Forensic ScienceForensic Science
Exam Questions and Answers
Criminology - ANSWER-includes the physcological angle, studying the crime scene for
motive, traits, and behavior that will help to interpret the evidence
Divisions of Crime Lab - ANSWER-**Physical Science Unit
-chemistry
-physics
**Geology
**Biology Unit(DNA)
**Firearms Unit(tool mark)
**Document Examination Unit
**Photography Unit
Edmond Locard - ANSWER-**French professor
Forensic Science - ANSWER-the applications to matters of science to law
-As well as. . .
The business of providing timely, accurate, and thorough information to all levels of
decisions makers in our criminal justice system.
Criminalistics - ANSWER-the scientific examination of physical evidence for legal
purposes This term is synomous with forensic science
**Considered the father of: criminalistics( understood the importance of nature in crime
scenes and other cases.)
**Built the world's first forensic laboratory in France in 1910
Exchange Principle
Whenever two objects come into contact with each other, traces of each are
exchanged.
Alphonse Bertillon - ANSWER-Father of: criminal identification
, Francis Galton - ANSWER-First to develop a method of: first to develop a method using
fringerprints as a means of identification.4f
Dr. Karl Landsteiner - ANSWER-An Austrian physician that identified the A, B, AB, and
O blood groups in 1901.
Rudolf Virchow - ANSWER-A German pathologist who standardized a way to preform
autopsies one of two ways still used today.
** His cell theory, ("Omnis cellula e cellula") said that cells arise only from other cells.
scientific method - ANSWER-1. Observe a problem
2. Consider a hypothesis or possible solution.
3. Examine, test, and then analyze the evidence.
4. Determine the significance of the evidence.
5. Formulate a theory based on evaluation of the significance of the evidence
Recongnition - ANSWER-ability to distinguish important evidence from unrelated
material(which doesn't belong)
Preservation - ANSWER-collection of evidence(properly clothed for the contamtination
of other evidence)
Identification - ANSWER-use of scientific testing
Interpretation - ANSWER-gives meaning to all the information(meaning of the labs)(in
the court)
Reconstruction - ANSWER-the case events( can be able to put the evidence in
chronological order to present the evidence to a jury)(in the court)
direct evidence - ANSWER-eyewitness statements, confessions( not always the best
because of biased)
Circumstantial - ANSWER-requires a indriect judegment or inference about what
happened
***this type of evidence is not absolute proof, but does provide a general idea of what
happened. It may be more reliable than direct.
Testimonial - ANSWER-also known as direct evidence or Prima Facie evidence( a
statement made underoath that may be given)
Exam Questions and Answers
Criminology - ANSWER-includes the physcological angle, studying the crime scene for
motive, traits, and behavior that will help to interpret the evidence
Divisions of Crime Lab - ANSWER-**Physical Science Unit
-chemistry
-physics
**Geology
**Biology Unit(DNA)
**Firearms Unit(tool mark)
**Document Examination Unit
**Photography Unit
Edmond Locard - ANSWER-**French professor
Forensic Science - ANSWER-the applications to matters of science to law
-As well as. . .
The business of providing timely, accurate, and thorough information to all levels of
decisions makers in our criminal justice system.
Criminalistics - ANSWER-the scientific examination of physical evidence for legal
purposes This term is synomous with forensic science
**Considered the father of: criminalistics( understood the importance of nature in crime
scenes and other cases.)
**Built the world's first forensic laboratory in France in 1910
Exchange Principle
Whenever two objects come into contact with each other, traces of each are
exchanged.
Alphonse Bertillon - ANSWER-Father of: criminal identification
, Francis Galton - ANSWER-First to develop a method of: first to develop a method using
fringerprints as a means of identification.4f
Dr. Karl Landsteiner - ANSWER-An Austrian physician that identified the A, B, AB, and
O blood groups in 1901.
Rudolf Virchow - ANSWER-A German pathologist who standardized a way to preform
autopsies one of two ways still used today.
** His cell theory, ("Omnis cellula e cellula") said that cells arise only from other cells.
scientific method - ANSWER-1. Observe a problem
2. Consider a hypothesis or possible solution.
3. Examine, test, and then analyze the evidence.
4. Determine the significance of the evidence.
5. Formulate a theory based on evaluation of the significance of the evidence
Recongnition - ANSWER-ability to distinguish important evidence from unrelated
material(which doesn't belong)
Preservation - ANSWER-collection of evidence(properly clothed for the contamtination
of other evidence)
Identification - ANSWER-use of scientific testing
Interpretation - ANSWER-gives meaning to all the information(meaning of the labs)(in
the court)
Reconstruction - ANSWER-the case events( can be able to put the evidence in
chronological order to present the evidence to a jury)(in the court)
direct evidence - ANSWER-eyewitness statements, confessions( not always the best
because of biased)
Circumstantial - ANSWER-requires a indriect judegment or inference about what
happened
***this type of evidence is not absolute proof, but does provide a general idea of what
happened. It may be more reliable than direct.
Testimonial - ANSWER-also known as direct evidence or Prima Facie evidence( a
statement made underoath that may be given)
