Forensic Science
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- Edmond Locard
- Locard's Exchange Principle
- Forensic Science
- the application of science to criminal or civil law
- Expert Testimony
- A witness who through education has knowledge on a subject that aids in the incrimination of a suspect
- Toxicology Unit
- the findings of drugs and other posions
- Evidence-Collection Unit
- Preservation of physical evidence
- Leone Lattes
- Developed the method for blood typing
- Physical Science Lab
- uses principles of chemistry, physics, geology to identifya dn compare evidence
- FBI
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Odontology
- used teeth to identify; victims when body is unrecognizable
- DEA
- Drug Enforcement Administration
- Evidence Technicans
- A person assigned of a suspect collecting and storing evidence
- U.S. Postal Service
- criminal investigations related to the postal service
- ATF
- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firears, Explosives
- Albert S. Osborn
- Developed the principles of document examination
- Areas of Science
- Chemisry, physics, geology, biology
- Locard's Exchange Principle
- Trace evidence is transferred when people come in contact
- LAPD
- Los Angeles Police Department
- Psychology
- examines relationships between human behavior and legal proceedings
- Entomology
- study of insects in relation to a criminal investigation
- Anthropology
- identification and examination of human skeletal remains
- Calvin Goddard
- Developed the method for microscope in the usage of the comparsion of firearms
- Latent Fingerprint Unit
- Examines the evidence for fingerprints
- Biology Unit
- Find DNA matches to blood stains, body fluids, hairs, and fibers
- Francis Galton
- Developed the method of classifying fingerprints
- Number of Crime Labs
- Over 300 labs
- Functions of a Forensic Scientist
- Analysis of physical, Provide expert witness testimony, provide training in recognition collection, preservation of evidence
- Alphonse Bertillon
- Father of criminal identification
- Hans Gross
- Application of science to crimes
- Pathology
- investigation of sudden, unnatural, unexpalined or violent death
- Matheiu Orfila
- Father of toxicology
- Increase in Crime Labs
- Increase crime rate, increase use of DNA evidence, required specialized training and equipment
- Firearms Unit
- Examines firearms, bullets, cartridges, shotguns shells, and ammunition
- Forensic Engineering
- concerned with failure analysis accident reconstruction