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FSC100 Midterm Review: Questions/Solutions (100%)Atavists Right Ans - insisted that criminals were born to commit crimes
due to biological deviance
Positivists Right Ans - claimed that. crime is the product of social causes
Recidivism Right Ans - the act of repeating an offence
Cesare Lombroso Right Ans - -(1835-1909)
-atavist and practicing psychiatrist
-father of modern criminology
-argued that criminals were born deviant based on the size and shape of their
bodies
-visited hospitals, asylums, prisons, took measurements, collected writings
and drawings, took photographs, etc.
Alexandre Lacassagne Right Ans - -(1843-1924) was a positivist
-father of forensic medicine
-pointed to charts and maps and linked crime rates with geography, the
behaviour of criminals depended on their social environment
Joseph Vacher Right Ans - -the French Ripper
-executed in 1898 for the murders of more than 23 people
taken into custody of a failed abduction. When incarcerated, confessed to
several murders
-Lacassagne attended the trial, researched Vacher's life, interviewed him,
wrote extensively on details of the case, and provided testimony
Alphonse Bertillon Right Ans - -(1853-1914)
-created the first system of physical measurements combined with
photography and record keeping that police could use to define recidivist
criminals
-concept of mugshots
-emphasized on creating an immediate identification system rather than
understanding the inherent morphology of criminals
-this system is referred to as signaletics (or the Bertillonage method)
-changes in measurements created issues with identifying criminals correctly
, -the Bertillon system was used for over 30 Years, fingerprinting replaced this
system
Edmond Locard Right Ans - -(1877-1966)
-criminalistics: the science of solving crime, was considered forensic science
by the 1970's
Hans Gross Right Ans - -(1847-1915)
-Austrian professor of criminal law
-coined the term "criminalistics"
Locard's Exchange Principle Right Ans - -microscopic traces are the silent
witnesses in crime
-when any two objects come into contact there is always a transference of
material from each object onto another
Evidence Right Ans - anything that can give or substantiate information in
a legal investigation
Indirect Witness Right Ans - -did not witness the crime
-may not be aware that a crime occurred
eg. a neighbour that heard a loud crash
Direct Witness Right Ans - -witnessed the crime or are a victim of the crime
Associative Evidence Right Ans - any evidence that places an individual at a
scene and/or with a victim
Class Evidence Right Ans - evidence that requires classification into a more
narrow range
Electronic Evidence Right Ans - information and data transmitted and/or
stored in any electronic device
Latent Evidence Right Ans - any evidence that is not visible without the use
of chemical, photographic, or electronic development / enhancement
Trace Evidence Right Ans - evidence that has to be extracted from another
substance and is in very small amounts, often invisible to the naked eye
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