Crime and Punishment

  • 1800-1821 History of crime

    Methods used during Dostoyevsky's time were Thumb Prints
    A lie detector
    they would focus on fingerprints and any poisons
    Ballistic testing to match the caliber of bullet used
    and lastly forensic science
  • 1850 Microscopic hemin crystals

    Hemin is an iron-containing porphyrin with chlorine that can be discovered that blood pigments can form microscopic crystals that was another technique that was used during Dostoyevsky's time.
  • 1853 The Heme

    The Heme is a technique that was used during Dostoyevsky's time that gives myoglobin and hemoglobin the ability to bind oxygen because of the presence of an iron atom.
  • 1856 The Arsenic test

    Arsenic can combine with other elements to form inorganic and organic arsenicals. In general, inorganic derivatives are regarded as more toxic than the organic forms.
  • 1877 The telegraph

    The telegraph was a device used to measure frequencies and heart rate and a bunch of other things it measure to tell if you are being truthful with answering a question or to see if you are telling the truth about something.
  • Eduardo Alvarez made the first criminal fingerprint identification.

    He was able to identify Francisca Rojas, a woman who murdered her two sons and cut her own throat in an attempt to place blame on another.
  • 1983-1986 DNA evidence was created

    Dr. Alec Jeffrey developed DNA evidence
  • DNA began to be used in 1987

    The first person to be convicted by DNA evidence was a rapist