PSYCH 3CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Law Enforcement Agency, Psych, Forensic Psychology
14 Apr 2016
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Evaluation: 2 midterms (30%) tuesday october 20th, tuesday november 17th, final exam (40%) Anthropology: victim identification from bones, facial reconstruction. Engineering: accident reconstruction, fire and explosion analysis. What proportion of criminal trials include the presentation of forensic evidence: 10% of criminal cases contain forensic evidence. What proportion of forensic evidence collected is analyzed: about 50% Many of the evidence is not as reliable as they depict on the show: bullet analysis, not precise and not reliable (high error rate, bite mark forensics. Highly susceptible to error, judgment not science. Don"t have date to say what the error rate is: hair samples. Scientifically indefensible: only test that is reliable is dna matching, everything else is a judgment call by human experts which is fallible, fingerprint matching. 1887 sherlock holmes: a study in scarlet appears, profiling of the criminal again, again in a fictional content. Impulse comes from revengeful condition of the mind.
