Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Intro Material
Forensics
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| What is Forensic Science? | application of of science to civil and criminal law in order to prove question at hand |
| What is Criminal Law? | jail, death penalty, house arrest, community hours, prole, mental illness places |
| What is Civil Law? | ownership of property, financial compensations, fines |
| Criminology | includes psychological angle, studying the crime scene for motive, traits, behavior that helps understand the evidence |
| Criminalistics | go out with officers on the scene, recognition, collection, ID reconstruction of events based on analysis , interpret patterns, collect all evidence (fingerprints, firearms, documents, tool marks, etc) |
| Pathology | medical doctor specializing in determining causes/manners of death generally when the person dies suspiciously |
| Causes of Death | event that directly caused death: heart attack, etc |
| Manners of Death | type of death: homicide, natural, accidental, suicidal, undetermined |
| Anthropology | use skeletal remains to ID bones as humans or animals, in humans body part, gender, age, race, attempt to determine injury/cause of death if damaged bone is present |
| Odontology | examines teeth, could be a normal dentist before |
| Engineer | examines structural collapsing |
| Entomology | insects on corpses, may also determine through toxicology analysis of insects whether poison/drugs were involved, blow flies show up first |
| 2 main things about Crime Labs | 1. analyze evidence / 2. testify in court as expert witness to judges, because of education/experience they can evaluate facts and reach conclusions that judges/juries cannot, don't need PhD, certified by the court to participate |
| US Forensics Science System | 400 publicly funded labs and 60+ federal and state laves that solely analyze digital evidence |
| Federal Labs | justice department, DEA, FBI labs is the largest and has 1 mil+ exams a year, treasury dept = AFT, IRS, secret service, dept of the interior = fish and wildlife, US postal = crimes by mail |
| State/Local Labs | CA has 33 public labs (LAPD = oldest one in US) Montana has 1 lab |
| Private Labs | frequently used by deference attorneys for criminal defendants |
| Why so many labs? | DNA profiling, major increase in crimes, increase in drug related arrests, supreme court decisions in 60's ind. state rights |
| Blood can still be traced after how many times of scrubbing it? | up to 300,000 times |
| Basic Crime Lab Units | physical science, biology, firearms, document examination, photography |
| Optional Crime Lab Units | toxicology, latent fingerprint, polygraph, voice print analysis, crime scene investigation |
Created by:
samfalcone
Popular Criminal Justice sets