CSI Careers
The person who is responsible for documenting the crime scene with pictures
Who is the crime scene photographer?
Indirect evidence that may link someone to a crime
What is circumstantial evidence?
Location where a crime or accident took place. Could be primary or secondary
What is a crime scene?
The first step of crime scene investigation where officers make sure everyone is safe and isolate the area.
What is secure the scene?
The following would be classified as this type of evidence:
Paper cut into 4 pieces, a page from a newspaper, blood type
What is class evidence?
Examines fingerprint evidence left at a crime scene; finds ways to identify and analyze the fingerprint to identify suspects or victims
What is the latent print examiner?
Items that may be tested and examined to determine that a crime has been committed. Examples: blood splatters, weapons, etc.
What is physical evidence?
Which standard requires a method to be accepted and used by scientists for it to be admissible in court: Frye, Daubert, or LaGrange?
The Frye Standard
What type of material is most often used to store evidence?
Paper
Is the following testimonial, physical, or circumstantial evidence:
Patricia claims that she saw Jim inside the gas station right before the theft.
Testimonial
Perform tests on bodily fluids, tissues, or organs to determine or identify the presence of drugs, poison, or other chemicals in a body.
Toxicologist
Other materials found at crime scene that may link a suspect to a crime and have an impact on determining the culprit of the crime.
What is trace evidence?
This principle states that two objects may be indistinguishable, but no two objects are ever identical.
What is the principle of individuality?
Why should witnesses be separated?
To keep them from working together to create a cover story and/or share details about the situation with one another.
Is the following testimonial, physical, or circumstantial evidence:
Adam (suspect) worked at the same company as Bill (victim)
Circumstantial
Examines soil, rocks, and minerals found at a crime scene to provide clues about a suspect or victim
Geology/Geologist
What are two factors that could affect the accuracy of testimonial evidence?
Age of witness, type of crime, duration of crime, time of day, etc
This principle states that every contact leaves a trace.
What is Locard's Exchange Principle?
What are the four search patterns for a crime scene? (draw or name)
Spiral, line, grid, quadrant
Give 3 examples of individual evidence.
Ripped paper, soda can tab, DNA profile, fingerprints, shoeprints, tire tracks, ripped fabric, etc
Examines firearms, ammunition, and other evidence related to guns; may include tool mark analysis, chemical analysis, and physics
Ballistics Expert
What are the two types of evidence this would be:
A person reports he saw the suspect’s car in the same area as the crime.
Testimonial and Circumstantial
Which standard replaced the Frye standard (100) and how was it different (400)?
The Daubert Standard, which states that a technique is admissible in court so long as it is deemed scientifically sound by the judge.
Place the following into the correct order:
-Take pictures
-Collect evidence
-Block off the scene
-Separate witnesses
-Sketch the scene
Block off the scene
Separate witnesses
Take pictures
Sketch the scene
Collect evidence
Location of fixed objects and evidence, distances between objects, "Not to scale", compass, etc