A unit that documents the crime scene in detail and collects any physical evidence.
What is a CSI unit?
100
Would refer to any material items that are present at or on a crime scene.
What is physical evidence
100
Person thought to be capable of committing a crime.
What is a suspect?
100
List the steps of the scientific method:
Ask a question, construct a hypothesis, design an experiment, collect data and construct a conclusion.
200
These are the two types of loop fingerprints
What are radial and ulnar loops
200
Is often presented to help determine if any search warrants are required to proceed and obtains those warrants from a judge.
What is a district attorney?
200
Refers to any small but measurable amount of evidence
What is trace evidence?
200
Person associated with the person suspected of committing the crime.
What is an accomplice?
200
Draw or describe a delta fingerprint ridge:
Answers will vary
300
Name one of the fundamental fingerprint principles
-Fingerprint is an individual characteristic.
-Fingerprint patterns are unchanged for the life of an individual.
-Fingerprints have characteristic ridge patterns that allow them to be identified.
300
May be called in if the evidence requires an expert analysis.
What are specialists?
300
Verbal evidence gained from the witnesses of a crime.
What is testimonial evidence?
300
Statement of where a a suspect was at the time of the crime.
What is an alibi?
300
The four steps of crime scene protocol:
What is
Interview --> Examine --> Document --> Process
400
Describe or draw a double fork pattern
Answers may vary.
400
May or may not be present to determine a preliminary cause of death
What is the medical examiner?
400
List the four possible places that evidence can be found from a crime:
The body, primary crime scene, the secondary crime scene, the suspect.
400
The original location of a crime scene.
What is a primary crime scene?
400
The top Reasons for Committing a Crime
What is money, revenge, emotion and nature?
500
In the 17th century what happened for the first time?
What is the scientific recognition of fingerprints?
500
Interviews witnesses and consults with the CSI unit. They investigate the crime by following leads provided by witnesses and physical evidence.
What are detectives?
500
The place where a victim or a witness can testify and a criminal a criminal is convicted of a crime.
What is a court room
500
Any physical location which a crime has occurred or is suspected of having occurred.