Coverage Flashcards
The doubter, The Patron Saint of Forensic Science.
St. Thomas
Sci-fi author in late 1800s and has popularized scientific crime detection methods through his fictional character “Sherlock Holmes”
Sir Conan Doyle
The Father of Toxicology and wrote about the detection of poisons and their effects on animals.
Mathieu Orfila (1787-1853)
The Father of Anthropometry and developed the system to distinguish one individual person from another based on certain body measurements.
Alphonse Bertillon (1853-1914)
The Father of Fingerprinting and has developed fingerprinting as a way to uniquely identify individuals.
Francis Galton (1882-1911)
The Father of Bloodstain identification and developed a procedure for determining the blood type (A, B, AB, or O) of a dried blood stain.
Leone Lattes(1857-1954)
The Father of Document Examination where his work led to the acceptance of documents as scientific evidence by the courts.
Albert S. Osborne (1858-1946)
The Father of FBI during 1930s where he organized a national laboratory to offer forensic services to all law enforcement agencies in the US
J. Edgar Hoover
-It is the application of a broad spectrum of sciences to answer questions of interest to a legal system.
Forensic Science
It means “of or before the forum”
Forensis
The Father of Crime Lab where he started the 1st crime lab in an attic of Police station.
Edmond Locard (1877-1966)
Father of Ballistics
Calvin Goddard
It is the ability to think clearly when faced with the daunting confusion of the average crime scene.
Key to Criminalistics
One of the most popular case in the field of Forensic “ CASE OF CENTURY”
The Family of the Romanovs
It deals with the technique and procedures used for approaching and protecting the crime scene.
Crime Scene Investigation
It deals with the specific detection of deception in relation to criminal investigations.
Polygraphy
Is the study of the effect of drugs and poisons on/in the human body.
Forensic Toxicology
It is a field in which principles of medicine are applied to determine a cause of death or injury.
Forensic Pathology
It deals with the study of fingerprint principles in criminal investigations.
Forensic Dactyloscopy
The application of various sciences to answer questions relating to examination and comparison of biological evidence, trace evidence and track evid.
Criminalistics