Law
An amendment to the constitution which protects citizens right to remain silent.
What is the 5th amendment?
An alternate location where evidence may be found.
What is a secondary crime scene?
A statement given to a suspect at the beginning of any interrogation.
What is a Miranda warning?
The most commonly used microscope, works by shining a light through specimens, which are then viewed through a lens.
What is a compound light microscope?
What is a point of origin?
Evidence that establishes a fact, such as surveillance footage, or a witness statement.
What is direct evidence?
A crime scene sketch that focuses on accurate measurements and the placement of evidence.
What is a rough sketch?
Avoiding eye contact or covering the mouth speaking, repetition of words of phrases, biting, licking, or pursing lips together.
What are signs of deception?
A laboratory test that when performed will result a numeric value.
What is a Quantitative test?
A substance used to speed up a fire, often a hydrocarbon in gas state.
A process that dictates how evidence should be handled and recorded to ensure it remains admissible as evidence.
What is the chain of custody?
A model to process a crime scene which includes dividing the crime scene up into chunks or sections which can be easily organized and separated.
What is a zone search pattern?
What is a quadrant search pattern?
An interviewing approach that focuses on enhancing the subjects memory.
What is the cognitive approach?
A chemical that can be sprayed on a porous surface to reveal latent prints after about 24 hours.
What is ninhydrin?
Vengeance, hero syndrome, vandalism.
What are motives for arson?
Evidence which can be narrowed down to a group, but never a single source.
What is class evidence?
A type of crime scene photography that gives context, and transitions the viewer from an "outsider looking in" perspective into a more involved role.
A method of interrogation in which the interrogators manipulate the confidence of the suspect in order to elicit a confession.
What is ego up/ego down?
What is chromatography?
A method for analyzing fire evidence in which you use a charcoal strip to absorb vapors from a heated evidence container.
What is passive headspace extraction?
Standard of justice in which evidence must be generally accepted by the scientific community to be admissible in court.
What is the Frye standard?
The second step in processing a crime scene, takes place after the scene has been Secured.
What is Separating the witnesses?
A strategy for eliciting a confession from a suspect which involved the interrogators assuring the suspect that confessing will lift the burden of guilt.
What is the psychoanalytical model
A process for developing a DNA fingerprint using agarose gel.
What is gel electrophoresis?
A burn pattern that results from pouring liquid accelerant across a surface.
What is an inverted cone?