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Criminalistics Midterm 1

Forensic science - ANSThe application of science to the criminal and civil laws that are enforced
by police agencies in a criminal justice system

CSI effect - ANSLed the public to believe that every crime scene will yield forensic evidence,
and it produces unrealistic expectations that a prosecutor's case should always be bolstered
and supported by forensic evidence.

Mathieu Orfila - ANSFather of toxicology; Published first scientific treatise on the detection of
poisons and their effects on animals--made forensic toxicology a legitimate scientific endeavor

Alphonse Bertillon - ANSDevised the first scientific system of personal identification through
body measurements

Francis Galton - ANSConducted the first definitive study of fingerprints and their classification

Leone Lattes - ANSDeveloped a procedure to determine blood type from dried bloodstains

Calvin Goddard - ANSUsed a comparison microscope to determine if a particular gun fired a
bullet

Albert Osborn - ANSDeveloped the fundamental principles of document examination

Walter McCrone - ANSUtilized microscopy and other analytical methodologies to examine
evidence

Hans Gross - ANSWrote the first treatise describing the application of scientific principles to the
field of criminal investigation.

Edmond Locard - ANS-Incorporated Gross' principles within a workable crime laboratory
-developed first crime lab

Locard's Exchange Principle - ANSStates that when a criminal comes in contact with an object
or person, a cross-transfer of evidence occurs.

Why crime lab increase? - ANS1) they were inundated with drug specimens due to accelerated
drug abuse
2) the advent of DNA profiling

Future challenges of crime labs? - ANSbacklog of unanalyzed DNA

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