FIVS 205 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Mathieu Orfila, Drug Enforcement Administration, Voir Dire
18 Apr 2016
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Generalist: in forensic science, an analyst that is qualified to work in several disciplines. Specialist: a forensic scientist that works only in one area. Key people in the history of forensic science. Served as a medical examiner in paris and helped advance fingerprint, firearms, and hair analysis when forensics was emerging as a scientific discipline. Credited with developing models that showed there is approximately one change in 1060 that any two people will have the same patters. 1910: along with marcelle lambert, wrote the first comprehensive book on hair analysis the hair of man and animals. Developed an advanced photographic method of comparing markings on bullets. Among the first to note distinctive markings in firearms including firing pin impressions and fabric impressions. Developed the first systematic method for the identification of suspects and criminals not based on fingerprints. Anthropometry (or bertillonage): a system of criminal identification based on a series of 11 body measurements of physical features.
