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Page 1: Forensic Science The study of the dead to understand the living

Forensic Science

The study of the dead to understand the living.

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Broadest definition:

• Application of science to law

• As our society becomes more complex, science merges more closely with civil and criminal law.

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Consider: FDA

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10 divisions of the American Academy of Forensic Science

• Criminalistics• Engineering Science• General• Jurisprudence• Odontology• Pathology• Physical Anthropology• Psychiatry• Questioned documents• Toxicology

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Forensics: Chemistry & Anatomy• 1775 - Swedish chemist Carl Scheele:

Arsenic in corpses

• 1814 – Spaniard chemist Mathieu Orfila: “father of forensic toxicology” (poisons)

• 1839 – French scientist Henri-Louis Bayard: microscopic detection of sperm

• 1892: Englishman Francis Galton: fingerprints

• 1901: German Karl Landsteiner: blood types

• 1984: Englishman Alec Jeffreys: DNA typing

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