CSI Vocabulary

a person connected with commiting a crime

• accomplice
• witness
• alibi
• hunch
• investigation

an account of where a suspect was or who they were at the time of a crime

• alibi
• accomplice
• break-in
• investigation
• investigator

the illegal entrance into a premise with criminal intent

• break-in
• alibi
• clue
• investigator
• larceny

a fact or an object that helps to solve a crime

• clue
• break-in
• crime
• larceny
• misdemeanor

an act committed in violation of the law

• crime
• clue
• criminal mischief
• misdemeanor
• motive

to damage, deface, or destroy someone's property

• criminal mischief
• crime
• crime scene
• motive
• offender

the location where a crime has been committed

• crime scene
• criminal mischief
• deduce
• offender
• perpetrator

to infer by logical reasoning

• deduce
• crime scene
• detective
• perpetrator
• petty larceny

a person who investigates crimes and gathers information

• detective
• deduce
• evidence
• petty larceny
• robbery

an item used to as proof of a crime

• evidence
• detective
• forensic science
• robbery
• suspect