01.06 Review and Critical Thinking Review Questions 1. Forensic science is the application of science to the criminal justice system. 2. A forensic scientist is to collect and analyze the evidence found at a crime scene‚ and trains other law enforcement individuals in how to record and collect evidence. 3. There are several different criteria that are used to determine if someone is able to serve as an expert witness. Courts typically take into consideration a person’s education degrees
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responsible for the crime will not be at the crime site when the crime is discovered. Forensic scientists have to rely on the evidence at the scene to piece together who might have committed the crime. Also fires and explosion can cause a great deal of damage to the crime scene. The evidence traditionally found at other crime scenes is likely to be destroyed or damaged at these crime scenes‚ making it necessary for forensic scientists to focus on other types of evidence in their investigation. 2. What
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Low Down and Dirty: Anti-forensic Rootkits Presented by Darren Bilby Ruxcon 2006 Copyright Security-Assessment.com 2006 Agenda • • • • • • • • • • Anti-forensics Overview Digital Forensics Acquisition The Live Imaging Process How Live Forensics Tools Work DDefy Introduction NTFS Basics DDefy Disk Forensics Demonstration DDefy Challenges DDefy Memory Forensics Demonstration Better Methods for Live Imaging Copyright Security-Assessment.com 2006 This is Not… • A demonstration of 0day
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testimony. 2. What are individual characteristics? Give an example of an individual characteristic? Individual characteristics are properties associated with a common source to a high degree of certainty. An example of individual characteristics that forensic scientists may look for are the ridge characteristics of two fingerprint samples. 3. What is the difference between individual characteristics and class characteristics? Class characteristics are those that can only be associated with groups not
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time of death‚ which one do you think is most effective? Why? Do you think you would like to participate in an autopsy? Why or why not? If you were a forensic anthropologist and were studying human remains‚ what information would you look for in the bones? Why would this information be helpful? What can the distribution of bones tell a forensic scientist? What do you think would be the most challenging aspect of colImagine that you are at a crime scene. You find skeletal remains‚ but the skeleton
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challenge.? I have never given up on the what-ifs because often what did not happen can be more engaging than what actually happened. Take for example‚ the debate over the cause of Napoleon?s death that textbooks set down as stomach cancer. There were forensic doctors who examined strands of Napoleon?s hair and found traces of arsenic‚ suggesting that the emperor of France did not die of natural causes and could have been murdered with regular doses of arsenic. This debate always makes me wonder if it
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match with the handwritings letters. 4. How are stamped signatures different from written signatures? Stamped signatures are stamped and written signatures are written. Critical Thinking Questions 1. Why are questioned documents important in forensic science? What is one example of a situation where a questioned document might be an important part of a criminal case? 2. What are some of the ways that a document examiner might try to match a questioned document to a specific typewriter? What aspects
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Review Questions What is toxicology? the study of substances that cause adverse effects in humans or other organisms Who was Mathieu Orfila? a Spanish-born chemist who published one of the first written works dedicated to the topic of poisons and medications What is strychnine? What symptoms does it cause? It comes from the seeds of the strychnine tree‚ and strychnine poisoning can occur through consumption‚ inhalation‚ or absorption by mucous membranes. Symptoms are painful cramps and muscle
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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 analyze all chemicals using a varitey of tests. 5.Who helped pioneer forensic chemistry? Describe one of her famous cases. France McGill helped pioneer forensice chemistry. One of her famous case was the one involving an old coupler
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What is the NIBIN? It is The National Integrated Ballistic Information Network‚ which is a computer network used to have images of recovered ballistic evidence. 2. What is rifling? What two types of markings does this produce? Rifling is given spiral grooves by the manufacturer. The two types are grooves and lands. 3. What is a distance determination? How is this done? The process of estimating the distance between where a shot is fired and its target. It is done by looking at the patterns
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