Forensic Science

Question 1

10 Areas of Forensic Science

Answer 1

Toxicology
Criminalistics
Behavioural Sciences
Forensic Engineering
Forensic Pathology
Forensic Odontology
Questioned Documents
Digital Inspection

Question 2

5 Branches of Forensics

Answer 2

Analytical Sciences
Chemical Sciences
Biological Sciences
Physical Sciences
Law & Forensic Sciences

Question 3

History of Forensic Science

Answer 3

Established int the 5th Century
Mr. Lafarge’s mysterious case
Alphonse Bartillon - Anthropometry or Bartillonage
Karl Landsteiner
Watson & Crick
Goddard
Advanced technologies

Question 4

History of Forensic Science

Answer 4

5th Century Germanic and Slavic societies were believed to be the first to put down in statute that medical experts should be employed to determine cause of death.

In 1247 the first textbook was published in China which among other things documented the procedures to be followed when investigating a suspicious death.

In medieval England pressure from the church halted the practice of hanging women thought to be pregnant. A convicted woman could escape the death penalty if she ‘pleaded her belly’ providing a physician could prove that she was pregnant.

Question 5

Marie-Forunee Lafarge

Answer 5

Convicted of murdering her husband by arsenic poisoning in 1840, convicted on direct forensic toxicological evidence. The Marsh test was used to establish if Arsenic had been used to poison her husband. The test was invented in 1936 by the Scottish Chemist James Marsh. Arsenic was found in his stomach, and further analysis of of the rat poison that Marie had given to the garden was shown to a be a mixture of flour, water and soda, arsenic was found in the malachite box belonging to Marie.

Question 6

Alphonse Bertillon

Answer 6

Was a French criminologist and anthropologist and created the first system of measurements, photography and record-keeping that police could use to identify recidivist criminals

Question 7

Watson and Crick

Answer 7

Discover the structure of DNA 1953, later used in Forensic science. Collection of DNA from crimes scenes used in the identification of suspects. DNA obtained from blood, semen etc.

Question 8

Karl Landsteiner

Answer 8

1902 Blood evidence from a crime scenes could be used to confirm a suspect or rule them out based on the Landsteiner blood typing system ( A, B, AB, O)

Question 9

Goddard

Answer 9

Ballistics testing using comparison microscope to compare bullets and casings found at crimes scenes. Instrumental in establishing forensic laboratories. 1923 founded the Bureau of Forensic Ballistics, first forensics laboratory in the USA. Stro9ng advocate for fingerprints and photographing crime scenes as well as the importance of documenting and preserving evidence from a crime scene.

Question 10

Analytical, Chemical and Biological Sciences

Answer 10

Forensic Chemistry, Toxicology, Criminalistics and Forensic Pathology

Question 11

Evidence