FINAL EXAM Flashcards
deals with the study of major crimes based on the application of special investigative technique.
Special crime investigation
It is a branch of medicine which deals with the application of medical knowledge to the purposes of law and in the administration of justice.
Legal Medicine
is one you decide is the answer of the case and which you then attempt to prove with collection of facts.
Deductive reasoning
collects all the facts available first and allows them to determine the judgement.
inductive reasoning
The place where the essential ingredients of the criminal act took place. It includes the setting of the crime and also the adjoining places of entry and exit both offender and victim.
Crime Scene
is the most vulnerable to loss, contamination and damaging effects on biological evidence in a short period of time.
Outdoor crime scene
is generally less susceptible to environmental loss and deleterious change.
Indoor Crime scene
conveyance means of transportation.
Conveyance crime scene
is a type of crime scene where a crime actually occurred.
primary crime scene
is in some way related to the crime but is not where the actual crime took place.
secondary crime scene
Articles and materials which are found in connection with an investigation and which aid in establishing the identity of the perpetrator or the circumstances under which the crime was committed or which in general, assists in the prosecution of the criminal.
Physical evidence
objects or substances which are an essential part of the body of the crime.
Corpus delicti
evidence which links the suspects to the crime scene or offense. Fingerprints or shoe impressions are good examples.
associative evidence
articles which assists the investigator in locating the suspect.
Tracing Evidence
It is a Latin term for mode, a method of operations in police work.
Modus Operandi
It involves the basic crime scene protocol which includes interview of complainant and witnesses and photographing the crime scene, making a sketch, collection of evidences for laboratory examination and analysis.
Crime scene processing
What are the two kinds of sketch?
rough and finished sketch
is generally limited to things that are biological in nature.
DNA analysis
the earliest recorded medico legal expert. He made the first recorded report of a murder trial written in a clay tablet.
IMHOTEP
He discussed the lethality of wounds in Greece.
Hippocrates
fixed animation of fetus at the 4oth day after conception.
Aristotle
the first police surgeon or forensic pathologist who performed the autopsy of Julius Caesar body.
Antistius
made mention that a physician is not an ordinary witness and that a physician gives judgment rather than testimony.
Justinian
a papal physician, is regarded as the father of forensic medicine. He published Questiones Medico- legales which dealt with the legal aspects of wounds and the first two chapter dealt with the detection of secret homicide.
Paulus Zacchias
the founder of modern toxicology. Introduced a chemical methods in toxicology.
Orfila
It denotes anything belonging to court of legal proceedings or something fitted for legal or public argumentation.
Forensic
a science and art dealing with prevention, cure and alleviation of disease. It is that part of science and art of restoring and preserving health.
Medicine
Application of medical science to elucidate legal problems.
Forensic Medicine
A practical science which investigated the nature, origin, development and functions of law.
Jurisprudence
Knowledge of law in relation to the practice of medicine.
Medical Jurisprudence
Is a rule of conduct, just, obligatory, laid by legitimate power for common observance and benefit.
LAW
laws which are produced by the country’s legislations.
Staturoy law