FORENSIC SCIENCE Notes Chapter 1: Introduction Sir Bernard Spilsbury is the 1st forensic science celebrity. A legal system does the following process‚ 1. Collect evidence from experts‚ witnesses and police 2. Prosecution and defense lawyers present cases and arguments 3. Judge and Jury (abolished in some countries including Singapore) decides outcome *Innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt. Limits of Forensic Science Actus Reus: A guilty action Mens Rea: A guilty mind or intention
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in fingerprint analysis? Describe a famous case that this person was involved in. Edward Foster is a pionerr in fingerprint analysis. He was in Jennings case. The only evidence in the crime scene were finger print on the wet paint next to the victim‚ Miller. Foster demonstrated that the prints found in the wet paint matched to Jennings finger prints 4.What is the role of the forensic chemist in crime scene investigation? The role of the forensic chemist in a crime scene investigaton is to
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Wrongful convictions can happen‚ they should be looked at more by the system as more of a tragedy‚ but they do happen. In the criminal justice system there are so many different aspects and loop holes that effect the outlook on crime‚ let alone the convictions that happen. If we can look at all of the good that this system brings. All of the restitution paid‚ all of the criminals who committed a crime and have served what they deserve. I feel as if we can look so strongly at all of the good‚ we need
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The history of Forensic science i.e. applying "scientific" principles to legal questions has a long and intriguing history. Notable examples include: In 44BC following the assassination of Julius Caesar the attending physician proclaimed that of the 23 wounds found on the body ‘only one’ was fatal. In the 5th century Germanic and Slavic societies were believed to be the first to put down in statute that medical experts should be employed to determine cause of death. In 1247 the first textbook on
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Assignment Unit 7 Civil Commitment and the Mentally Ill CJ233-01: Introduction to Forensic Psychology Sigrid Hess Kaplan University February 18‚ 2012 Civil Commitment and the Mentally Ill 1.How often is the insanity defense used and how successful is it? I would like to answer this question‚ with the presentation of my opinion and the performed research. It is within my opinion‚ that the insanity defense is used over excessively and is taking part in almost every defense to any
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expertise to legal issues is Forensic odontology. It explores the field of human identification by various ways most commonly‚ by the comparison of dental records of a missing person with a deceased individual. Forensic dental identification principally relies up on the availability of ante-mortem records‚ which are needed to be compared with post-mortem records. Therefore‚ a thorough knowledge of dental records is essential for the practicing dentist‚ as it not only has a forensic application‚ but also
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Contemporary Issues in Psychology 1. Title of occupation: Forensic Psychology 2. History Of the Occupation: -Key figures: J. McKeen Cattell‚ Hugo Munsterberg‚ William Stern‚ William Marston and Alfred Binet. -Use in justice system: Applied psychology to the justice system in 1916 by Binet’s work and developing the Stanford-Binet test‚ which assesses job candidates for positions in law enforcement. Research conducted by William Marston in 1917 led to the development of the polygraph. Marston
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In 2013‚ there were approximately 44‚000 deaths related to drug related overdoses. Approximately 16‚000 of those deaths were caused by drug overdoses attributed to prescription pain-medications‚ such as Vicodin‚ hydrocodone‚ and OxyContin (Volkow‚ 2016). Because of this‚ the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) stepped in‚ and implemented new regulations that would limit the availability of prescription pain medication (Cherny‚ 2010; Satel‚ 2004). The new regulations restrict the amount of pain-medications
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Photography Photography is the art‚ science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation‚ either chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film‚ or electronically by means of an image sensor.[1] Typically‚ a lens is used to focus the light reflected or emitted from objects into a real image on the light-sensitive surface inside a camera during a timed exposure. The result in an electronic image sensor is an electrical
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