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Unit 3 Forensic Crime Scene Inverstigation
Mickey, Claire, Matt, Tenmay
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Criminology
Advanced
10/17/2019

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Biological Evidence
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samples of material—such as hair, tissue, bones, teeth, blood, semen, or other bodily fluids to identify DNA.
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Chain of Custody
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Documentation illustrating the evidence and all individuals of the investigation that took part in collecting the samples.[image]
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Circumstantial evidence
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Any evidence that requires some reasoning or inferencein order to prove a fact. [image]
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Crime scene search patterns
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Technique when processing a crime scene such strip, grid, spiral, line/lane, zone/quadrant, and wheel/pie.  [image]
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Crime Scene Materials
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Assisting equipment such as finger print brush, chemicals, oblique lighting, markers, swabs, evidence bags, tape, camera, labels, vials, measuring tape, and caution tape, gloves, mask, face shield, shoe covers, coveralls etc. [image]
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Crime examples
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Arson, rape, murder, drug raid, assault, abandon collisions, fraud, cyber stalking, driving intoxicated, Blackmail, Bribery, Burglary, kidnapping etc. [image]
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Cross contamination
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Source of transferred evidence from items to another sample due to a poorly handled investigation. [image]
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Direct evidence
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Directly links a person to a crime by a personal testify of truth of fact or a witness of the crime. [image]
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Edmond Locard
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Formulated the exchange principle that the perpetrator of a crime will bring something into the crime scene and leave with something from it, and both can be used as forensic evidence.[image]
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Evidence Examples
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Finger prints, foot prints, hand print, soil, shoe prints, drugs, tire tracks, DNA, blood, fiber, hair, semen, chemical debris, arsenic debris, suicide note, vegetation, insects, digital items/log, fire arms, bullet/ bullet casing, tool tool marks etc.[image]
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Evidence Markers
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Identification items used to illustrate items of evidence at a crime scene.[image]
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Evidence Data
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Information such as the evidence name, case #, marker #, date, evidence collector name, crime scene, and location.[image]
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Evidence Storage
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Primary material are paper bags along with vials, contained swabs, druggist folds, and print cards.[image]
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Forensic Science Careers
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Medical Examiner, Forensic Engineer, crime scene cleaner, Forensic Accountant. ... Crime Scene Investigator, Crime laboratory Analyst,Forensic Science Technician Salary, Forensic Archaeologists Salary, Forensic Psychologists Salary etc.[image]
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Physical Evidence
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Objects found at the scene of a crime. Example fingerprints, foot prints, hand prints, tire marks, cut marks, tools, tool marks, glass, fiber, hair etc.[image]
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Presumptive Test
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Used to determine the presence of substance such as blood, drugs, bodily fluids and to eliminate species differentiation. Example Kastle Meyer test[image]
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Print Types
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Patent prints, plastic prints, latent prints[image][image][image]
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Procedure of Evidence Collection
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Communicate with on the scene, view the scene, establish security, plan, survey, document scene, conduct second review, record & preserve evidence refer to 

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Scale Diagram
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Sketch that illustrates evidence, surrounding items, directional location, information labels, descriptive key, and measurements used to show the layout of the crime scene.[image]
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Trace Evidence
Definition
Items that may be transferred between people, objects, or the environment.[image]
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