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Answer the following 4 questions, based on documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsKUrxC7Gkg
1. Identify the physical evidence used in the bombing case. Describe how fingerprints are science or subject to bias? Can the use of facial recognition software, also be subject to similar biases? Please explain your answer
2. Provide 3 technological advances that were described in the documentary that could be used to improve the practice of forensic science. In what ways did they improve on prior techniques or practices
3. What is a digital autopsy and how does this improve on standard autopsies conducted by a medical examiner? Consider bodies at various stages of decay to help guide your response.
4. What biases exist in bite mark identification? What is the method of identifying a match?
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Running head: FORENSIC SCIENCE RELIABILITY
Forensic Science Reliability
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FORENSIC SCIENCE RELIABILITY
Fingerprints use in forensics
The physical evidence used in the bomb scene in Madrid, Spain, was fingerprints left on a
plastic bag that was on the crime scene. Fingerprints have long been used in identifying criminals
through running tests on fingerprints on the scene against other people until a match is gotten.
However, it has been witnessed these forensics are biased as shown in the documentary where
Mayfield being innocent was identified as a criminal only to realize later that was a wrong matc...
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