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Forensic Science Exam ReviewQuestions and Answers Graded A+
Forensic Science - -The study and application of science to matters of law
-Criminalistics - -The scientific examination of physical evidence for legal
purposes
-Criminology - -includes the psychological angle, studying the crime scene
for motive, traits, and behavior that will help to interpret the evidence
-Basic Services offered in crime lab - -physical science unit, biology unit,
firearms unit, document examination unit, photography unit
-Optional Services in a crime lab - -Toxicology unit, latent fingerprint unit,
polygraph unit, evidence collection unit, voiceprint analysis unit
-Forensic Pathology - -Investigation of sudden, unexplained, or violent death
-Forensic Anthropology - -Specializes in human skeletal system
-Forensic Entomology - -The study of insects as related to the time of death
-Forensic Odontology - -examination of bite marks and dental idenitification
of corpses
-Who established the first crime lab? - -Edmund Locard
-Locard Exchange Principle - -Whenever two objects come into contact with
each other, traces of each are exchanged
-Ted Bundy - -1979- bite mark evidence was a key in convicting him
-Borkenstein - -invented the breathalyzer
-Marie Lafarge - -1840- convicted by the use of the Marsh test, of poisoning
her husband with arsenic
-Edward Henry - -1896- developed the first classification system for
fingerprint identification
-Leeuwenhoek - -Constructed the first high powered microscope in 1670
-Sam Sheppard - -his murder trial publicized blood spatter evidence
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