Did you ever notice as soon as certain TV shows, movies, books, or other things in popular culture become big everyone suddenly wants to do for a living what...
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nikkif99uk
Mar 1, 2002 3:35 pm
Hi I'm Nikki and live in the UK I am just currently finishing a Vocational A Level in Travel & Tourism and suddenly realised that that was not what I wanted to...
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cari4n6
Mar 1, 2002 6:26 pm
AGREED!!! I remember, on one program, when the crime lab was going to perform a sexual assault exam on a living, unconscious patient. The tech was in the room...
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adambecnel
Mar 1, 2002 6:44 pm
I don't think this phenomenon is localized at all. Across the board I hear, and have experienced, it is the norm. I thought I was unique for being hooked on...
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EganLNC@...
Mar 1, 2002 8:35 pm
Listmates: I am trying to locate an expert that will help me decipher an autopsy report. Our client was involved in a MVA in which she was rear-ended by a...
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Robert Parsons
jiyu_san
Mar 2, 2002 12:10 am
Absolutely right on. CSI may be fun entertainment, but as far as forensic science accuracy is concerned it's absolute trash, as was Quincy, Murder She Wrote,...
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Robert Parsons
jiyu_san
Mar 2, 2002 12:12 am
To be a forensic pathologist, you will of course need to earn a medical doctor degree and complete residencies in both anatomical and forensic pathology. If...
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miri
koshergoth
Mar 2, 2002 2:51 am
Bob, Hello. i've been lurking here for a couple months as i've always been completely fascinated with forensic science. i grew up watching Quincy and was...
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Jocelyn Moffett
bubbily_princess@...
Mar 2, 2002 2:51 am
Well, I am a high school student in Canada, and I decided to join this group recently because of a OAC Chemistry project that I have to do. I am sorry if my...
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gifofpolice@...
Mar 2, 2002 5:09 am
There is a formula for the time of death. I used it in a psychological profiling report. The interesting thing about it though is it uses 98.6 in the formula,...
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texascowgrl4u
Mar 2, 2002 5:09 am
I agree I'm also a high school student in Texas and I joined not from the new tv shows like CSI. My reason for interest was from a research project I did in...
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cari4n6
Mar 2, 2002 6:25 am
One element in temperature, relating to time of death, that you didn't mention, is that it can also relate to the outside temperature; how the body cools. Cari...
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kdaizi
Mar 2, 2002 3:39 pm
In a message dated 03/02/2002 9:51:26 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... I get this because I teach forensic psychology at a local university, so everyone wants to...
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Peter Hamilton
prh85ny
Mar 2, 2002 4:25 pm
Hi everyone im Peter and im a high school student intrested in gettin a degree in forenscis sci and then I plan to make this my career. I have a few questions...
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masuyo_tora
Mar 2, 2002 4:25 pm
I am just like Tamara. I am 17 years old and I'm a junior. I am highly fascinated with forensics and I as well know that there is more involved then what the...
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Dave Hause
dwhause2000
Mar 2, 2002 11:32 pm
Cooling is ONE method of estimating time of death which is, unfortunately (like all of them), not terribly precise. The initial assumptions are the problem:...
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Peter D. Barnett
pbarnet5
Mar 2, 2002 11:49 pm
... Pretty good advice, Dave, but don't you know that the Supreme Court requires an error rate for expert opinions? What is the error rate in the method you...
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Dave Hause
dwhause2000
Mar 3, 2002 1:30 am
Maybe, as a canoe maker, I can claim to be a skilled craftsman who just happened to go to school for a long time before starting a series of apprenticeships....
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Ddillonqd@...
Mar 3, 2002 2:39 am
Pete, When did an "error rate" become an essential to "science?" I thought error rates were an essential for routine procedures performed by non-scientists, ...
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sagicorn84
Mar 3, 2002 2:45 am
Jhpanther32: I agree whole-heartedly with what you just said about the accuracy of such television programs. However, I do not think the comment about every...
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Peter D. Barnett
pbarnet5
Mar 3, 2002 3:37 am
... Well, in California it would, but I don;t think so in Daubert states or Federal jurisdictions - unless you were to become an ACFE certified forensic canoe...
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Peter D. Barnett
pbarnet5
Mar 3, 2002 3:37 am
... A bunch of politicians with lifetime appointments and no constituents said so. What more authority is needed? I went back to some of the literature upon...
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forensiccop84
Mar 3, 2002 6:32 pm
I am ashamed off all of you. Did you not know that a law degree makes you, per se, an expert with knowledge in every subject especially science? A little...
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cari4n6
Mar 3, 2002 11:02 pm
Hey, Hey, I heard that crack about California !!!!!! LOL : ) Cari Cari Caruso RN FNE Forensic Nurse Examiner Southern California Regional Representative of the...
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adambecnel
Mar 4, 2002 12:20 pm
{If there are other list members who can embellish this, or add differing view points, please do!} To the students on this list: Having been in your shoes 10...
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wanda jones
wandajuk
Mar 4, 2002 2:02 pm
Hi Nikki, I'm in my final year of Bsc forensic science course at South Bank Uni, London. They do single honours or combined honours with criminology,...
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esther ehrlich
txftrdvm
Mar 5, 2002 5:10 pm
To All: I am a forensic student in the state of Texas and I have gotten an internship with the Austin Police Department Forensic Division. I am currently...
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Robert Parsons
jiyu_san
Mar 6, 2002 2:05 am
First off, let's get terminology straight. Criminalistics is a branch of forensic science, while criminology has nothing to do with forensic science. Forensic...
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Robert Parsons
jiyu_san
Mar 6, 2002 2:23 am
All are welcome here, Evie, no one minds that you joined. We just want people to have realistic expectations if they want to pursue this profession. What we...
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Robert Parsons
jiyu_san
Mar 6, 2002 3:30 am
Well, the documentaries try to get it right, but they're handicapped by not having forensic science advisors on staff. Usually, they have "consultants" that...
