Forensic Science Terms

Abrasion - Answer An injury in which the skin has been scraped off. Accelerant - Answer Fuel used to make a deliberately set fire burn more vigorously ADH - Answer Accumulated degree hours. Time x temp. Amount of energy required for insects to move from one developmental stage to the next. AFIS - Answer Automated Fingerprint Identification System. Scans fingerprints electronically and plots the positions of their ridge characteristics, comparing them with prints in a database. Albert S. Osborn - Answer Developed the principles of document examination Algor Mortis - Answer The postmortem cooling of the body. Alphonse Bertillon - Answer Father of criminal identification Antemortem - Answer Before death Anthropology - Answer Identification and examination of human skeletal remains Anthropometry - Answer The first system of personal identification by a serious of body measurements.