Criminalistics midterm

definition of forensic science

application of science to criminal and civil laws.

What does forensic science encompass

The myriad of professions that use their skills to aid law enforcement officals in conducting investigations.

What is crinimalistics?

Scientific methods to the recognition, collections, identifications, and comparison of physical evidence generated by crinimal or illegal civil activity

What is the CSI effect?

The public believes that every crime scene will yield forensic evidence, and it produces unrealistic expectations that a prosecutor’s case should always be bolsted and supported by forensic science.iH

Who was the founder of Criminal identifications?

Alphonse Bertillon

Who was the first to definitive the study of fingerprints and developed methodology?

Francis Galton

Who discovered that blood can be grouped?

Karl Landsteiner

Who devised simple procedures for blood groups?

Leone Lattes

Who was able to determine a particular gun that fires a bullet and required a comparison to the bullet with a test?

Calvin Goddard

Who refined the technique of an examination by using the comparison mircoscope to test and find a suspects weapon?

Calvin Goddard

Who developed the fundament principles of document examinations and responsible for the acceptance of documents as scientific evidence?

Albert S. Osborn

Who is the world’s preeminent microscopist?

Walter C. McCroneho wrote the first treatiseW

Who wrote the first treatise describing applications of Scientific disciples?

Hans Grossho demonW

Who demostrated the principles of enunciated?

Edmund Locard