CRIMINALISTICS STUDY GUIDE

what is forensic science

the application of science to criminal and civil laws enforced by police agencies in a criminal justice system

what are the 4 major crime labs

fbi, dea, atf, us postal inspection

who developed anthropology

alphonse bertilion

what are the 3 avenues

confessions, eye witness accounts by victims or witnesses, physical evidence taken from the crime scene

locard exchange principle

every contact leaves a trace

odontology

study of teeth

what is toxicology responsible for

examines body fluids and organs to determine if there was/wasn’t drugs & poison

how many publics labs are there

400

the explanation of rapid growth of crime

increase in drug related arrests, advent of dna profiling, supreme court decision in the 1960s, increase in crime

csi unit

collects and preserves physical evidence

forensic units

psychiatry, odontology, engineers, digital analysis, meterology, zoology, botonical, latent fingerprint, polygraph, voiceprint, csi

forensic psychiatry

when children are involved

engineers

collapse of buildings (9/11)

digital analysis

computers and tech

meterology

weather

zoology

animal attacks

botanical

plants

latent fingerprint

fingerprints

polygraph

lie detector

voiceprint

sound patterns

mathieu orfila

father of toxicology

alphonse bertillon

made anthropometry for personal identification in 1879

francis galton

created methodology for classifying fingerprints

leone lattes

developed blood group/type analysis

calvin goddard

used microscopes for bullet analysis

albert osborn

made principles of document examination

edmond locard

made locard’s exchange principle

whats the oldest forensic lab in the US

made in 1923 by lapd

whats the 11 sections of professions

criminalistics, digital and multimedia services, engineering sciences, general, jurisprudence, odontology, pathology, physical anthropology, psychiatry anthropology, psychiatry services, question documents, toxicology

whats the largest crime lab

fbi

essential tool used by investigators

lie detector