Unit 1: Intro of Forensics

Who was the first to identify the 9 fingerprint patterns still taught today?

• John Evangelist Purkinje

• Joseph Bell

• Alphonse Bertillon

• Calvin Goddard

Who was the first to introduce firearms examinations?

• John Evangelist Purkinje

• Joseph Bell

• Alphonse Bertillon

• Calvin Goddard

Who was the first to apply anthropometry (body measurements) to forensic science?

• John Evangelist Purkinje

• Joseph Bell

• Alphonse Bertillon

• Calvin Goddard

Who was the first to use careful and close observation to diagnose patience and deduce clues?

• John Evangelist Purkinje

• Joseph Bell

• Alphonse Bertillon

• Calvin Goddard

Who was the first to establish a body farm to study decomposition?

• Francis Galton

• Bill Bass

• J. Edgar Hoover

• Alec Jeffreys

Who was the first to realize that DNA was individual to each person, not just families?

• Francis Galton

• Bill Bass

• J. Edgar Hoover

• Alec Jeffreys

Who was the first to develop a fingerprint identification system?

• Francis Galton

• Bill Bass

• J. Edgar Hoover

• Alec Jeffreys

Who was the first to organize a FBI crime lab?

• Francis Galton

• Bill Bass

• J. Edgar Hoover

• Alec Jeffreys

Who was the first person to establish a police laboratory and known as the father of criminalistics?

• Edmund Locard

• Bernard Spilsbury

• Mathieu Orfila

• Roman Quintilian

Which is the most accurate statement about the Locard Exchange Principle?

• It states that violent crimes always produce trace evidence.

• It states that trace evidence is created in all crimes.

• It states that perpetrators of violent crimes will always bring trace into a crime scene and take trace away from the crime scene.

• It states that there is no perfect crime.