Chapter 2 The Crime Scene Vocabulary Review

 

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

• chain of custody

• class evidence

• crime scene

• direct evidence

indirect evidence; evidence used to imply a fact but not prove it directly

• circumstantial evidence

• class evidence

• direct evidence

• individual evidence

material that connects an individual or thing to a group that

share similar characteristics

• class evidence

• individual evidence

• direct evidence

• circumstantial evidence

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material that comes from a proven or known source

• control sample

• class evidence

• individual evidence

• crime scene

any place where evidence may be located to help explain events

• crime scene

• primary crime scene

• secondary crime scene

• class evidence

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

• crime-scene investigation

• class evidence

• first responder

a hypothesis of the sequence of events from before the crime was committed through its commission

• crime-scene reconstruction

• direct evidence

• class evidence

• crime scene

evidence that (if true) proves an alleged fact, such as an

eyewitness account of a crime

• direct evidence

• class evidence

• individual evidence

the first police officer to arrive at a crime scene

• first responder

• class evidence

• crime-scene investigation

• direct evidence

a material that can be related to a single source

• individual evidence

• class evidence

• direct evidence

• trace evidence