History Flashcards
Mathieu Orfila
1814 detection of poisons effects on animals
Alphonse Bertillion
1879: first system of personal identification called anthropometry
Francis Galton
1879: first study of fingerprints and classification
Leone Lattes
1915: determined blood type from dried blood strains
Calvin Goddard
Comparison microscope to determine if a gun fired a bullet
Albert Osborn
Developed fundamental principles of document examination
Walter McCrone
Microscopy and other analytical methodologies to examine evidence
Criminal and Civil cases
Hans Gross
1893: application of scientific principles to criminal investigation
Edmond locard
1910: incorporated gross principles within a workable crime laboratory
Paul Leland Kirk
Father of criminology and criminalistics
Established first crime major at UC Berkeley
J Edgar hoover
Established first fbi lab at Washington DC in 1932
Criminal law
Offenses against the state and prosecution of a person accused of breaking a law by the state or federal government
Civil law
Covers violations of contracts and lawsuits between 2 or more parties