Agencies
This agency is responsible for investigating criminal cases that violate U.S. Laws intended to protect the environment, human health, worker safety, and animal welfare.
What is the FBI- Federal Bureau of Investigation
First-hand eye witness account.
What is Direct Evidence?
An accurate rough sketch of the crime scene
What is "Sketching" the scene?
Sometimes takes the form of a criminal profile. More frequently assess the mental health of suspects and whether or not a suspect is competent to stand trial
What is Forensic Psychology?
DNA
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
This agency is responsible for aiding taxpayers to remain compliant with tax law, while ensuring that everyone pays their "fair share"
What is the IRS- Internal Revenue Service
A fingerprint
What is circumstantial evidence?
Systematically mark, photograph and sketch any evidence in the crime scene
Recover and analyze skeletal remains for forensic evidence
This means that a person was driving under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol
an organization that works to ensure the safety and health of America communities by combating criminal drug networks bringing harm, violence, overdoses, and poisonings to the United States.
What is the DEA- Drug Enforcement Administration
Small but measurable amounts of physical or biological material found at a crime scene
What is trace evidence?
All evidence needs to be properly packaged, sealed, and labeled and an evidence log is created for each piece of evidence
What is "Securing and Collecting" evidence?
The use of insects to provide information about crimes
What is Forensic Entomology?
A database administered and used by the FBI, state, and local crime laboratories to exchange and compare DNA profiles electronically.
What is CODIS- Combined DNA Index System?
This agency regulates the sale, possession, and transport of alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and explosives and investigates unlawful acts related to these items.
What is ATF&E - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives
This type of evidence narrows an identity to a group of persons or things
What is Class evidence?
This "s" is the responsibility of the first responders where first priority is safety and second is to preserve evidence.
What is "securing the scene?"
The use of forensic laboratory techniques to analyze physical evidence collected at the crime scene
What is Criminalistics?
A database of fingerprint records which can search and compare a set of fingerprints to known or unknown samples.
What is AFIS- Automated Fingerprint Identification System?
This agency works in the conservation and management of fish, wildlife, plants, and their habitats.
What is the USF&W- US Fish and Wildlife
This type of evidence narrows an identity to a single person or thing
What is individual evidence?
Take a step back and determine priorities.
What is "Scanning" the scene?
Perform autopsies to pinpoint the cause and manner of death. May serve as the Medical Examiner
What is Forensic Pathology?
The time interval between phsyiological death and the examination of the deceased person
What is the PMI- Post-mortem Interval?