IAI Crime Scene Processing Book questions with
verified answers
12 week old fetus Ans✓✓✓ When fingerprints begin to develop
ABFO Ans✓✓✓ Best scale for bite mark photography
Action of the Slide Ans✓✓✓ Lifts a single cartridge from the top of a magazine
and inserts itself into the barrel
Area Approach Ans✓✓✓ Single team handles all activities in the area
Body Removal Ans✓✓✓ After documentation & physical examination of the body
(if evidence located - document & collect)
Placing into body bag can destroy bloodstain patterns and gunshot residue
Cartridge casing Ans✓✓✓ Bullet
Cartridge Ans✓✓✓ Complete single unit of unfired ammunition
Categories of Prints Ans✓✓✓ Latent, patent, plastic
Cell Nucleus Ans✓✓✓ Have 23 pairs of chromosomes
Absent in red blood cells (cannot be used for nuclear DNA)
,Circumstantial Evidence Ans✓✓✓ Evidence that requires inference to connect it
to a conclusion of fact
Class Characteristics Ans✓✓✓ Placing an item within a group and eliminating
possibilities
Close Up Photos Ans✓✓✓ Do NOT define condition of scene
Collect Entire Item Ans✓✓✓ Most important tool mark variations occur at
microscopic level, don't just cast the impression
Potential for fracture matching
Comparing Bullets Ans✓✓✓ There are no lines parallel of the lands/grooves
Compression Marks Ans✓✓✓ Caused by a tool with opposed jaws (bolt or wire
cutters)
Constitutional Issue Ans✓✓✓ Protection of personal liberties
Controlling General Behavior Patterns Ans✓✓✓ Regulating non-criminal conduct
(traffic regulations/city ordinances)
Controlling Scene Entry Ans✓✓✓ Use police officers as security, can refuse entry
to people (including chief and mayors)
Status doesn't play a role in entry
, Crime Prevention Ans✓✓✓ Effort to keep crime from occurring
Crime Repression Ans✓✓✓ Active investigation and the identification of those
responsible for the crime (CSI work)
Crime Scene Actions Ans✓✓✓ Assessing -> Observing -> Documenting ->
Searching -> Collecting -> Processing
CSI needs to constantly consider every method to determine where in the overall
sequence it belongs
Crime Scene Log Ans✓✓✓ Have a list of who entered scene & why
Do not have one at every one of several perimeters
Crime Scene Processing and Investigation authors Ans✓✓✓ Ross M. Gardner &
Donna R. Krouskup
Crime Scene Processing Ans✓✓✓ No one correct way to do it
Purpose: to collect as much information & evidence as possible in as pristine
condition as possible
Crime Scene Processing Methodology Ans✓✓✓ Demands knowledge, flexibility,
skills and tools, methodological approach, and coordinated effort
Crime Scene Search Ans✓✓✓ Method is not as important as long as it is
methodical and systematic
verified answers
12 week old fetus Ans✓✓✓ When fingerprints begin to develop
ABFO Ans✓✓✓ Best scale for bite mark photography
Action of the Slide Ans✓✓✓ Lifts a single cartridge from the top of a magazine
and inserts itself into the barrel
Area Approach Ans✓✓✓ Single team handles all activities in the area
Body Removal Ans✓✓✓ After documentation & physical examination of the body
(if evidence located - document & collect)
Placing into body bag can destroy bloodstain patterns and gunshot residue
Cartridge casing Ans✓✓✓ Bullet
Cartridge Ans✓✓✓ Complete single unit of unfired ammunition
Categories of Prints Ans✓✓✓ Latent, patent, plastic
Cell Nucleus Ans✓✓✓ Have 23 pairs of chromosomes
Absent in red blood cells (cannot be used for nuclear DNA)
,Circumstantial Evidence Ans✓✓✓ Evidence that requires inference to connect it
to a conclusion of fact
Class Characteristics Ans✓✓✓ Placing an item within a group and eliminating
possibilities
Close Up Photos Ans✓✓✓ Do NOT define condition of scene
Collect Entire Item Ans✓✓✓ Most important tool mark variations occur at
microscopic level, don't just cast the impression
Potential for fracture matching
Comparing Bullets Ans✓✓✓ There are no lines parallel of the lands/grooves
Compression Marks Ans✓✓✓ Caused by a tool with opposed jaws (bolt or wire
cutters)
Constitutional Issue Ans✓✓✓ Protection of personal liberties
Controlling General Behavior Patterns Ans✓✓✓ Regulating non-criminal conduct
(traffic regulations/city ordinances)
Controlling Scene Entry Ans✓✓✓ Use police officers as security, can refuse entry
to people (including chief and mayors)
Status doesn't play a role in entry
, Crime Prevention Ans✓✓✓ Effort to keep crime from occurring
Crime Repression Ans✓✓✓ Active investigation and the identification of those
responsible for the crime (CSI work)
Crime Scene Actions Ans✓✓✓ Assessing -> Observing -> Documenting ->
Searching -> Collecting -> Processing
CSI needs to constantly consider every method to determine where in the overall
sequence it belongs
Crime Scene Log Ans✓✓✓ Have a list of who entered scene & why
Do not have one at every one of several perimeters
Crime Scene Processing and Investigation authors Ans✓✓✓ Ross M. Gardner &
Donna R. Krouskup
Crime Scene Processing Ans✓✓✓ No one correct way to do it
Purpose: to collect as much information & evidence as possible in as pristine
condition as possible
Crime Scene Processing Methodology Ans✓✓✓ Demands knowledge, flexibility,
skills and tools, methodological approach, and coordinated effort
Crime Scene Search Ans✓✓✓ Method is not as important as long as it is
methodical and systematic
