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  1. Define and distinguish forensic science and criminalistics.
  2. Describe the importance of an investigator's understanding of crime laboratory capabilities.
  3. List the three measures of effectiveness of crime laboratories and how they relate to the 2009 National Academy of Science (NAS) report on forensic science in the United States.
  4. Distinguish the Frye test from the Daubert test, regarding the admissibility of scientific evidence.
  5. Explain the role and the importance of DNA analysis in criminal investigation, and identify the latest technologies in DNA evidence investigation and data banking.
  6. Highlight the process of fingerprint identification and comparison.
  7. Describe AFIS, IAFIS, NGI, and NIBIN.
  8. Discuss some of the problems currently associated with police crime laboratories.





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