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Forensics Semester Review

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  • direct evidence
    Signed confession
    DNA
  • What pattern does fie burn up a wall?
    V shape
  • Whenever two objects come into contact with one another some evidence is left behind
    Locard's exchange principle
  • microscopic
    too small to be seen except under a microscope
  • individual evidence
    a kind of evidence that identifies a particular person or thing
  • What are the three layers ofba hair shaft
    medulla, cortex, cuticle
  • Class evidence
    material that connects an individual or thing to a certain group
  • CODIS
    Combined DNA Index System used by law enforcement to identify DNA samples from a crime scene
  • eyewitness testimony
    Persuasive but flawed memory recall subjected to interpretation by person reporting it.
  • Name two things blood spatter pattern analysis can determine.
    direction of blood, angle of impact, point of origin, speed of blood
  • Forensics
    scientific tests or techniques used in connection with the detection of crime.
  • Parts of a hair
    shaft and follicle
  • It is one of the 7 s's of handling a crime scene where police have arrived and quickly take a look around the scene.
    Scan
  • What are the three parts of Securing the Crime Scene
    a)protect the innocent, b)catch the perp, c)block off the crime scene
  • Seeing the crime scene is where the police do what?
    Take pictures of the crime scene and each piece of evidence
  • A- blood will have antibodies that attack what type of blood?
    B and Rh
  • AFIS is a database that stores what?
    Automated Fingerprint Identification System. Fingerprints
  • Bindle
    folder paper used to collect trace evidence
  • circumstantial evidence
    (indirect evidence) evidence used to imply a fact but not prove it directly
  • Smallest number of photographs of each piece of evidence
    9
  • Two typs of Fingerprint arches
    plain and tented arches
  • Give an example of minutiae in a fingerprint.
    island, fork, bridge, ridge ending,, etd
  • What are two examples of organic fiber
    Cotton, wool, etc
  • chain of custody
    A list of all people who came into possession of an item of evidence