An Introduction to Forensic Science

Match the following

• Father of "Fingerprints"

• Calvin Goddard

• Matched bullets fired to a specific gun

• Francis Galton

• Developed the Sherlock Holmes character

• Alphonse Bertillon

• Father of Criminal Detection

• Karl Landsteiner

• Father of Bloodtyping"

• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Match the following

• Father of Criminal Profiling

• Edmond Locard

• Exchange Principle-contact between 2 surfaces will result in transfer of materials

• Leone Lattes

• Established 1st FBI lab

• Albert Osborn

• Responsible for acceptance of documents as evidence in courts

• Hans Gross

• Created a procedure for determining blood type from dried blood

• J. Edgar Hoover

Match the following

• Father of DNA Fingerprinting

• Walter McCrone

• Father of Modern Microscopy

• Francis Galton

• Conducted 1st study of fingerprints and their classification

• Alec Jeffreys

One of the most important tools of the forensic investigator is the ability to

• observe

• interpret

• report

• all of these

Knowing which evidence is significant requires the __________ _________ the series of events preceding the crime.

True or False: An observation is what a person perceives using his or her five senses.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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Observations can be affected by

• emotions

• what is going on around us

• being in a group

• being overstimulated

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Eyewitness statements can vary based on ​ ​ ​ ​ (a)  

• stress
• concentration
• beliefs
• motives
• distractions

Interpretation based on prior knowledge is known as an

• observation

• inference

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Reorder the following

After the witness examination, the examiner must do the following:

• arrange evidence in a logical pattern

• collect evidence

• determine if the pattern is verified by the evidence