Edmond Locard

listening to the eternal moaning of the sea asking herself whether it would not be better to let herself sink into the depths rather than undergo the cruel suffering of a wait without hope" (Dumas 40). The narrator is describing Mercedes life without Edmond. This quote is dreadfully depressing and shows that love has two sides. Their love is extremely polarized. They feel either (reverse or no) excitement from seeing each other again or tears from the fact they have to part. Despite it being a…

assembled the world's first genuine crime scene investigation lab in year 1910, which is twenty three years after Conan Doyle made up a frictional criminology lab. Much the same as Sherlock, Locard kept watchful collections of soil, mineral, fiber and hair tests and utilized a magnifying instrument to follow the proof. Locard inevitably detailed one of the imperative achievements of present day criminological science, the trade rule, which expresses that when two things come into contact, they…

Trace Analyst During an investigation at a crime scene, there are many moving parts that are taking place at the scene. One moving part is the collection of evidence, there are two types of evidence Physical evidence, and trace evidence. Physical evidence, is evidence that can be touched or is tangible. Another type of evidence is trace evidence, trace evidence can be transferred between people, objects, or even the environment during the time of the crime. Trace evidence is easily over…

Before the 19th century, witness testimonies were viewed as the ‘smoking gun’ during court proceedings. In the 1930s, French criminologist and forensics pioneer Dr. Edmond Locard outlined his theory of exchange in the American Journal of Police Science (Solanki, 2013). Locard’s exchange principle was derived from the concept that if one makes contact with another person, place or thing, physical materials are inevitably exchanged. Therefore, when applied to a crime scene, a criminal cannot…

Alphonse Bertillon, a file clerk and also the father of forensic science, had only a few days left to prove that his system of identifying criminals would revolutionize police work. With only a ruler, a tape measure, and calipers he took eleven physical measurements including: body height, length of the forearms, thickness of the head, etc. Each measurement was taken three different times, then averaged together to classify the criminal as small, medium, or large. Bertillon called this system,…

There has been a huge change between the history of forensics and forensics in the present day, and if forensics has come this far imagine how forensics in the future will be. About 151,600 people die every day in the United States that is a lot of dead people. If there are those many people dying every day that means a lot of families are losing a husband, wife, child, grandparent, cousin, and more. Forensics job is to identify the bodies and how they died, though for a lot of deaths there is a…

Ridgeology, Edgeoscopy, and Poroscopy After more than thirty years of law enforcement service with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, David R. Ashbaugh focused his research and expertise on the science of ridgeology (Encyclopedia.com, 2005). Ridgeology refers to the method of evaluating friction ridge skin, as a means of identification, based on scientific principals and procedures. Ridgeology differs from Dactyloscopy as it is the forensic examination of all friction ridge skin, or volar pads,…

compared the crime investigation processes they were both similar, the crime investigation methods must have adapted from the Sherlock Holmes series which was influenced by Dr. Bell. Edmond Locard and Hans Gross are mostly known for using the Sherlock Holmes stories crime methods and applying them to real-life crime scenes. Locard was influenced by Sherlock Holmes and credits him for the development of crime investigation methods. He states, “Sherlock Holmes was the first to realize the…

bullet that was test fired from a suspect’s gun. Albert S. Osborn (1858-1946): developed the fundamental principles of document examination that made it possible for documents to be accepted as a form of scientific evidence by the court system. Edmond Locard (1877 - 1966): convinced the police…

The word forensic derives from the Latin word “forensis” which means to be publicly known or heard. Most forensic scientists in the 1800 and 1900’s were self- taught but even now there are not many colleges that are certified to give a degree in forensics. Forensic science has been around since 44 B.C. but it wasn’t recognized as a method of science until the late 20th century. Forensic science is an asset in solving crime. Forensic science has become so popular in the past twenty- five years. I…