Intro and History of Forensics

What is the Definition of the term Forensics?

• Science of Chemistry and Physics

• relating to the use of scientific knowledge or methods in solving crimes to a court of law.

• the use of Science to determine someone innocence or guilt

• Science of Biology and Chemistry

the action or process of classifying something according to shared qualities or characteristics.

• Classification

• Evidence

• Scientific Method 

• Forensics

a procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses

• Forensics

• Classification

• Scientific Method 

• Evidence

The available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.

• Classification

• Evidence

• Forensic

• Scientific Method 

How many fields/ areas of Forensics are there?

• 6

• 8

• 4

• 3

Name 3 field of in Forensics.

The three working groups for Forensics

• Field

  Medical

  Laboratory

• Cop

  Scientists

  Suspect

• Law

  Order

  Forensics

• Crime Scene

  Forensics Lab

  Court Room

What was the first type of Forensic evidence in 250BC

• Lie detection

• Fingerprints

• Detection of arsenic

• anthropology

What can Medical Examiners /M.E. do for the first time in the 19th century

• Look at DNA

• Determine cause of death

• Identify using microscopes

• Fingerprint analysis

Polarizing microscope invented

• 1829

• 1839

• 1983

• 1900