Vocabulary
A statement or information that can be verified.
What is a fact?
An investigator who is specifically trained to identify important details at a crime scene.
What is a good observer?
This organization helps convicted offenders be exonerated based on faulty eyewitness testimony.
What is the Innocence Project?
The application to scientific knowledge to legal questions.
What is forensics?
Mannerisms and gestures effect this about a person we observe.
What is our perception?
Reasoning from fact.
What is logical?
What we use to gather information that is all around us every single moment.
What are our senses?
The Innocence Project re-evaluates this to exonerate convicted offenders and prove innocence.
What is DNA?
A forensic investigator must be able to do these three things at a crime scene.
What is observe, interpret and report?
This can be faulty, not always accurate and doesn't always reflect reality.
What is perception?
What a person perceives using his or her senses.
What is observation?
This influences our ability to see and hear what is happening around us.
What is our emotional state?
A person who has seen something or someone and can communicate that information to investigators.
What is an eyewitness?
A forensic scientist will provide these in a court of law.
What are facts?
During this type of search investigators are looking for pieces of evidence in specific areas of the crime scene.
What is a grid search?
Deriving a conclusion from the facts using a series of logical steps.
What is deductive reasoning?
To start at one corner of a crime scene and run your eyes slowly over every space is doing this as a good observer.
What is observing systematically?
What an eyewitness observes at a crime scene will depend on these things.
This is the science that studies bullets, firearms and trajectory.
Interpreting information that is received from our senses.
What is perception?
Providing information that you thought happened.
Something to avoid when you are observing a crime scene.
What is jumping to conclusions?
This is when we want to interview an eyewitness.
What is as soon as we can?
This must be used in a court of law when a forensic scientist testifies to their findings.
What is proper documentation?
The ability for our brain to fill in a missing word in a sentence is a reflection of this.
What is our perception?