Forensics Ch 2 CSI Vocab quiz

Any physical location in which a crime has occurred or is suspected of having occurred

• Forensics
• Accomplice
• Crime Scene
• Alibi

Any material items that are present at the crime scene

• evidence
• accomplice
• detectives
• police officers

Typically the first to arrive at a crime scene and they secure the scene

• detectives
• specialists
• district attorney
• police officers

Refers to small evidence like hairs of fibers

• physical evidence
• trace evidence
• suspect
• witness

A location other than where the crime took place, but is in the same way related to the crime and where evidence is found

• Primary Crime Scene

• Secondary Crime Scene

• Trace Evidence

A material that can be related to a SINGLE source.

• Trace Evidence

• Class evidence

• individual evidence

A written record of all people who have had possession of an item of evidence.

• Chain of Custody

• Trace Evidence

• Locard exchange

example of this evidence is an eye witness account of a crime, or a recording of the crime.

• Direct Evidence

• indirect evidence

• Circumstantial evidence

indirect evidence, or evidence used to imply what happened at the crime scene

• direct evidence

• Circumstantial evidence

• secondary evidence

material that connects an individual to a GROUP that have similar characteristics.

• individual evidence

• first responder

• Class evidence

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NGSS.HS-LS2-8