CSI Evidence Collection & Seven S's

A multidisciplinary approach in which scientific and legal professionals work together to solve a crime

• crime-scene investigation

• detectives

• forensic scientists

The location where the crime took place

• secondary crime scene

• original crime scene

• primary crime scene

a folded paper used to hold trace evidence

• paper bag

• paper bindle

• envelope

The first police officer to arrive at a crime scene

• first responder

• original responder

• responding officer

a location other than the primary crime scene, but that is in someway related to the crime, where evidence is found

• original crime scene

• primary crime scene

• secondary crime scene

small but measurable amounts of physical or biological material found at a crime scene

• individual evidence

• class evidence

• direct evidence

• trace evidence

material that connects an individual or thing to a certain group

• trace evidence

• class evidence

• individual evidence

• direct evidence

a kind of evidence that identifies a particular person or thing

• individual evidence

• direct evidence

• trace evidence

• class evidence

evidence that (if true) proves an alleged fact, such as an eyewitness account of a crime

• individual evidence

• trace evidence

• direct evidence

• class evidence

evidence used to imply a fact bust not prove it directly.

• individual evidence

• circumstantial evidence

• trace evidence

• direct evidence