Question | Answer |
1. What is the name of your textbook? | Forensic Science
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2. Who is the author of your textbook? | Richard Saferstein
| 3. What are four learning tools found in the textbook? | Key terms, web links, learning objectives, case readings.
| 4. What award did the author receive in 2006? | American Academy of Forensic Sciences
| 5. Where did the author of the book consult? | Mt.Laurel, New Jersey
| 6. What chapter discusses how to search a crime scene? | Chapter 2
| 7. When securing a crime scene, what is ALWAYS the first priority? | Preserve and protect the area.
| 8. What chapter would you read if you wanted learn about forensic toxicology? | Chapter 6
| 9. Define latent fingerprint. | A fingerprint made by the deposit of oils and or perspiration.
| 10. Define questioned Document. | Any document about which some issues has been raised or that is the subject of an investigation.
| 11. Who is Francis Galton? | Developed a methodology of classifying fingerprints for filing.
| 12. Who is Alphonse Bertillon? | Created anthropometry a system that involved taking a series of body measurements as a means of distinguishing one person from another.
| 13. What does CODIS stand for? | Combined DNA Index System.
| 14. When comparing glass fragments, what are the two physical properties of the glass that a forensic scientist must evaluate? | Density and refractive index.
| 15. Name three subtopics under the metabolism of alcohol. | absorption and distribution, elimination, and blood-alcohol concentration.
| 16. What does the Fifth Amendment to the US constitution protect citizens from? | Self incrimination
| 17.Who were the 2 people O.J. Simpson was accused of killing? | Ronald Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson
| 18. What is the debate over Napoleons death...What is the official cause of death and what is the controversy concerning his death? | Stomach cancer/Arsenic poisoning
| 19. What evidence was used initially to find the identity of the Unabomber? | His writing
| 20. What crime was Wayne Williams found guilty of? | Murder |