Fingerprints
This is the type of fingerprint that cannot be seen with the naked eye.
What is a latent fingerprint?
This material is ideal for preserving tire track evidence.
What is plaster casting?
This feature of handwriting examines the pressure applied to the page while writing.
What is pen pressure?
Deleted files can often be recovered from this section of a computer’s memory.
What is unallocated space?
At a crime scene, investigators find a size 13 shoeprint. Based on just the shoe size, this is a reasonable assumption they can make about the suspect.
What is that the suspect is tall?
The unique ridge characteristics in a fingerprint are referred to as this.
What are minutiae?
Tool marks found on doors or windows can identify this about the tool used.
What are brand or type of tool?
This method separates the ink components of a questioned document.
What is chromatography?
This biometric technology identifies individuals using fingerprints or signatures.
What is biometric verification?
To link a suspect to a bite mark found on a victim, investigators must first do this with the suspect’s teeth.
What is make a cast of the suspect’s teeth?
Fingerprints that appear in soft materials like wax or clay are known as these.
What are plastic fingerprints?
Shoe size impressions can help determine this about a suspect.
What is the suspect's height and weight?
Handwriting analysis is considered this because it depends on the examiner’s expertise.
What is subjective?
Retina scanners and biometric pads primarily assist with this.
What is verifying identity?
Features like line quality, spacing between letters and words, and the slant of letters are all examples of these in handwriting analysis.
What are handwriting characteristics (or points of comparison)?
This fingerprint pattern contains two deltas and a core.
What is a whorl?
Tool marks are classified as this type of evidence
What is class evidence?
Guiding the spelling or punctuation when collecting handwriting samples makes the evidence this. Is this something you should or should not do?
What is something you should not do?
Banks often use this specific technology at the teller window to verify a customer’s identity and help prevent check fraud.
What are biometric signature pads?
This type of minutiae occurs where a friction ridge in a fingerprint comes to a sudden, abrupt stop.
What is a ridge ending?
The scientific study of fingerprints is called this
What is dactyloscopy?
The first step in preserving tire track evidence is this.
What is photographing the tracks?
This term refers to the placement of dots on “i’s” and crosses on “t’s” in handwriting analysis.
What are diacritics?
This is the reason a counterfeit detection pen leaves a dark mark on fake bills printed on regular paper.
What is the high percentage of starch in regular paper?
From tire impression evidence at a crash or crime scene, investigators can determine this about the relationship between the tires and the vehicle they’re mounted on.
Turning radius and diameter
To determine if a loop is radial or ulnar, you must know this critical detail.
What is which hand the print came from?