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Forensic Science: Unit 3
Forensic Science Unit 3
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12th Grade
10/18/2019

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Forensic Science careers 

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Medical Examiner, Forensic Engineer, crime scene cleaner,  Forensic Accountant. ... Crime Scene Investigator, Crime laboratory Analyst, Forensic Science Technician Salary, Forensic Archaeologists Salary, Forensic Psychologists Salary etc
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Presumptive test

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Used to determine the presence of substance such as blood, drugs, bodily fluids and to eliminate species differentiation. Example Kastle Meyer test
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Cross contamination

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Source of transferred evidence from items to another sample due to a poorly handled investigation
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Biological Evidence

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Samples of  material—such as hair, tissue, bones, teeth, blood, semen, or other bodily fluids to identify DNA.
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Scale Diagram

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Sketch that illustrates evidence, surrounding items, directional location, information labels, descriptive key, and measurements used to show the layout of the crime scene.
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Procedure of evidence collection

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Communicate with on the scene, view the scene, establish security, plan, survey, document scene, conduct second review, record & preserve evidence refer to
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Print types

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 Patent, plastic, and latent prints
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Trace evidence

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Items that may be transferred between people, objects, or the environment
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Physical Evidence

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Objects found at the scene of a crime. Example fingerprints, foot prints, hand prints, tire marks, cut marks, tools, tool marks, glass, fiber, hair etc.
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Evidence data

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Information such as the evidence name, case #, marker #, date, evidence collector name, crime scene, and location
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Crime Scene Materials

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Assisting equipment such as fingerprint brush, chemicals, oblique lighting, markers, swabs, evidence bags, tape, camera, labels, vials, measuring tape, and caution tape, gloves, mask, face shield, shoe covers, coveralls etc.
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 Evidence Storage

 

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Primary material are paper bags along with vials, contained swabs, druggist folds, and print cards
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 Crime scene search patterns

 

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Technique when processing a crime scene such strip, grid, spiral, line/lane, zone/quadrant, and wheel/pie. 
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Evidence examples

 

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Finger prints, foot prints, hand print, soil, shoe prints, drugs, tire tracks, DNA, blood, fiber, hair, semen, chemical debris, arsenic debris, suicide note, vegetation, insects, digital items/log,  fire arms, bullet/ bullet casing, tool tool marks etc.
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Crime Examples 

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Arson, rape, murder, drug raid, assault, abandon collisions, fraud, cyber stalking, driving intoxicated, Blackmail, Bribery, Burglary, kidnapping etc
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Direct Evidence 

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Directly links a person to a crime by a personal testify or truth of fact or a witness of a crime
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 Chain of Custody

 

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Documentation illustrating the evidence and all individuals of the investigation that took part in collecting the samples.
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 Circumstantial evidence

 

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Any evidence that requires some reasoning or inference in order to prove a fact. 
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Edmond Locard

 

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Formulated the exchange principle that the perpetrator of a crime will bring something into the crime scene and leave with something from it, and both can be used as forensic evidence. 
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Evidence Markers

 

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Identification items used to illustrate items of evidence at a crime scene.
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