What a person perceives using his or her senses
What is observations?
Narrows an identity to a group of persons or things
What is Class Evidence?
A medical examination to determine the cause and manner of death.
What is Autopsy?
Narrows an identity to a single person or thing
What is Individual Evidence?
What type of fingerprint pattern is this?
Whorl
Logical interpretation based upon prior experiences and knowledge
What is Inferences?
DNA in tissue, bodily fluids, hair, plants, pollen, and natural fibers
What is Biological Evidence?
The process when the body decomposes and blood seeps down and settles into lower parts of the body
What is Livor Mortis?
These are examples of:
Fingerprints, footprints, shoe prints, tire impressions, and tool marks
What is Physical Evidence?
True or False: Identical twins will have the same fingerprints
False
a person who has seen someone or something related to a crime and can communicate his or her observations
What is a witness?
Indirect evidence that can be used to imply a fact but that does not prove it
What is Circumstantial Evidence?
"Stiffness of Death" - muscle stiffening and relaxing after death
What is Rigor Mortis?
Involves testimony by a witness about what that witness personally saw, heard, or did
What is Direct Evidence?
Which fingerprints are the MOST rare?
A. Arches
B. Whorls
C. Loops
Arches
information received from the senses
What is perception?
The transferred materials when two people come into contact with each other
What is Trace Evidence?
"Cold Death" - Describes the postmortem temperature change after someone has died
What is Algor Mortis?
The reason someone dies
What is Cause of Death?
The highlighted region on this fingerprint with the red arrow pointing to it is called what?
A. Loop
B. Ridge
C. Core
D. Delta
Delta
the ability to identify a concept or problem, to isolate its component parts, to organize information for decision making, to establish criteria for evaluation, and to draw appropriate conclusions
What is analytical skills?
When two people come into contact with each other or with an object, a physical transfer occurs
What is Principle of Exchange?
Cell Self-Destruction
What is Autolysis?
The specific physiological disturbance that actually led to the end of life
What is Mechanism of Death?
Latent Fingerprints are...
A. Visible prints, that are left on smooth surface when blood, ink, or some other liquid comes in contact with the hands and is transferred to the surface.
B. Print that are not visible to the unaided eye, are caused by the transfer of oils and other body secretions onto a surface.
C. Actual indentations left in some soft material, such as clay, putty, or wax.
Print that are not visible to the unaided eye, are caused by the transfer of oils and other body secretions onto a surface.