Forensics Test 1 Review
Forensics Ch 2
Test 1 (Continued)
Chapter 2 (Continued)
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100
A statement or information that can be verified.
What is a fact?
100
The location where a crime took place.
What is a primary crime scene?
100
What a person perceives using his or her senses.
What is an observation?
100
A permanent fixed point of reference used in mapping a crime scene.
What is a datum point?
100
50 pennies
What was the evidence in our search project?
100
A folded paper used to hold trace evidence.
What is a paper bindle?
200
A person who has seen someone or something related to a crime and can communicate his or her observations.
What is an eyewitness?
200
Material that connects an individual or thing to a certain group.
What is class evidence?
200
A personal believe founded on judgement rather than on direct experience or knowledge.
What is an opinion?
200
A mathematical method of estimating positions of objects at a location such as a crime scene, given locations of stationary objects.
What is triangulation?
200
Indirect evidence that can be used to imply a fact but does not prove it.
What is circumstantial evidence?
200
On this date, at this time, I responded to...
What should every police report start with?
300
Relating to the application of scientific knowledge to legal questions.
What is Forensics?
300
A hypothesis of the sequence of events from before the crime was committed through its commission.
What is crime-scene reconstruction?
300
Deriving a conclusion from the facts using a series of logical steps.
What is Deductive reasoning?
300
A location other than the primary crime scene but is related to the crime, where evidence is found.
What is a secondary crime scene?
300
Securing the scene.
Scanning the scene.
Seeing the scene.
Sketching the scene.
Searching for evidence.
Securing and Collecting evidence.
What are the 7 S's of crime scene investigation?
300
The grid search pattern.
What is the most commonly used type of search pattern?
400
Information received from the senses.
What is perception?
400
The documented and unbroken transfer of evidence.
What is Chain of Custody?
400
The ability to identify a concept or problem, to isolate component parts, to organize information for decision making, to establish criteria for evaluation and to draw appropriate conclusions.
What is Analytical Skills?
400
A multidisciplinary approach in which scientific and legal professionals work together to solve a crime.
What is a crime scene investigation?
400
Police Officers
Crime scene investigators
Medical examiners
Detectives
Specialists
Who might make up a crime scene investigation team?
400
The "Father of Forensic Science"
Who is Dr. Edmund Locard?
500
Observe
Interpret
Report
What must a forensic investigator must be able to clearly do?
500
Evidence that if authentic, supports an alleged fact of a case.
What is direct evidence?
500
Emotional states
Whether you are alone or with a group of people
The number of people and or animals in the area
They type of activity that is going on around you
How much activity is occurring around you
What are observations affected by?
500
When a person comes in contact with an object or another person, a cross transfer of physical matter can occur
What is Locard's Principle of Exchange?
500
A kind of evidence that identifies a particular person or thing.
What is individual evidence?
500
Physical or Biological
How can circumstantial evidence be further distinguished?
600
Limited
Faulty
Not always accurate
Not always reflective of reality
What perception can be?
600
A small but measurable amount of physical or biological material found at a crime scene.
What is trace evidence?
600
Used DNA to examine post-conviction cases to conclusively decide guilt or innocence.
What is the Innocence Project?
600
Evidence used to imply a fact but not really support it directly.
What is circumstantial evidence?
600
Intensity
Duration
Nature
What determines the extent of the transfer in Locard's Principle of Exchange?
600
What are Grid, Linear, Quadrant/Zone and Spiral crime scene search patterns?
700
Reasoned from facts.
What is logic?
700
Narrows an identity to a group of persons or things
What is Class Evidence?
700
The first safety official to arrive at a crime scene.
What is a first responder?
700
First hand observations.
What is Direct Evidence?
700
Narrows an identity to a single person or thing.
What is Individual Evidence?
700
Arson,
Murder that looks like suicide
Burglary
What are some commonly staged type of crime scenes?