Fingerprinting
The lines on a fingerprint.
What are ridges?
The area that a crime has taken place that is not the first scene.
What is a secondary crime scene?
The study of projectiles in motion.
What is ballistics?
The most important factor when investigating a crime scene.
What is paying attention to detail?
Impressions left by friction ridge skin on a surface. Most commonly found everywhere
Latent Prints
A plain and tented fingerprint that has no delta.
What is an arch?
The process of recording who had the evidence at any given moment.
What is the Chain of Custody?
Analyzes clues to reconstruct past events
what is Forensic Science
It is important to do this in order to know who enters or leaves a crime scene
What is keep a log?
Most people fall into this fingerprint classification
What is loops?
A loop that opens towards the thumb or radius bone on the right hand.
What is an Ulnar loop?
The person responsible for the managing the crime scene.
First responder and Crime Scene Investigators
Every cell in the human body contains something that carries genetic information. This information is called
What is DNA?
A person who has seen a crime happen and can give first hand discription
What is an eyewitness
fingerprints are collected or lifted by these methods
What is dusting with black powder or clear tape?
The 2 glands in skin.
What are sweat glands and sebaceous glands?
A claim that someone was elsewhere when a crime took place.
What is an alibi?
The first thing a first responder does upon reaching the scene?
what is scan and secure the scene?
Began over one century ago when scientists discovered that no two people have an identical set.
What is Fingerprinting?
AFIS
What is the automated fingerprint identification system.
The culture with the earliest records of fingerprinting.
What is China.
The person who proposed the exchange principle.
Who is Edmond Locard.
This person listens to the description of what a suspect looks like and creates a sketch
What is a Forensic Artist?
Isolate the area, secure, Systematic search, Documentation
What is the basics of Crime Scene Investigation?
The study of fingerprinting identification
What is Dactyloscopy?