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Fsc100 Midterm Review Questions With Solutions 100% Complete Alexandre Lacassagne -() 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 -the French R...

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Alexandre Lacassagne -(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 -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 -(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

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-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 -(1877-1966)


-criminalistics: the science of solving crime, was considered forensic science by the 1970's




Hans Gross -(1847-1915)


-Austrian professor of criminal law

-coined the term "criminalistics"




Locard's Exchange Principle -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 anything that can give or substantiate information in a legal investigation

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