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R. Hamblin
Definition and Scope
Forensic science is the application of
science to those criminal and civil laws
that are enforce by police agencies in a
criminal system.
The focus of forensic science is the Crime Lab – using the principles
and techniques of the following disciplines:
Biology
Geology
Anthropology
“Ouch!!!”
History and
Development of
Forensics
created Sherlock Holmes
Mathieu Orfila (1787-1853
The “father of forensic toxicology”, wrote the first
treatise on poisons
& their effects in 1814
Aphonse Bertillon (1853-1914)
• Devised the first
scientific system of
personal identification
• Body measurement known
as anthropometry
Francis Galton (1822-1911)
Undertook the first definitive
study of fingerprints
Developed a method of
classifying fingerprints
Leone Lattes (1887-1954
Devised a simple procedure for
determining / restoring blood type
from a dried blood stain
Calvin Goddard (1891-1955)
First to use a comparison microscope to
determine if a bullet was fired from a
specific gun
Comparison Microscope
Albert S. Osborn (1858-1946)
Developed fundamental
principles of document analysis
Is credited for
the use of
documents
as scientific
evidence in
courts
Hans Gross (1847-1915)
Application of scientific Author, also created first forensic
disciplines to the field of
journal Kriminologie
investigation
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Microscopy
Chemistry
Physics
Mineralogy
Zoology
Botany
Anthropometry
Fingerprinting
Edmond Locard (1877-1966)
“Sherlock Holmes of France”
Incorporated Gross’
principles into a crime lab
founded the Institute of
Criminalistics in Lyons,
France
Locard’s
Exchange
Principle:
“Whenever two
objects come
into contact with
one another,
there is
exchange of
materials
between them.”
Every criminal can be connected to
a crime by dust particles carried
from the crime scene
FBI LABORATORY
J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972)