FSC100 Test 1 Questions and
Answers.
Hot Zone - Answer The immediate area in which the crime took place
Warm Zones - Answer Adjacent areas, around the hot zone, the larger perimeter
LOSER - Answer Listen Observe Search Evaluate Record
Three Tier Response - Answer dispatching all three branches of emergency response,
including police departments, EMS, and fire departments
Substantiates - Answer provides evidence for or proves truth
Forensic - Answer relating to or dealing with the application of scientific knowledge to legal
problems especially relating to criminal evidence
Systematic - Answer study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world
through observation and experimentation
Evidence - Answer Refers to anything that can give or substantiate information in a legal
investigation
Associative Evidence - Answer Any evidence that places an individual at a scene and/or with
a victim
Class Evidence - Answer Evidence that requires classification into a more narrow range (hair,
blood, urine, things human and nonhuman)
Trace - Answer Physical evidence that has been extracted from another substance and is in
small amounts (fibres, dirt...etc)
Latent Evidence - Answer DNA, fingerprints, footprints, tire tracks...etc often not visible
without some means such as electronics (can not be collected like trace evidence)
Electronic Evidence - Answer Any information transmitted by or stored in an electronic
device.
, Indicative Evidence - Answer Physical evidence that proves that a certain period of time has
elapsed (rate of body decomposing)
Circumstantial - Answer Collection of facts and observations that infer the culpability of an
individual but MAY ALSO BE coincidental — does not establish guilt or that crime has been
committed. (fingerprint on bag, blood at scene, suspect being in area of crime...etc)
Witnesses - Answer a person who sees a crime take place
Indirect Witness - Answer a person who did not witness the crime but knows the people or
objects involved (E.X. bus driver that can identify a regular passenger)
Direct Witness - Answer a witness who saw the crime (aka an eyewitness who brings
testimonial evidence or observational testimony)
Expert Witness - Answer specialist who processes physical evidence for a legal investigation
Character witness - Answer Vouches under oath to good reputation of another person often
in the community where that person lives (Usually to say defendant is a good person)
Warrant - Answer document from the court signed by a judge or magistrate that outlines:
specifically what offense has been committed, the place to be searched, and what people or
things are to be seized. To be executed immediately as there is an expiration date
Plain view doctrine - Answer Items observed in plain view can also be seized. Investigators
can not be invasive or intrusive (if drawers or closets need to be opened unauthorized by the
warrant, the seizure would be deemed unlawful)
Chain of Custody - Answer Process of safeguarding the physical evidence is referred to as
maintaining the chain of custody to prevent unauthorized persons from accessing, tampering,
altering evidence
Fruit of The Poisonous Tree - Answer Any evidence from the original tainted evidence (poison
tree) will also be tainted. For example: develop and identify the fingerprint of the accused on a
murder weapon, but if the integrity of the murder weapon has not been preserved, or not
properly documented
Corpus Delicti - Answer The body of crime (Literal)
Answers.
Hot Zone - Answer The immediate area in which the crime took place
Warm Zones - Answer Adjacent areas, around the hot zone, the larger perimeter
LOSER - Answer Listen Observe Search Evaluate Record
Three Tier Response - Answer dispatching all three branches of emergency response,
including police departments, EMS, and fire departments
Substantiates - Answer provides evidence for or proves truth
Forensic - Answer relating to or dealing with the application of scientific knowledge to legal
problems especially relating to criminal evidence
Systematic - Answer study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world
through observation and experimentation
Evidence - Answer Refers to anything that can give or substantiate information in a legal
investigation
Associative Evidence - Answer Any evidence that places an individual at a scene and/or with
a victim
Class Evidence - Answer Evidence that requires classification into a more narrow range (hair,
blood, urine, things human and nonhuman)
Trace - Answer Physical evidence that has been extracted from another substance and is in
small amounts (fibres, dirt...etc)
Latent Evidence - Answer DNA, fingerprints, footprints, tire tracks...etc often not visible
without some means such as electronics (can not be collected like trace evidence)
Electronic Evidence - Answer Any information transmitted by or stored in an electronic
device.
, Indicative Evidence - Answer Physical evidence that proves that a certain period of time has
elapsed (rate of body decomposing)
Circumstantial - Answer Collection of facts and observations that infer the culpability of an
individual but MAY ALSO BE coincidental — does not establish guilt or that crime has been
committed. (fingerprint on bag, blood at scene, suspect being in area of crime...etc)
Witnesses - Answer a person who sees a crime take place
Indirect Witness - Answer a person who did not witness the crime but knows the people or
objects involved (E.X. bus driver that can identify a regular passenger)
Direct Witness - Answer a witness who saw the crime (aka an eyewitness who brings
testimonial evidence or observational testimony)
Expert Witness - Answer specialist who processes physical evidence for a legal investigation
Character witness - Answer Vouches under oath to good reputation of another person often
in the community where that person lives (Usually to say defendant is a good person)
Warrant - Answer document from the court signed by a judge or magistrate that outlines:
specifically what offense has been committed, the place to be searched, and what people or
things are to be seized. To be executed immediately as there is an expiration date
Plain view doctrine - Answer Items observed in plain view can also be seized. Investigators
can not be invasive or intrusive (if drawers or closets need to be opened unauthorized by the
warrant, the seizure would be deemed unlawful)
Chain of Custody - Answer Process of safeguarding the physical evidence is referred to as
maintaining the chain of custody to prevent unauthorized persons from accessing, tampering,
altering evidence
Fruit of The Poisonous Tree - Answer Any evidence from the original tainted evidence (poison
tree) will also be tainted. For example: develop and identify the fingerprint of the accused on a
murder weapon, but if the integrity of the murder weapon has not been preserved, or not
properly documented
Corpus Delicti - Answer The body of crime (Literal)
