FSC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Forensic Biology, Forensic Accounting, Csi Effect
Introduction to FSC100
What does it all mean?
➢ “relating to or dealing with the application to scientific knowledge to legal
problems especially in regard to criminal evidence”
Forensic Science
➢ science in service to the courts
➢ can have many subspecialties, some less obvious
❖ forensic accounting
❖ forensic botany
Science
➢ Systematic study of structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world
through observation and experiment
Forensic Science
➢ There are governing rules, protocols and a growing knowledge based
➢ Rise out of the unique pairing of Science and the Law
Forensic Method
➢ Systematic approach to documenting, collecting, Interpreting and presenting
evidence for presentation
➢ In pop culture and media, “forensic” is often used to imply
❖ Systematic
❖ Detail-oriented
❖ Evidence-based
..... regardless of use in actual legal cases or occurrence of a crime
Crime
➢ Act or commission of act forbidden by a public law and makes offender open to
punishment by that law
Criminal Law vs Civil Law
➢ Difference is the objective: compensation or punishment
➢ The object of civil law is making amends by compelling compensation or
restitution
❖ The wrongdoer is not punished, only suffer so much harm as is necessary to
make good the wrong they have done
❖ Those who have suffered get a definite benefit from the law, or at least they
avoid a loss
➢ The object of criminal law is to punish the wrongdoing
❖ To give them and others a strong incentive not to commit same or similar crimes
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Document Summary
Relating to or dealing with the application to scientific knowledge to legal problems especially in regard to criminal evidence . Can have many subspecialties, some less obvious. Systematic study of structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. There are governing rules, protocols and a growing knowledge based. Rise out of the unique pairing of science and the law. Systematic approach to documenting, collecting, interpreting and presenting evidence for presentation. In pop culture and media, forensic is often used to imply. Regardless of use in actual legal cases or occurrence of a crime. Act or commission of act forbidden by a public law and makes offender open to punishment by that law. Difference is the objective: compensation or punishment. The object of civil law is making amends by compelling compensation or restitution. The wrongdoer is not punished, only suffer so much harm as is necessary to make good the wrong they have done.
