PSYCH 3CC3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Suggestibility
18 Feb 2015
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Psych 3cc3 lecture 1: victim identification from bones, facial reconstruction, biology, botany (plant bio, entomology (insects what can they tell you about the crime, chemistry, analysis of substances. Engineering: accident reconstruction, fire & explosion analysis, medicine, pathology, odontology (teeth, toxicology (toxins, poison, meteorology (what was the weather like at the time/location of crime, accounting, virtually any area of knowledge, if applied to legal questions, is forensic, related to both criminal systems & to the civil court system (ex. adoption, divorce) although the civil court system is not depicted in media as much. Forensic psychology: doesn"t have long of a history as forensic science, couple hundred years old, appears in fiction before it appears in fact, very first description of forensic psychology occurs in work of fiction in 1842, edgar allen murders in the morgue , detective in the book profiles uses the information in the crime scene to understand what kind of person who did the crime is.
