What is forensic science?

Forensic practitioners include 9 of the following participants:

Document Examiner- Examining documents can provide you with a lot of information about suspects. Give one example from the Forensics Lecture to illustrate this point.

An example of a Forensic Psychologist and/or psychiatrist is:

An example of an Odontologist (i.e.: dentist)

An example of how teeth survive much longer than the rest of the body

An example of forensic engineering

An example of what toxicologists are responsible for?

An example of what Forensic Anthropologists are responsible for?

Name and define what a medical-legal death investigator is:

The common prerequisite of a Coroner is:

Does a Coroner need to be an M.D.?

What provinces require a Coroner to be a licenced physician?

What province uses the title " community coroners"?

In both, the U.S. and Canada, Medical-Legal Investigators have converted to the "M.E. System", What does M.E. mean and what does the position require?

Which provinces have switched to the M.E. System?

Which Province does not require a medical degree to be a Coroner, and Why?

What is the Coroner/ME's Role?

What must a coroner/M.E. also determine besides the fact-finding surrounding death?

Coroners may make certain recommendations, to help prevent
similar loss of life in the future...What are they not to do in their investigation?

The categories of a Coroner/ME's role are very fluid and can often be confused from one another, Give an example of how these categories can be confused.

Give a second example of how these categories can become confused.

What authority does a Coroner/ME have when conducting the "Cause of Death"?

What are some of the steps the Coroner takes, during a case?

If a post mortem examination is deemed necessary who conducts that process?

What additional step might be included during an autopsy?

Not every case requires an autopsy but how long does it take to conduct this procedure?

How are the results of an investigation released?

Give a few examples of a judgment of inquiry:

In the event the coroner is not trained as an M.E., who conducts an autopsy?

What are some steps taken in an autopsy?

What is the M.E./Coroner specifically looking for in an Autopsy?

When conducting an examination of the interior organs, explain how this procedure is completed:

What is the M.E. looking for when examining clothes?

How does a M.E./Pathologist document their findings?

Although we typically associate forensic pathology (and autopsy cases) with violent deaths...Autopsy's can also be performed in:

When must an Autopsy always be conducted and for what reason?

When Profiling the MO v. Signature, there are 2 general types of profiling, they are:

Define Criminal-Psychological Profiling:

Define how Criminal-Psychological profiling is biased:

Give an example of how the bias of Criminal-Psychological profiling has effected a case:

Behavioural Profiling (Prof. Huey's preferred method of profiling) is based on, what?

Modus Operandi stands for what?

An offender’s modus operandi reflects on what? (in terms of behavioural profiling)

Name two things the offenders M.O. is separate from:

What is the behavior necessary for the successful commission of a crime.

What does every M.O. contain elements of?

Why is it, that one cannot always link incidents by M.O.?

List reasons for why the M.O. changes:

M.O. is NOT a "signature", people can and will change their M.O. over time for a variety of reasons. Give an example of these changes:

What are the two parts of an offenders signature and define each:

Explain what an offender`s convergence in within a Signature Behavior can suggest:

"Signature Behaviours" are best understood as: