FIS 201 – Exam 1 Study Guide and Practice Questions
What are the forensic specialties? - ANS✔✔ Criminology
Criminalistics
Crime Scene Investigation
Pathology
Odontology
Anthropology
Entomology
Behavioral Sciences
Engineering
Toxicology
Criminology - ANS✔✔ study of criminal behavior (psychology + sociology), helps with policy
Criminalistics - ANS✔✔ deals with physical and trace evidence, this includes:
firearms
hairs & fibers
paint & glass chips
fingerprints
blood splatter
shoe prints
Pathology - ANS✔✔ "forensic medicine"
done by medical doctors, coroners, and medical examiners
,Determines damage to the body, time of death, cause and manner of death, and malpractice
Crime Scene Inverstigation (CSI) - ANS✔✔ deals with identification, preservation, and collection
of evidence (actually processes crime scene)
Odontology - ANS✔✔ identifies human remains through teeth
Since teeth are harder than bone and have unique patterns, x-rays for comparison and bite
mark identification are possible
Anthropology - ANS✔✔ examination of human skeletal remains
Used to sort through mass casualties, identifying individuals, and determining age, sex,
ethnicity, and cause of death
Entomology - ANS✔✔ examination of human skeletal remains
Used to sort through mass casualties, identifying individuals, and determining age, sex,
ethnicity, and cause of death
Behavioral Sciences - ANS✔✔ psychology (study of human behavior) and psychiatry (medical
branch of the study of diseases of the mind)
could be involved with insanity, competency to withstand trial
Engineering - ANS✔✔ examine structures, materials or processes that fail,
common with civil suits
, Toxicology - ANS✔✔ identification of poisons in the body (includes illegal drugs, venom, and
medications) this also includes understanding effects and metabolism of substances
forensic science - ANS✔✔ the application of science to the criminal and civil laws that are
enforced by police agencies in a criminal justice system
What is the CSI Effect? - ANS✔✔ The dramatization of forensic science on television has led the
public to believe that every crime scene will yield forensic evidence and at an unrealistic pace.
This also affects the courtroom where it is believed forensice evidence is necessary
Alphonse Bertillon - ANS✔✔ French scientists who developed anthropometry, which is a series
of bodily measurements
this was used as a personal identification system
AKA: Bertillon's system
James Marsh - ANS✔✔ Scottish chemist who first used toxicology in court when discovering
arsenic in victim's body
Earliest developments of forensic sciences comes from - ANS✔✔ Chinese
Francis Henry Galton - ANS✔✔ studied fingerprints and developed method to classifying them
has book called, Finger Prints
Hans Gross - ANS✔✔ studied and developed principles of criminals investigation
What are the forensic specialties? - ANS✔✔ Criminology
Criminalistics
Crime Scene Investigation
Pathology
Odontology
Anthropology
Entomology
Behavioral Sciences
Engineering
Toxicology
Criminology - ANS✔✔ study of criminal behavior (psychology + sociology), helps with policy
Criminalistics - ANS✔✔ deals with physical and trace evidence, this includes:
firearms
hairs & fibers
paint & glass chips
fingerprints
blood splatter
shoe prints
Pathology - ANS✔✔ "forensic medicine"
done by medical doctors, coroners, and medical examiners
,Determines damage to the body, time of death, cause and manner of death, and malpractice
Crime Scene Inverstigation (CSI) - ANS✔✔ deals with identification, preservation, and collection
of evidence (actually processes crime scene)
Odontology - ANS✔✔ identifies human remains through teeth
Since teeth are harder than bone and have unique patterns, x-rays for comparison and bite
mark identification are possible
Anthropology - ANS✔✔ examination of human skeletal remains
Used to sort through mass casualties, identifying individuals, and determining age, sex,
ethnicity, and cause of death
Entomology - ANS✔✔ examination of human skeletal remains
Used to sort through mass casualties, identifying individuals, and determining age, sex,
ethnicity, and cause of death
Behavioral Sciences - ANS✔✔ psychology (study of human behavior) and psychiatry (medical
branch of the study of diseases of the mind)
could be involved with insanity, competency to withstand trial
Engineering - ANS✔✔ examine structures, materials or processes that fail,
common with civil suits
, Toxicology - ANS✔✔ identification of poisons in the body (includes illegal drugs, venom, and
medications) this also includes understanding effects and metabolism of substances
forensic science - ANS✔✔ the application of science to the criminal and civil laws that are
enforced by police agencies in a criminal justice system
What is the CSI Effect? - ANS✔✔ The dramatization of forensic science on television has led the
public to believe that every crime scene will yield forensic evidence and at an unrealistic pace.
This also affects the courtroom where it is believed forensice evidence is necessary
Alphonse Bertillon - ANS✔✔ French scientists who developed anthropometry, which is a series
of bodily measurements
this was used as a personal identification system
AKA: Bertillon's system
James Marsh - ANS✔✔ Scottish chemist who first used toxicology in court when discovering
arsenic in victim's body
Earliest developments of forensic sciences comes from - ANS✔✔ Chinese
Francis Henry Galton - ANS✔✔ studied fingerprints and developed method to classifying them
has book called, Finger Prints
Hans Gross - ANS✔✔ studied and developed principles of criminals investigation
