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16 Cards in this Set
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3 things a forensic scientist would do |
Professional testimony in court Analyse evidence Collect evidence at crime scene |
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Who is Edmund Locard? |
A forensic scientist in the early 1900s |
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What is the Locard Principle |
Whenever a person and an object, or 2 people or 2 objects come in contact with each other, there is ALWAYS a transfer of material |
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What is a crime scene? |
A place where an offense has been committed and forensic evidence may be gathered |
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Does evidence always have to be found at the crime scene? |
No |
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What is evidence when it is found? |
Unknown evidence because the moment you collect it, you are unsure as to who or where it came from |
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What is a control sample? |
Evidence from a suspect or victim that is used to compare crime scene evidence to |
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Who are control samples collected from |
The victim and/or the suspect |
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What is circumstantial evidence? |
Places someone somewhere but doesn't prove that they did amything |
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What are the two types of circumstantial evidence? |
Biological and non-biological |
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What is direct evidence |
Evidence that proves a fact without any inferences or assumptions |
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What are the two types of direct evidence? |
Testimonial and physical |
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What is individual evidence? |
Evidence that can be linked to a unique, single, specific source |
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What is class evidence? |
Evidence that cannot be linked to a unique, single, specific source, but instead is associated with a group of people |
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How can class evidence be used to narrow down a field of suspects? |
With enough, you can narrow down the search to one person |
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True or false: DNA determines your fingerprint pattern |
False |
