Forensics CTE 86 study guide Questions
12. How can you evaluate evidence for its probative value in criminal proceedings? - ✔ ✔ Evidence
that's sufficiently used to prove something important in a trial.
24. What is considered proper crime scene etiquette? - ✔ ✔ Making sure the scene is safe and
followed by taking proper precautions to avoid contamination or destruction of evidence such as
wearing gloves and documenting evidence properly
39.How do you prepare crime scene investigation reports? - ✔ ✔ Write about the location of the
crime scene, it's conditions, its case number, the evidence found, victims and suspects .
Anthropology - ✔ ✔ Human skeletal remains
Bertillon - ✔ ✔ Anthropometry
Can you identify different biological hazards? - ✔ ✔ Blood, Urine, and other bodily fluids
Categorize physical evidence. - ✔ ✔ Evidence like fingerprints, hair, fiber, toolmarks, and other forms
of trace evidence are physical
Criminalistics - ✔ ✔ Scientific tests
Demonstrate packaging and sealing techniques? - ✔ ✔ Some evidence goes in paper bags, plastic
bags, or containers. Sealed on top with a chain of custody.
Entomology - ✔ ✔ Insects
Explain lab accreditation requirements? - ✔ ✔
Explain scene reconstruction. - ✔ ✔ Forensic Science discipline in which one gains explicit knowledge
of the series of events that surround the commission of a crime using evidence, scientific methods, etc.
Explain some chemical hazards? - ✔ ✔ Acid burns, glue, paint, pesticide.
Galton - ✔ ✔ system for classifying fingerprints & introduced physical evidence to courtroom
Goddard - ✔ ✔ comparison microscope for ballistics
Grid search - ✔ ✔ left to right and bottom to top (creating small squares)
Henry - ✔ ✔ Fingerprinting
How could you interpret biological evidence? - ✔ ✔ Biological evidence can be analyzed and
matched to either a single suspect or a class of individuals.
, How did the previously mentioned court cases impact admissibility of evidence in court? - ✔ ✔
These cases mandated greater emphasis on the collection, preservation and analysis of evidence.
How do you prepare a evidence log? - ✔ ✔ Make 4 columns:
- Evidence
- Location
- Description
- Date
How should we use certain equipment in a lab? - ✔ ✔ Use with care and the way you're supposed
to.
How would we analyze certain biological evidence? - ✔ ✔ Gas Chromatography, Electrophoresis
How would you compose a report for biological
evidence analysis? - ✔ ✔ It would be formatted in graphs for DNA profiling
Jeffreys - ✔ ✔ DNA typing
Landsteiner - ✔ ✔ Blood grouping by blood types
Locard - ✔ ✔ Exchange principle and first crime lab
Odontology - ✔ ✔ Teeth
Parallel Search - ✔ ✔ Work/search in one direction
Pathology - ✔ ✔ The causes and effects of diseases
Psychiatry - ✔ ✔ Motives or behavior(profiling)
Spiral search - ✔ ✔ can either start at the center of the scene or edge of a scene and work your way
around in a circular motion
The 7 S's to securing a crime scene are: - ✔ ✔ 1. Securing the Scene
2. Separating the Witnesses
3. Scanning the Scene
4. Seeing the Scene
5. Sketching the Scene
12. How can you evaluate evidence for its probative value in criminal proceedings? - ✔ ✔ Evidence
that's sufficiently used to prove something important in a trial.
24. What is considered proper crime scene etiquette? - ✔ ✔ Making sure the scene is safe and
followed by taking proper precautions to avoid contamination or destruction of evidence such as
wearing gloves and documenting evidence properly
39.How do you prepare crime scene investigation reports? - ✔ ✔ Write about the location of the
crime scene, it's conditions, its case number, the evidence found, victims and suspects .
Anthropology - ✔ ✔ Human skeletal remains
Bertillon - ✔ ✔ Anthropometry
Can you identify different biological hazards? - ✔ ✔ Blood, Urine, and other bodily fluids
Categorize physical evidence. - ✔ ✔ Evidence like fingerprints, hair, fiber, toolmarks, and other forms
of trace evidence are physical
Criminalistics - ✔ ✔ Scientific tests
Demonstrate packaging and sealing techniques? - ✔ ✔ Some evidence goes in paper bags, plastic
bags, or containers. Sealed on top with a chain of custody.
Entomology - ✔ ✔ Insects
Explain lab accreditation requirements? - ✔ ✔
Explain scene reconstruction. - ✔ ✔ Forensic Science discipline in which one gains explicit knowledge
of the series of events that surround the commission of a crime using evidence, scientific methods, etc.
Explain some chemical hazards? - ✔ ✔ Acid burns, glue, paint, pesticide.
Galton - ✔ ✔ system for classifying fingerprints & introduced physical evidence to courtroom
Goddard - ✔ ✔ comparison microscope for ballistics
Grid search - ✔ ✔ left to right and bottom to top (creating small squares)
Henry - ✔ ✔ Fingerprinting
How could you interpret biological evidence? - ✔ ✔ Biological evidence can be analyzed and
matched to either a single suspect or a class of individuals.
, How did the previously mentioned court cases impact admissibility of evidence in court? - ✔ ✔
These cases mandated greater emphasis on the collection, preservation and analysis of evidence.
How do you prepare a evidence log? - ✔ ✔ Make 4 columns:
- Evidence
- Location
- Description
- Date
How should we use certain equipment in a lab? - ✔ ✔ Use with care and the way you're supposed
to.
How would we analyze certain biological evidence? - ✔ ✔ Gas Chromatography, Electrophoresis
How would you compose a report for biological
evidence analysis? - ✔ ✔ It would be formatted in graphs for DNA profiling
Jeffreys - ✔ ✔ DNA typing
Landsteiner - ✔ ✔ Blood grouping by blood types
Locard - ✔ ✔ Exchange principle and first crime lab
Odontology - ✔ ✔ Teeth
Parallel Search - ✔ ✔ Work/search in one direction
Pathology - ✔ ✔ The causes and effects of diseases
Psychiatry - ✔ ✔ Motives or behavior(profiling)
Spiral search - ✔ ✔ can either start at the center of the scene or edge of a scene and work your way
around in a circular motion
The 7 S's to securing a crime scene are: - ✔ ✔ 1. Securing the Scene
2. Separating the Witnesses
3. Scanning the Scene
4. Seeing the Scene
5. Sketching the Scene
