CRIM 355 Study Guide - Final Guide: Statistical Significance, Anfo, Cuticle

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 355
• Professor: Jodie- Ann Warren

Document Summary

Locard"s exchange principle the exchange of materials between two objects that occurs whenever two objects come into contact with one another. First duty is to protect themselves, police safety. Work in the crime lab, analyzing evidence, they do not attend crime scenes, and are a system of identification using 14 physical characteristics each with 5 rankings. System was based on the idea that all characteristics are inherited independently, but this is false as many are genetically linked. Properties of evidence that can only be associated with a group and never with a single. Properties of evidence that can be attributed to a common source with an extremely high. Pubic bone changes teen to adult. Very difficult to sex children as sex is not expressed in bones until puberty. Normative standards a reference set of data for example, age, height, that are based on samples of normal individuals of a known age, height.