FIVS 205
What is the difference between a medical examiner and a coroner?
"A medical examiner is a medical doctor, while a coroner is an appointed or elected official"
Where should you take body temperature for algor mortis calculations?
"Rectum, liver or brain"
Anthropometry used how many body measurements?
11
Bertillonage relied upon how many body measurements?
11
The Frye standard came about in what year?
1923
When did the Daubert test come into existence?
1993
A body decomposing in air is approximatly equal to how long in the water?
2 weeks
A thin film can develop in the cornea within:
2-3 minutes
"What is the mean of these numbers: 89, 12, 18, 36, 1, 10, 16? "
26
"In general, how quickly do heavy meals pass through the stomach? "
3-4 hours
I need to earn ____% on this quiz in order to be able to see the rest of the units (Note: This answer can be found on the FAQs board).
90
What is a portrait parle?
A 19th century system for geularizing verbal descriptions of a suspect's facial features
What is the book for this class?
A Survey of Forensic Sciences, presented on TopHat
Which of these is considered direct evidence?
A witness statement
A 20 year old woman falls from her roof and dies. What is the probable manner of death?
Accident
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
Which of these has the potential to be class evidence
All of these have potential to be class evidence
Who currently certifies doctors in forensic pathology in the U.S.?
American Board of Pathology
Mathieu Orfila spent most of his time studying which substance?
Arsenic
You need to have all of your assignments, including quizzes and exams, finished by:
At 11:59 PM on the very last day of finals week.
Which of these historical figures helped developed the system of anthropometry?
Bertillon
ABO blood grouping is categorized into which evidence type?
Biological evidence
Skin slippage occurs during which stage of decomposition?
Bloat
What type of object produces lacerations rather than incised wounds?
Blunt objects
What causes the greenish discoloration of the abdomen during decomposition?
Breakdown of hemoglobin by bacteria
Who is credited with establishing scientific examination of firearms in the United States?
Calvin Goddard
Exculpatory evidence:
Can exclude a person as a source
What is defined as the disease or injury that initiated the lethal chain of events that led to death?
Cause of death
How do you email Dr. Brundage?
Click on the "email Dr. Brundage" link on eCampus, and then fill out the web form.
_______ tests attempt to answer the question 'Does it match?'.
Comparison test
What do digital imaging tools do to the traditional video and still photography used in crime scene documentation?
Complement
What is the English translation of the first forensic science textbook, published in 1893?
Criminal Investigation
What is the first link under the "interesting things" section?
DNA Confirms Remains of Russian Royal Family
What famous Supreme Court case resulted in the establishment of a nonexclusive checklist for trial courts to use in assessing the reliability of scientific expert testimony?
Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals
The over all disintegration of body tissues by various means is called:
Decomposition
What is Dr. Brundage's favorite beer? (Hint--you can find this answer in the FAQs)
Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA
Who's hands will you see dusting for prints during the fingerprints lesson? (Hint: You can find out who helped with what by checking out the "Thank You" link).
Dr. Meaghan Pimsler
Which of these scientists consulted on the Marie Latelle case?
Edmond Locard
How do coroner's obtain their positions?
Elected
What is the best way to get a hold of Dr. Brundage?
What is Locard's exchange principle?
Every contact leaves a trace
Which of these muscles would show rigor first (assume there was no cadaveric spasm)?
Eyelid muscles
IAFIS is maintained by which governmental body?
FBI
Which of these was a result of a committee of lawyers, judges, and legal scholars?
Federal Rules of Evidence
Which of these explicitly states that the judge is the "gatekeeper" of what evidence is admitted into a courtroom?
Federal Rules of Evidence Rule 702
Which of these is considered circumstantial evidence?
Fingerprints lifted off of the murder weapon DNA matching a suspect found on the victim A footprint matching the suspect near a secondary crime scene
Which of these scientists is responsible for developing the first classification system for fingerprints?
Francis Galton
Which of these is known as the "general acceptance" test?
Frye
"Which of these is a goal of forensic science, according to your reading? "
Help distinguish actual evidence from simple coincidence without ambiguity Allow for certainty and probabilistic considerations Pursue general impressions to the level of specific details Take into account all alternative results and solutions
Pharmacology is:
How drugs and poisons interact with the body
The markings left on a bullet after it is fired from a gun are an example of:
Impression evidence
You are examining tire marks in mud at a crime scene. Which type of evidence is this? (Choose the best category of those listed).
Impression evidence
Which of these references a particular suspect?
Individual characteristic evidence
A secondary crime scene:
Is any crime scene that came after the original criminal activity
A primary crime scene:
Is the site of the original or first criminal activity
The Will West Case is important because:
It proved the Bertillonage method didn't work in all cases
The Culshaw case is important because:
It was the first documented case of matching physical evidence in modern history
Which famous case caused forensic photography to become a popular technique?
Jack the Ripper
Court cases define the term "scientific" as:
Knowledge generated through the use of the scientific method
"Hans Gross started the journal __________, which is still a major source of primary forensic literature"
Kriminologie
"Of the listed organs, where would you expect autolysis to first become apparent? "
Liver
Who is considered the father of forensic toxicology?
Mathieu Orfila
Which of these is immune to outliers?
Median
Who was the coroner replaced by in 1977 in Massachusetts?
Medical Examiner
Which of these is timed? (Choose all that apply)
Midterms and Final
You are trying to analyze some striations on a bullet. Which forensic database should you use?
NIBIN
Which organ would you expect to undergo autolytic changes first?
Pancreas
What does "corpus delicti" mean?
Proof that a crime was committed
Which of the following is not a part of the scientific method as discussed in the notes?
Re-test hypothesis
"Evidence that proveds information about the events preceding, occurfing during, and occurring after commission of a crime is known as:"
Reconstruction
A knife wound is:
Sharp force trauma
The Daubert case was decided by...
Supreme Court
Rule 702 deals with:
Testimony by Experts
Which of these was first drafted by the Supreme Court and then passed by Congress?
The Federal Rules of Evidence
The 7th thing listed under "Recommend Books" is:
The Profiler: My Life Hunting Serial Killers by Pat Brown
Cellular death is defined as:
The lack of metabolism and respiration in individual cells
What does the method in which a latent print is developed depend on?
The latent print The surface
Admissibility or inadmissibility of information is determined by:
The trial court's application of the rules of evidence
The major goal of working a crime scene is:
To reconstruct the events that generated the collected evidence
You are hammering a nail into the wall when you miss and strike the wall itself. What type of evidence did you just leave behind? (Choose the best category of those listed).
Tool mark evidence
Your book is online on a site called __________. You need to go there to get the book, read your assignments, and answer the textbook quiz questions.
TopHat
What was Edmund Locard's main interest in forensic science?
Trace Evidence
True or false: You need to get the questions in your textbook correct in order to earn points.
True
Who is responsible for developing probability models, showing that fingerprints were unique?
Victor Balthazard
Who is the author of the first comprehensive book on hair analysis, The Hair of Man and Animals, published in 1910?
Victor Balthazard and Marcelle Lambert
Where is Dr. Brundage's office?
West Campus, Heep building, rm 404A
What term means "to look at oneself?"
autopsy
By definition, forensic evidence is:
circumstantial
Cases between individuals or parties are called:
civil cases
" . Analysis is the gathering, display, and summary of information gathered through observation and experiment"
data
There are two basic type sof sketches as part of a crime scene investigation: Rough and what other?
final
Sir Francis Galton wrote which book?
finger prints
Public laboratories:
funded by governments
Which jury is tasked with handing down an indictment?
grand jury
Pressure necrosis is often due to:
ligature
According to the glossary on eCampus, _______________ is the technology that allows the fingertips to be scanned rather than rolled in ink to obtain fingerprints.
livescan
What are traumatic deaths classified as?
mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical
You are trying to analyze some fingerprint evidence. Which forensic database should you use?
not CODIS
What is the first step in the scientific method?
observation
" refers to the law of chance, or how likely something is to happen. "
probability
