Introduction to forensics

Which one best describes forensics?

• Application of science to criminal and civil law that are used by police agency to identify and compare physical evidence.

• Application of software to criminal and civil law.

• Application of science used by police agency to get physical evidence.

What do Matthew Orfilla and Alphonse Bertillion founded?

• Matthew-father of pharmacology

  Alphonse-personal identification

• Matthew-fingerprints

  Alphonse-Uses gross principle

• Matthew-father of toxicology

  Alphonse-personal identification

• Matthew-identify blood from blood stain

  Alphonse-When there's contact there's trace

Who conducted first definitive study of fingerprints ?

• Francis Galton

• Matthieu Orfilla

• Leone Lattes

• Hans Gross

Who developed the procedure to determine blood type from dried blood stains?

• Matthieu Orfilla

• Leone Lattes

• Walter McCrone

• Edmond Locard

Walter McCrone developed

• if there's contact there's traces

• identify blood from dried blood stain

• Microscopy and other methodologies to examine

• incorporated Gross Principles

Who incorporated Gross Principle

• Matthieu Orfilla

• Hans Gross

• Edmond Loccard

If there's contact, there'll be traces

• Loccard's Exchange Principles

• Hans Gross

• Edmond Loccard

Basic Services of forensics are science unit, biology unit, firearm unit,

• document unit

• Photography unit

• laboratory unit

• pathology unit

Special forensics includes engineer forensics, odontology forensics, psychiatry forensics,

• entomology forensics

• firearm forensics

• computer science forensics

• document forensics