JSB174 Study Guide - Final Guide: Questioned Document Examination, Forensic Pathology, Forensic Anthropology
2 Aug 2013
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Focused on the psychological part of understanding and investigating crimes. Unit introduces the overlap between psychology and the law. Psychology: focuses on objectivity, lack unity and no single shared theoretical framework, low in ecological validity, different explanations and perspectives for one phenomena, evaluates evidence with probability. Law: focuses on advocacy, evaluates evidence with greater certainty. Both focus on individual and predict/explain behaviour (carson 1995) Explain causes of behaviour differently, different approaches to knowledge, methodology. Forensic linguistics evaluation of language to profile offenders or determine if writings from same author. Forensic anthropology identification of skeletal/ decomposed human remains. Forensic pathology branch of medicine concerned with diseases an disorders of the body that relate to questions that might be asked in court (both go hand in hand) Shadow data information remains on a disk, hard drive or memory stick once deleted, damaged or lost.
