Introduction

Question 1

The Role

Answer 1

Examine any material submitted from a crime scene in a transparent way

Question 2

Lab work

Answer 2

analyse scientific evidence

Question 3

Expert witness in court

Answer 3

attend crime scenes as specialists in difficult high-profile cases

Question 4

Investigative process

Answer 4

crime scene examiners, fingerprint officers, forensic scientist

Question 5

Alphonse Bertillon

Answer 5

French criminologist: method of recording physical features and using a record to find similarities in Europe and America.
Limitations: reproducibility, discredited in US penitentiary.

Question 6

Sir Edward Henry

Answer 6

best recognised for developing fingerprint classification system in 1901
used to categorise sets of fingerprints and store them for retrieval (England and Wales)

Question 7

Edmon Locard

Answer 7

‘every contract leaves a trace’ 1910, created first forensic lab

Question 8

Karl Landsteiner

Answer 8

His work led to ABO blood type system