[FIVS 205] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (265 pages long!)

• School: Texas A&M University
• Department: Forensic & Inv Science
• Course: FIVS 205
• Professor: Brundage Adrienne

Document Summary

Selection overview: forensic scientist (criminalists) are concerned with the unlikely and the unusual, pioneer of american forensic science- paul kirk (1902- A fs serves science and the legal system: chapter objectives. Interaction of the fs with the legal system. How the fs work within the two worlds. Chapter overview: the ultimate goal of litigation is not to find the truth. It is to provide the best, fairest, and optimal context for a jury to find the truth and use that truth to settle a conflict. Today forensic science has moved to a more specialist model (the fs specializes in one specific forensic discipline) He was the medical examiner for paris. Helped advance fingerprint, firearm, and hair analysis. Credited with the development of probability models that showed that fingerprints are unique and there is a 1060 chance that someone will have the same prints. He and marcelle lambert wrote the first book on hair analysis the hair of man and animals.