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BIOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
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| The evidence that is commonly recovered from crime scenes. Such evidences are in the form of blood, saliva, sperm, hair, tissue, bones, teeth, blood, or other bodily fluids. |
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| The chronological documentation or paper trail that records the sequence of custody, control, transfer, analysis, and disposition of physical or electronic evidence. |
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CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
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| evidence that relies on an inference to connect it to a conclusion of fact—such as a fingerprint at the scene of a crime. |
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CRIME SCENE PATTERNS
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| a planned and coordinated legal search of a crime scene to locate physical evidence relevant to the investigation. |
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CRIME SCENE TOOLS
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| certain tools and equipment that forensic scientist carry in order to perform their duties once they arrive at the crime scene |
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| an action or omission that constitutes an offense that may be prosecuted by the state and is punishable by law. |
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CROSS CONTAMINATION
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| The unwanted transfer of material between two or more sources of physical evidence. |
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| Evidence that stands on its own to prove an alleged fact, such as testimony of a witness who says she saw a defendant pointing a gun at a victim during a robbery. |
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| a French criminologist, the pioneer in forensic science who became known as the "Sherlock Holmes of France". |
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EVIDENCE EXAMPLES
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| Forensic evidence is evidence obtained by scientific methods such as ballistics, blood test, and DNA test and used in court. |
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| items that are used to mark and illustrate items of evidence at a crime scene. These are commercial products like plastic alpha-numeric stands, markers, cones, and flags. |
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| dedicated storage space existing for the sole purpose of warehousing digital evidence and other evidentiary items. |
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| he study of digital data and how it is created and used for the purpose of an investigation. |
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FORENSIC SCIENCE CAREERS
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| Jobs and careers you can get within the field of forensics. These jobs include Trace Evidence Analysis, Forensic Toxicology, Forensic Psychology, Forensic Podiatry, Forensic Pathology, Forensic Optometry, Forensic Odontology, Forensic Linguistics, and many more |
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PHYSICAL EVIDENCE
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| any material object that plays some role in the matter that gave rise to the litigation, introduced as evidence in a judicial proceeding to prove a fact in issue based on the object's physical characteristics. |
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| a qualitative analysis that allows to identify, or confirm, the presence of a substance in a sample. |
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| Print types help investigators link one crime scene to another involving the same person. Fingerprint identification also helps investigators to track a criminal's record, their previous arrests and convictions, to aid in sentencing, probation, parole and pardoning decisions. There are three fingerprint class types, arches, loops, and whorls. |
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PROCEDURE OF EVIDENCE COLLECTION
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| Investigators should perform the evidence collection process in a systematic and careful manner. The process begins with the preliminary crime scene survey/walk-through, followed by a determination of the evidence collection sequence to be used. |
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| a permanent record of the size and distance relationship of the crime scene and the physical evidence within it |
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| Trace evidence is created when objects make contact. The material is often transferred by heat or induced by contact friction. The importance of trace evidence in criminal investigations was shown by Dr. Edmond Locard in the early 20th Century. |
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