The Forensic Sciences Flashcards
Define: forensic
-anything pertaining to (or potentially) law, both civil and criminal
Examples: forensic professions
- engineering
- linguistics
- medicine
- computer investigation
- pathology
- anthropology
- archaeology
- psychiatry
- social work
- accounting
____ and ____ work together to identify skeletal remains, and means of death.
- forensic anthropology
- forensic pathology
Forensic labs prepare ____ and ____ on ____ evidence.
- reports
- courtroom testimony
- physical
Define: forensic entomology
-study of insects (anthropods) as it relates to legal issues
Forensic entomology is useful in investigating…
- landlord-tenant disputes
- pest control
- real estate
- food contamination
In criminal investigations, forensic entomology is used to identify…
- time since death
- location of death
- position of death
In drug trafficking, forensic entomology can be used to identify…
-location of manufacture or packaging of drugs by identifying insects found in drugs
Forensic document examination analyzes…
This process is called…
- elements to establish document authorship and authenticity
- questioned document examination or analysis
Computer evidence recovery (forensic data recovery) involves…
- email and internet analysis
- data recovery techniques
The goal of the Computer Evidence Recovery specialist is to…
-recover data without altering original media or image of media
