Intro to Forensics and Crime Laws
The study and application of science to matters of law.
What is forensic science?
Securing the Scene
Separating the Witnesses
Scanning the Scene
Seeing the Scene (Photographs)
Sketching the Scene
Searching for Evidence
Securing and Collecting Evidence
What are the 7 S's of crime scene investigation?
The most common fingerprint pattern.
What are loops?
Any object that contains handwritten or typewritten/printed markings whose source or authenticity is in doubt or uncertain
What is a question document?
The smallest unit of a textile material that has a length many times greater than its diameter
What is a fiber?
A person who studies human societies, cultures, their development, and remains after death.
What is a forensic anthropologist?
A compass, the artist's name, and the location are all things that need to be included when doing this.
What is sketching the crime scene?
Points where the ridge structure changes
What is minutiae?
Who is JonBenet Ramsey?
cuticle, cortex, medulla
What are the 3 principal parts of hair structure?
FBI, DEA, and ATF are examples of this.
What are federally funded crime labs?
Absorbing blood with sterile gauze or cloth is the proper way to do this.
What is the correct way to collect wet/pooled blood?
A print with ridges that enter on one side of the print and exit on the other. No deltas are present.
What is an arch?
Erasures, obliterations, additions, and charring all fall under this category of documents.
What are altered documents?
Absent, continuous, globular, aeroform are 4 examples of it.
What is medulla?
Deals with relationships between individuals involving such matters as property or contracts
What is civil law?
Grid, parallel, zone, and inward spiral are examples of these.
What are search patterns?
Print made by blood, grease, ink, or dirt, easily visible to the human eye.
What is a patent print?
A scientific technique used to identify ink mixture components.
What is chromatography?
What is mtDNA testing?
Implicitly endorses a classical definition of the scientific method, including hypothesis testing, estimates of error rates, peer-reviewed publication, and general acceptance
What is the daubert ruling?
A robbery occurs at a convenience store and retreats home. The home of the suspect is this.
What is a secondary crime scene?
Computerized system capable of reading, classifying, matching, and storing fingerprints for criminal justice agencies.
What is AFIS?
Using a larger font size that requires more ink and makes alterations more difficult and creating high resolution borders that are difficult to copy are two examples of this.
What are ways to prevent check forgery?
The part of hair that is most helpful in determining the species it belongs to based on the pigment, scales, and thickness.
What is the cuticle?