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F ORENSIC SCIENCE An Int roduction to Scientific and In vestigative Techniques

FOURTH EDITION

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Stuvia.com - The Marketplace to Buy and Sell your Study MaterialSection 1 Setting the Stage Chapter 1 Justice and Science

(Total Questions: 25)

Multiple Choice (20-30)

• What were the scientists responsible for the early discoveries in

forensic science considered due to the fact that they worked in many forensic disciplines?

• Specialists
• Generalists*
• Chemists
• Examiners
• Who is the author of the first comprehensive book on hair analysis,

The Hair of Man and Animals, published in 1910?

• Alphonse Bertillon and Victor Balthazard
• Calvin Goddard and Edmund Locard
• Hans Gross and Alphonse Bertillon
• Victor Balthazard and Marcelle Lambert*
• Who is responsible for developing probability models, showing that

fingerprints were unique?

• Alphonse Bertillon
• Calvin Goddard
• Victor Balthazard*
• Edmund Locard
• Who is credited with developing the first classification system for

fingerprints?

• Charles Darwin
• Sir Francis Galton*
• Edmund Locard
• Mathieu Orfila
• Who is credited with establishing scientific examination of firearms in

the United States?

• Calvin Goddard*
• Edmund Locard
• Mathieu Orfila
• Victor Balthazard
• Who coined the term Criminalistics?
• Hans Gross*
• Sir Francis Galton
• Edmund Locard
• Mathieu Orfila
• What is the English translation of the first forensic science textbook,

published in 1893?

• Forensic Science the Beginning Stuvia.com - The Marketplace to Buy and Sell your Study Material

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Stuvia.com - The Marketplace to Buy and Sell your Study Materialb. Criminal Investigation*

• Kriminologie
• Forensic Science
• What was Edmund Locard’s main interest in forensic science?
• Chemistry
• Biology
• Trace Evidence*
• Toxicology
• Who is considered the father of forensic toxicology?
• Hans Gross
• Sir Francis Galton
• Edmund Locard
• Mathieu Orfila*
• What term describes when a laboratory has agreed to operate

according to a professional or industry standard and has proven that it can and does operate this way?

• Accreditation*
• Certification
• Attestation
• Quality Assurance
• How is an experts qualification to testify established?
• Direct Examination
• Cross Examination
• Voir Dire*
• Re-cross Examination

True False (10-)

• Forensic science has moved more towards a generalists model in which

forensic scientists work in various disciplines.

• True
• False* (Forensic science has moved towards a specialist model in

which a forensic scientist specializes)

• Anthropometry remained widely used into the early 1900’s when

fingerprints began to replace it.

• True*
• False
• A space for fingerprints was not included on the data cards used in the

early systematic method for identification of suspects and criminals?

• True
• False*
• Sherlock Holmes stories were not influential or inspirational to

pioneers of forensic science due to their lack of realism to the actual field of forensic science.

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Stuvia.com - The Marketplace to Buy and Sell your Study Materialb. False*

• Locard’s Exchange Principle, “every contact leaves a trace”, is not an

exact phrase used by Locard; it has been evolved from his writings and studies.

• True*
• False
• Forensic scientists can only testify in criminal action suits and for the

prosecution.

• True
• False* (Forensic scientists can testify in either type of legal

action)

• The difference of opinion between two experts indicates that one of the

experts is unethical.

• True
• False*

Multiple Response (5-10)

• What is the systematic method for identification of suspects and

criminals; not based on fingerprints?

• Anthropometry*
• Angiopometry
• Bertillonage*
• Bertonage
• Who is considered the trier-of-fact?
• Judge*
• Jury*
• Lawyer
• Forensic Scientist
• What are the types of examination involved in a court hearing?
• Direct*
• Indirect
• Cross*
• Re-cross*

Matching (3-5)

• Sir Francis Galton =

Finger Prints, 1892

• Victor Balthazard =

The Hair of Man and Animals, 1910

• Hans Gross = Criminal Investigation/Kriminologie
• Sir Arthur Doyle = Sherlock Holmes
• Laboratories funded by governments such as states, counties, and

cities = Public Laboratories

• Businesses that are designed to make a profit = Private Laboratories
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