Crime Scene

Scene Photography

100

This is the device you use to take photos at the scene. 

What is a camera?

200

This is what stabilizes the camera.

What is a tripod?

300

This is what you place next to the evidence to see the size of the evidence.

What is a scale?

400

This is when the photo is too bright. 

What is overexposed?

500

These are the 3 different type of crime scene photos. 

What is overview, mid-range and close-up?

Interrogation/Interviews

100

This is a non-accusatory formal conversation. 

What is an interview?

200

This is when two people have logic and rational arguments with the purpose of confession. 

What is an interrogation?

300

This is the term of the people that get interviewed/interrogated.

What are suspects, witnesses and victims?

400

This is the interview technique used for eliciting information from victims and witnesses. 

What is the cognitive interview? 

500

This tool measures physiological  response from a person, including fear, anxiety, excitation and other emotions. 

What is a polygraph? 

Scene Sketching

100

This is the first sketching attempt of the scene. 

What is a rough draft?

200

This is where you measure the evidence from. 

What is a fixed point?

300

This is what you include in the sketch so that you can see the distance. 

What are measurements?

400

This is what you make sure to include in your sketch. 

What is evidence? 

500

This is what is used to get straight and precise lines. 

What is a ruler?

Searching for Evidence

100

This is what you are searching for when arriving at the crime scene. 

What is evidence?

200

This technique is when you start searching in the center and continue to search going out.

What is the spiral method?

300

This is a method that is good to use with multiple people focusing on one part of the crime scene.

What is the quadrant method?

400

This method is when the crime scene is split into a grid and each grid is searched. 

What is the Grid Method?

500

This is when the crime scene is divided into strips and each strip is searched. 

What is the line/parallel search method?

Misc.

100

These are what is photographed before lifted and is very important evidence 

What are fingerprints? 

200

"You have the right to remain silent". 

What is the Miranda Right

300

This is a direct acknowledgement by the suspect of their guilt. 

What is a confession? 

400

This is a self-incriminating statement made by the suspect that falls short of acknowledgement or guilt. 

What is an admission? 

500

This is when an investigator chooses to record a statement, the interrogation should still be conducted first.  

What are recorded statements.