Chapter 2 Vocabulary: Crime scene investigation

Chain of Custody

• the documented and unbroken transfer of evidence

• the first police officer to arrive at a crime scene

• a folded paper used to hold trace evidence

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

Trace evidence

• the documented and unbroken transfer of evidence

• the first police officer to arrive at a crime scene

• a folded paper used to hold trace evidence

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

First responder

• the documented and unbroken transfer of evidence

• the first police officer to arrive at a crime scene

• a folded paper used to hold trace evidence

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

Paper Bindle

• the documented and unbroken transfer of evidence

• the first police officer to arrive at a crime scene

• a folded paper used to hold trace evidence

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

circumstantial evidence

• evidence used to imply a fact but not prove it directly

• material that connects an individual or thing to a certain group

• the location where the crime took place

• a location other than the primary crime scene but in some way related to the crime where evidence is found

Secondary crime scene

• evidence used to imply a fact but not prove it directly

• material that connects an individual or thing to a certain group

• the location where the crime took place

• a location other than the primary crime scene but in some way related to the crime where evidence is found

Primary crime scene

• evidence used to imply a fact but not prove it directly

• material that connects an individual or thing to a certain group

• the location where the crime took place

• a location other than the primary crime scene but in some way related to the crime where evidence is found

class evidence

• evidence used to imply a fact but not prove it directly

• material that connects an individual or thing to a certain group

• the location where the crime took place

• a location other than the primary crime scene but in some way related to the crime where evidence is found

crime scene investigation

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

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

• evidence that proves an alleged fact, such as an eyewitness account of a crime

• a kind of evidence that identifies a particular person or thing

Individual evidence

• a kind of evidence that identifies a particular person or thing

• evidence that proves an alleged fact, such as an eyewitness account of a crime

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

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