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The Chinese recorded thumb prints on clay sculptures and documents without a classification system in place.
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Erasistratus is a Greek physician who noted that his patients' pulse rate appeared to increase when they lied.
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This marked the first documentation of medical knowledge aimed at solving crimes. The book detailed the difference between drowning and strangulation
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Fortunatus Fidelis, an Italian doctor, performs what is defined as "application of medical knowledge to legal questions."
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Orfila is considered the father of modern toxicology and his book helped progress crime investigations worldwide.
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Scotland Yard's Henry Goddard became the first person to use physical analysis to place a bullet to the murder weapon.
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This reform consisted of all of his reforms and is known to be his most effective reforms. It gave Russia a new court system and order of legal proceedings.
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Englishmen Henry Faulds and William James Herschel describe the uniqueness of people's fingerprints in the British scientific journal Nature.
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Chicago is the first US city to adopt this technique of human body measurement used in anthropological classification to the identification of criminals.
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The National Bureau of Criminal Identification was created for the purpose of exchanging arrest information.
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The Henry Classification System becomes the standard for criminal fingerprinting techniques worldwide.
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This case involved two people who managed to be put into prison under the same name and looked very similar. The case changed the way people were classified and identified.
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In Lyon, France, a physician named Edmond Locard established the crime laboratory.
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This proposal was made in response to the Kaiser and German war criminals that were gonna be tried. Although the Kaiser was never tried, the proposal still made it into Article 227 of the Treaty of Versailles.
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This American physician created the comparison microscope to help determine which bullets came from which shell casings.
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This time period is generally when the world decided that crime needs more advanced forms of investigation. Forensic science finally becomes necessary in investigations due to these raised crime rates.
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The United Nations Security Council established the ICTY in response to the ethnic fighting and violence occurring due to the break up of the former Yugoslavia.
