Deck 1: History of Death Investigation

Question 1

Forensics refers to the application of various fields of science and medicine in the resolution of legal proceedings and is derived from the word ___________.

A) Formalin
B) Formula
C) Formidable
D) Forum

Answer 1

D

Question 2

In 1954, the United States passed the __________ which outlined general classes of deaths that need to be further investigated and certified by a government body rather than a hospital pathologist or treating physician.

A) Model Post-Mortem Examination Act
B) United Coroners of America Act
C) Model for Identification Act
D) United States Autopsy Act

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The local ________ department is the governing body that filters all death certificates to the National Bureau of Vital Statistics.

A) Police
B) Fire
C) Health
D) Magistrate

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The first medical examiner's office was established in ___________ in 1918 and was the first government division of its kind in the United States.

A) Austin, Texas
B) St. Louis, Missouri
C) Omaha, Nebraska
D) New York, New York

Question 5

______________ developed the "exchange principle" which states that whenever two items come into contact, they exchange material between them.

A) Alphonse Bertillon
B) Edmond Locard
C) August Vollmer
D) Calvin Goddard

Question 6

The ___________maintains a list of the medical examiner and coroner jurisdictions within the United States.

A) Center for Disease Control
B) Central Intelligence Agency
C) Federal Bureau of Investigation
D) Homeland Security

Question 7

______________ is the study of physical characteristics of an individual that make them unique. It involves recording measurements of various body regions such as forearms, trunk, ears, etc.

A) Anthropology
B) Archaeology
C) Anthropometry
D) Arachnid

Question 8

The Center for Disease Control maintains a list of the medical examiner and coroner jurisdictions within the United States.

Question 9

Edmond Locard's exchange principle states that whenever two items come into contact, they exchange material between them.

Question 10

Calvin Goddard established the first American crime laboratory in Los Angeles in 1923.

Question 11

Coroners are elected officials and in most jurisdictions the only credentials required for being placed on the ballot are a high school diploma and a voter registration.

Question 12

The history of the term coroner originates from the term "crowding" a tax collector for the dead and originated in England.

Question 13

Medical examiners do not have to be physicians.

Question 14

Forensic pathology has been recognized by the American Board of Pathology as a subspecialty since 1959.

Question 15

ABMDI was established in 2005 as an organization to insure basic skills and knowledge as a death investigator.

Question 16

NAME is a national professional organization that was established in 1966 and is open only to forensic pathologists.

Question 17

Physicians undergo a general licensure examination process called the United States Medical License Exam.