Forensic Chapter 2

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

• Crime scene investigation

• circumstantial evidence

• triangulation

• secondary crime scene

Evidence that (if true) proves an alleged fact of a case

• trace evidence

• direct evidence

• first responder

• class evidence

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

• class evidence

• trace evidence

• direct evidence

• triangulation

(indirect evidence) evidence used to imply a fact but not support it

• crime scene investigation

• direct evidence

• individual evidence

• circumstantial evidence

the documented and unbroken transfer of evidence

• first responder

• direct evidence

• primary crime scene

• chain of custody

A location other than the primary crime scene, but that is in some way related to the crime, where evidence is found

• primary crime csne

• individual evidence

• crime scene investigation

• secondary crime scene

the location where the crime scene took place

• secondary crime scene

• primary crime scene

• first responder

• chain of custody

a mathematical method of estimating positions of objects at a location such as a crime scene, given locations of stationary objects

• triangulation

• class evidence

• datum point

• trace evidence

a permanent, fixed point of reference used in mapping a crime scene

• paper bindle

• class evidence

• direct evidence

• datum point

a kind of evidence that identifies a particular person or thing

• direct evidence

• circumstantial evidence

• chain of custody

• individual evidence