Units and Fields
The Mob and Early Units
Eyewitnesses/other MisID
Laws and Stuff
100
Locards Exchange Principle
Who created the idea that, "every contact between two things leaves a trace"
100
The application of chemistry, physics, and geology to the identification and comparison of crime scene evidence is a function of this crime unit .
What is the physical science unit?
100
Another name for "Organized Crime"
What is the "MOB?"
100
Cultural differences may affect how these individuals perceive an event when observing a crime.
What are eyewitnesses?
100
This federal court case noted that evidence must follow the "general acceptance" of the scientific community in order to be admitted into court.
What is Frye v. US?
200
Created one of the first ballistics crime labs in in the 1920's in Chicago.
Who is Calvin Goddard?
200
Examines any organic matter, which includes the cells within bodies ...
What is the biology unit?
200
2 people convicted of murdering 2 people during a payroll heist in the 1920's.
Who is Sacco and Vanzetti?
200
Age, physical environment, trauma, background knowledge all play a role.
What are the influences affecting an eyewitness?
200
units commonly associated with forensic field work.
What are photography, evidence collection, and latent fingerprinting?
300
Created the term "anthropometry", used to measure various body parts for comparison.
Who is Alphonse Bertillon
300
This forensic profession involves the profiling of a suspect’s behaviors and the determination of mental competence.
What is psychiatry?
300
Federal Mandate that Prohibited the sale, production, transportation or use of alcoholic beverages.
What is the 18th Amendment?
300
False confessions, informants, eyewitness mis-identification, inaccurate science
What are the 4 leading causes of wrongful convictions?
300
These rules gave judges scientific guidelines to follow when accepting evidence into their courtroom
What are the Federal Rules of Evidence (702)?
400
Created systematic fingerprint identification system.
Who is Francis Galton?
400
Laboratories, Field work, technology, and the medical profession.
What are the 4 major fields of forensics?
400
Matched the bullets to the guns in the Sacco and Vanzetti case as well as the St. Valentines Day Massacre.
Who is Calvin Goddard?
400
The scientific development that led to the conclusion that eyewitnesses may be wrong up to 50-75% of the time.
What is DNA analysis?
400
photography, evidence collection, and latent fingerprinting are in this one general forensic field
What is field work?
500
Wrote the first books that suggested using various fields of science to find and implicate criminals.
Who is Hans Gross?
500
The identification of drugs and poisons is a function belonging to the lab called________________
What is toxicology?
500
This instrument was used to match the bullets in the St. Valentines Day Massacre and in the Sacco and Vanzetti case.
What is the comparison microscope?
500
Due to DNA exonerations, it is now thought that this group of people may be incorrect as much as 50 to 75% of the time.
What are eyewitnesses?
500
In this 1993 case, trial judges must assume ultimate responsibility for acting as agatekeepers in judging the admissibility and reliability of scientific evidence.
What is a. Daubert v. Merrell Dow