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Forensic - ANS Forum: place of debate
Court of law
Science - ANS Method of study used to empirically understand and describe the physical
universe
Fallibilism - ANS Awareness that there could be alternative explanations
17th & 18th Century - ANS Medicine
19th Century - ANS Medicine, chemistry, law, photography
20th Century - ANS Microscopy, fingerprints, pathology, chemistry, etc...
Alexander Lacassagne - ANS - professor of forensic medicine @ Lyon university
- wide ranging interests: decomposition, ballistics, bloodstains
- advocated that society, not heredity, was responsible for crime
Dr. Joseph Bell - ANS - medical lecturer
- "observe carefully, deduce shrewdly, and confirm with evidence
- Inspo. for Sherlock Holmes
Hans Gross - ANS - introduced the word and concept of Kriminalistik
- how can science help investigators?
- 1912: founded institute of criminalistics
Pathology (death investigation) - ANS the body and damage to it
Anthropology - ANS Skeletal Identification
Odontology - ANS definition and bite marks
Entomology - ANS insects on body
Pathology ( biological science) - ANS trauma to the body
serology - ANS body fluid identification
,DNA analysis - ANS identification based on genetics
Criminalistics - ANS shoe prints, fingerprints, blood spatter, firearms, hairs, fibers, paint,
glass, soil, questioned documents: handwriting
Forensic chemistry - ANS Drug identification, toxicology, arson and explosives, questioned
documents: ink/paper, trace evidence: paint/glass/hairs/fibers
Digital forensics - ANS recovery, video imaging enhancing, speaker identification, biometrics
Crimonology - ANS - application of psychology and sociology
- tries to explain the causes of crime
- studies optimum policing and common its response to crime
The crime lab - ANS - scientific lab where crime scene evidence is analyzed prior to any
court room
- federal, state, county, municipal
WV state police forensic lab - ANS drug identification, toxicology, trace evidence,
biochemistry, latent prints, firearm/tool mark, questioned documents
Criminal Trials - ANS the location where the crime occurred is the jurisdiction, which has a
set of laws
Civil trials - ANS - citizen vs citizen
- plantiff vs respondent
- offense is a "tort"
- balance of evidence
Criminal trials - ANS - government vs citizen
- prosecutor and defendant
- offense is a "felony" or "misdemeanor"
- beyond a reasonable doubt
Pathologist - ANS - determine cause of disease or trauma based on appearance and
chemistry of bodies or tissues
Medical Examiner - ANS - appointed by jurisdiction
- must be MD
Coroner - ANS - elected by jurisdiction
Death investigator - ANS - investigate deaths under the jurisdiction of the coroner/ medical
examiner
, - collect scene context needed to determine cause of death
Pathologist assistant - ANS - does everything a pathologists does EXCEPT sign the death
certificate
Manner of death - ANS HOW the person died
- natural
- accidental
- homicidal
- suicidal
- undetermined
Cause of death - ANS WHY the person died
Accidental death - ANS - poisoning
- motor vehicle accident
- falls
- suffocation
- burns and fires
- drowning
- firearms mishap
- natural phenomena
- electrocution and explosions
- struck by another person
Homicide - ANS intentional killing by another
Suicide - ANS Intentional self-harm leading to death
Undetermined - ANS insufficient or conflicting data
The autoposy - ANS determination of manner and cause of death
WV medical examiner - ANS - violence
- suicide
- unattended by physician
- inmate
- suspicious, unusual, unatural
External examination - ANS physical features: sex ethnicity, hair/eye color, scars, tattoos,
wounds
Internal examination - ANS open body, remove organs, visually inspect, weigh, section
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