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FSC100 Midterm Terms: Comprehensive Study SetPolice Right Ans - the body enforcing
police force Right Ans - a constituted body of persons empowered by the
state to enforce the law, protect property, and limit civil disorder
Robert Peel Right Ans - brought about the Metropolitan Police Act
OPP Right Ans - provides rural policing needs for Province, provides urban
policing needs where no other municipal/provincial police exists, also
provides support
Atavism Right Ans - criminals were born to commit crimes due to
biological deviance
Positivism Right Ans - crime was the product of social causes
Lombroso Right Ans - atavist and father of modern criminology
Lacassange Right Ans - positivist, professor of legal medicine, and father of
forensic medicine
Bertillion Right Ans - developed Bertillionage
Bertillionage Right Ans - took 11 measurements of head and body,
including the shape of the ear, mouth and eye, limbs, scars, tattoos, and
personal characteristics
Locard Right Ans - Developed Locard's exchange principle, interest with
trace evidence
Locard's exchange principle Right Ans - every contact leaves a trace
Hans Gross Right Ans - Austrian professor of criminal law and system of
criminology
Paul Kirk Right Ans - Father of criminalistics
, Forensics Right Ans - research aimed at the analysis and interpretation of
evidence for a legal investigative process
Forensic method Right Ans - refers to a now-established systematic
approach in documenting, collecting, interpreting, and presenting evidence for
presentation in a court of law
Forensic science Right Ans - the area of forensics that has developed into a
broad field of study; research, analysis, interpretation, documentation, and
presentation
Expert witnesses Right Ans - specialists who process physical evidence for
a legal investigation, entitled to express opinion
Plain view doctrine Right Ans - seized items must be in plain view and in
areas within the proximity of the warrant limitations, can't be intrusive or
invasive in search
the fruit of the poisonous tree Right Ans - the theory is that the poisonous
tree is the original tainted evidence, and that any fruit (evidence) that grows
from it will also be tainted
Corpus delicti Right Ans - "the body of crime"
"the body of crime" Right Ans - refers to the establishment of proof through
evidence that a crime has been committed against something or someone
Forensic work Right Ans - involves identifying or processing evidence for a
legal investigation
Detectives Right Ans - the specialists whose sole job was to determine who
committed the crime and why
Recidivism Right Ans - repeating crimes
Crime Right Ans - any act punishable by law
crime scene Right Ans - any place where an act has taken place that is
contrary to the law
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