RISE OF FORENSIC SCIENCE

Question 1

What were the specialisations under forensic medicine in 1950?

Answer 1

forensic pathologists, psychiatrists, toxicology and serology

Question 2

what did forensic science expand to include?

Answer 2

forensic chemistry, biology , etimology, physics, anthropology, geanology, botany, genetics, zoology

Question 3

what was lacassange interested in, as he had his own school at lyon?

Answer 3

interested in criminal psychology, pathology, biological changes after death

Question 4

who was the first forensic expert to study ballistics and blood patterns?

Answer 4

Lacassange

Question 5

what is exchange principle?

Answer 5

Locard’s principle: any action of an indvidual, and obviously the violent action constituting a crime cannot occur without leaving a trace.

Question 6

when and who discovered means of determining whether blood was animal or human?

Answer 6

Rodolf, 1817

Question 7

why was there the change from lone expert to use of a team?

Answer 7

late 19th century early 20th, image of forensic scientist was very much a lone wolf, most forensic scientists then worked with team of students and assistants to prove legitimacy