john edgar hoover. contributions to forensic science j. edgar hoover was the director of the united...
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John Edgar Hoover
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Contributions to Forensic Science
• J. Edgar Hoover was the director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for more than 45 years!
• In 1924 Edgar's interest in the science department of criminal affairs led him to have the F.B.I. to use the science in the field.
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• Hoover established the FBI's national fingerprint depository and crime laboratory.
• In addition, he made the bureau's new fingerprint collection a national resource.
• Edgar focused on fingerprints in the beginning and hired a team later to help agents out in the field for scientific evidence.
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• Edgar focused on fingerprints in the beginning and hired a team later to help agents out in the field for scientific evidence.
• Hoover had lectures presented on criminological subjects like handwriting, fingerprints, and ballistics.
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• Hoover eventually established a training program for forensic science based in Chicago to teach agents these criminological subjects.
• Hoover pushed for a separate department and even established a state of the art lab in which the teams could assist in crimes through science.
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Citations
• Fox, J. (n.d) The Birth of the FBI’s Technical Laboratory—1924 to 1935. fbi.org. Retrieved September 04, 2012, from http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/highlights-of-history/articles/laboratory