Forensics chapter 1 vocab

Ability to identify a problem, organize information and draw appropriate conclusions.

• deductive reasoning

• analytical skills

• eyewitness

• logical

Regulations that deal with noncriminal suits brought to protect or preserve a

civil or private right or matter

• civil law

• deductive reasoning

• felony

• observation

Regulation and enforcement of rights that set the acceptable limits of conduct

in society

• deductive reasoning

• criminal law

• fact

• civil law

Deriving the consequences from the facts using a series of logical steps

• eyewitness

• felony

• deductive reasoning

• infraction

person who has seen someone or something and can communicate these facts

• eyewitness

• opinion

• forensics

• fact

Serious crime that is punishable by more than 1 year of imprisonment

• felony

• infraction

• misdemeanor

• fact

– Application of scientific knowledge to legal questions

• fact

• felony

• forensic science

• civil law

– Makes broad observations and generalizations from specific observations

• infraction

• fact

• Inductive Reasoning

• civil law

– Violation of a rule or law that is not punishable by prison

• fact

• Infraction

• logical

• analytical skills

– Conclusions drawn from assumptions and known facts

• infraction

• perception

• fact

• Logical