Dr. Edmond Locard: A Famous Crime Scene Investigator

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As I began looking for more evidence and more information about my career I found a famous Crime Scene Investigator was Dr. Edmond Locard (December 13, 1877 - April 4, 1966) was a French criminalist known for being a pioneer in forensic science and criminology. People say he was the “Sherlock Holmes of France”. Locard published over 40 pieces of work while he was alive, they are the most famous being, his seven- volume series “ Traite de Criminalistique” or as known (Treaty of Criminalistics). For a while Locard worked as the assistant of Dr. Alexandre Lacassagne and a few years later, Locard began pursuing his career in law. In 1907 he went to study alongside anthropology. During World War One, Locard worked with the French Secret Service as a medical examiner, attempting to …show more content…

Edmond Locard’s work led to the use of fingerprints in identifying criminals, being adopted over Bertillon’s earlier techniques of anthropometry. In the late 1920’s, Locard and numerous other criminalists discovered the international Academy of Criminalistics in Switzerland. However, the building did not survive the Second World War. In addition to this, Edmond Locard perhaps most well-known for his formulation of the Locard Exchange Principle, a theory relating to the transfer of trace evidence between objects, stating that “every contact leaves a trace”. The theory dictates that when two objects come into contact with one another, each will take something from the other object or leave something behind. Unfortunately, Edmond Locard died in 1966 at the age of 89. However his exchange principle has been one of the best influential piece of work in the forensic science, and is frequently quoted to this day. Edmond Locard was a great example of a forensic science expert and I learned a lot from all of his

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