CJ 402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Drug Enforcement Agency, Forensic Photography, Trace Evidence
Document Summary
Study and application in matters of law. Trace evidence: types of crime labs. Fbi (federal bureau of investigation) - gets involved when a crime crosses a state line or if a crime involves a government building. Dept. of treasury has lab for irs. Fish and wildlife service: state crime labs. Located in auburn, montgomery, huntsville, mobile, tuscaloosa, birmingham. History of forensic science brothers murder on the sword of the murderer pocket that matched a shred of paper on the gun. 700 ad: chinese used fingerprints to identify documents and clay sculptures. 1000: roman courts determined bloody palm prints were used to frame a man for his. 1149: king richard introduced the idea of the coroner to investigate questionable deaths. 1248: a murder in china was solved when flies were attracted to invisible blood residue. 1514: first use of blood spatter evidence. 1598: fidelus first practiced forensic medicine in italy. 1670: anton van leeuwenhoek made first microscope.
