Forensics Final
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- Alphonse Bertillon (1879)
- developed anthropometry.
- Corpus Delicti
- The body of the offense. Must be proven a crime has been committed.
- Leone Lattes (1915)
- devised blood grouping for stains
- Laws that govern forensic science
- the criminalist has NO function w/o the judicial system.
- Branches of forensic science
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- Sector Search
- divide a large area into zones, then apply one of the 4 search patterns to the zone.
- Nicotine Withdrawal Syndrom
- Cravings, irritability, frustration, anger
- Locard's Exchange Principle
- When an individual contacts an object or person, transfer of evidence occurs.
- Forensic
- Pertaining to connected with or used to count of law or public discussion and debate
- Computer Addiction
- Point + shoot comp. games cause violence
- Cavin Goddard (1930)
- refined comparative ballistics
- Concentric Search
- Circular from the outside in or outside out
- Mathieu Orfila (1814)
- established forensic toxicology (drugs, poisens, alcoholic consumption)
- Arbitrary Abuse of Power Syndrome
- Due to dealing w/ bureaucrats all day
- Hans Gross (1893)
- described application of science to criminal investigation
- Circumstantial Evidence
- All physical evidence. involvement has not been substantialted by an eyewitness.
- Francis Galton (1892)
- Developed fingerprinting
- Edmond Locard (1910)
- Incorporated scientific principles within a crime laboratory
- Genetics defense
- Cytogenetic evidence (XXY)
- Brain...(neurotransmitters)
- 80% of violent crimes had a greater than avg. birth complication. -prisoners report: head injury w/ a loss of consciousness
- What makes up a fingerprint?
- 98.5% water, 1.5% solid. 1% organic materials
- Grid Search
- Area is divided into N-S + E-W. strips this allows a secondary search of each diff. direction
- Individual Characteristics
- Features that distinguish one item from another of the same type
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1887)
- popularized scientific detection methods
- America Dream Syndrome
- Cultural influence of wanting to get ahead
- How to define a crime scene..
- Location of criminal activity. Primary- Where the original crime occurred. Secondary- Subsequent crime scenes
- Modus Operandi
- A certain criminals repeated behavior
- Albert Osborn (1910)
- authored reference for document examination
- Premenstrual Stress Syndrome
- Hormonal changes so severe that cause the unthinkable
- Forensic Science
- The scientific analysis and interpretation of physical evidence for use in a court of law
- Petide (hormones)
- act on cell membranes (fast)
- Thyroid (thryroxine, calcitorin) hormones
- nervousness, hyperthyrodism, causes personality change
- Psychobiological
- Bio behind your brain.
- Multiple Personality Disorder
- usually seen as result of child abuse
- Analysts's job
- Provide scientific info to the legal community and translate the stroy the evidence has to tell.
- AFIS
- Automated Fingerprint Identification System
- Rock + Roll Defense
- subliminal messages in music were the cause of the conduct
- FBI (1932)
- Organized a national crime laboratory
- Steroid (hormones)
- act on cell nuclei (slow)
- Cultural Norms Defense
- Behavior in one's homeland are illegal here
- Twinkie Syndrome
- Consumption of junk food lead to crime
- NIMBY
- homeowners protecting their own property
- Everybody does it syndrome
- public funds being used by officials
- Roid Rage
- violence caused by steroids
- Class Characteristics
- Features that place the item into a specific category
- PMS (hormones)
- 70% of women in prison committed crimes during it
- Criminalisitics
- The science dealing with the detection of crime and apprehension of criminals. German: Kriminalistio
- Gonads (Testosterone) hormones
- male sex drive, pain, high levels reduce social integrations, highest in the morning, highest in the month of nov/dec.
- Strip Search
- area is divided into N-S and W-E. each area completely searched before moving to the next area
- Neurtransmitters
- *Chemicals in the brain. -transmission of electrical impulses -central nervous system(brain/spinal)
- Criminology
- Study of crime as a social phenomenon, of criminals and of penal treatment
- Zone search
- divides the area usually a room into equal size zones. each zone has a searcher
- Superbowl Sunday Syndrome
- Superjock Defense, television defense, violence on tv leads to violence action
- Hormones
- Chemical messengers. Ex: Endocrine glands, brain, gastrointestinal organs, sex organs, kidney, skin/hair
- Serotonin(neurotransmitters)
- -pain reduction, aggression -antisocial people have lower levels -Genetic or environmental -Memory change neural pathway, can therefore effect level
- Eyewitness
- Evidence tends to be considered conclusive.
- Phyiognomy
- old school criminology. Cesare Lombroso. Natural born criminal. based on physical appearance of their face