Law/Ethics in Forensics

Which guideline matches Codes of Ethics for interpreting physical evidence?

• No excessive testing

• Appropriately define your area of expertise

• Don't state conclusions beyond your area of expertise

• Inform colleagues about new methodologies

When a forensic scientist provides information in a criminal trial, the facts he or she presents are based on:

• Eyewitness accounts.
• Educated guesses.
• Circumstantial evidence.
• Scientific investigation.

What is the CSI Effect?

• Playing a part on the show CSI

• Being a fan of the show CSI and getting your friends to watch it too

• The belief that actual forensic cases are solved quickly making jurors reluctant to vote to convict, forensic evidence is neither necessary nor available.

• Solving a case and feeling like you're on the show CSI

Which of the following is NOT a major job of a forensic scientist?

• Analyze physical evidence
• Provide expert testimony
• Determine which evidence is admissible in court
• Train others in proper recognition, collection and preservation of physical evidence. 

Chronological documentation or paper trail, showing the seizure, custody, control, transfer, analysis, and disposition of evidence, physical or electronic

• Physical Evidence

• Rules of Evidence

• Chain of Custody

• Ethical Standards

The study of crime from a social perspective, including examining who commits crimes, why they commit them, their impact, and how to prevent them.

• Criminology

• Criminalistics

• Forensics

Admissions, confessions, and statements are considered

• physical evidence
• inadmissable evidence
• testimonial evidence

The ability to establish the exact whereabouts of an item of evidence and under whose control it was from its collection at the crime scene to its presentation in the courtroom and everywhere in between is called

• chain of command

• record of evidence

• chain of custody

• responsibility link

The National Code of Professional Responsibility for Forensic Science and Forensic Medicine Service Providers has how many statements that forensic scientists should abide by?

• 14

• 16

• 18

• 20

Which of the following changes dependent on who you are talking to?

• What is moral

• What is ethical

• What is legal

• What is professional