Forensic Science & Law
Crime Scene Analysis & Evidence Collection
Hair & Fiber Analysis
Arson & Fire Evidence
Miscellaneous
100
Every contact leaves a trace of evidence
What is Locard's Exchange Principle?
100
Police Officers at the scene of a crime must do this
What is secure the crime scene?
100
Methods to collect hair evidence
What is picking & lifting?
100
Intentionally setting a fire
What is arson?
100
What is a crime scene?
200
The exaggerated portrayal of forensic science on TV; influencing judicial procedure
What is the CSI Effect?
200
Method of creating a detailed description of the crime scene
What is a Crime Scene Sketch?
200
Center component of hair that is often missing in human hair
What is a Medulla?
200
Arson Investigators look for these two key objectives at an arson scene
What are the point of origin & cause of the fire?
200
Types of evidence collected from a crime scene
What are: Blood, Hair, Fiber, Fringerprints, & Documentation
300
Series of steps a legal dispute goes through in the court system
What is the Judicial Process?
300
Procedure for documenting the physical or electronic transfer of evidence between individuals
What is a Chain of Custody?
300
Pattern of cuticle scales found commonly on human hair
What is Imbricate?
300
substance or material used to start a fire from a distance
What is a trailer?
300
Can be discovered from a hair sample
What are: Origin, Race, Drug Use, Color, Chemically Treated, Human or Animal Hair?
400
Protects American citizens rights while under investigation of a crime
What are the 4th, 5th, & 6th Amendments?
400
Method of protecting collected evidence from contamination
What is Bagging the Evidence?
400
Method used to collect large amounts of fiber
What is vacuuming?
400
Examples are Benzene, Kerosene, Chemicals, and Gases
What are accelerants?
400
The arson investigator looks for these before the fire is put out
What are: the color of the flames, height of the flames, color of the smoke?
500
Notification customarily given by police to criminal suspects in police custody advising them of their rights
What are the Miranda Rights?
500
A person with specialized skill sets whose opinion may help a jury make sense of the factual evidence of a case
What is an Expert Witness?
500
Method of observing small amounts of fiber evidence
What is polarized light microscopy?
(What is Infrared Spectroscopy?)
500
Types of Burn Patterns
What are: Multiple Points of Origin, V-shaped, Low Burn, Direction of charring, Depth of charring, Smoke Stain Patterns, Trailer Patterns, Material Melting, and Concrete Spalling Patterns?
500
Tests used on large fiber samples
What are: Burning, Solvents, Staining, Density, & Chromatography?