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FSC100 UTM Final Exam Graded A+ 20246 C's - Contamination
Chain of Custody
Conflict of Interest
Contextual Bias
Certainty
Confidentiality
AFIS - Automated Fingerprint Identification System
Algor Mortis - Body cools slowly after death until core temperature equals environment.
Antemortem - Before death
Associative - Any evidence that places an individual at a scene and/or a victim.
Chain Of Custody - Breaks in the chain (fruit of the poisonous tree)
Circumstantial - HINT: TYPE OF FORMATION
Facts, observations, activities from which the culpability of an individual may be inferred.
Class - Evidence that requires classification into a more narrow range. Ex: hair, blood, urine, saliva, semen.
Close Up Photos - Allows the viewer to see all evident detail on the item of evidence
Code of Ethics - Systematic statement of rules, regulations or laws, developed by a community to promote its values.
(ex. employee code of conduct)
CODIS - Combined DNA Index System, used for housing and comparing DNA profiles. (Developed by the FBI)
Conditional - HINT: TYPE OF FORMATION
Produced by event or action
Contamination - Loss, destruction, or alteration of physical evidence.
Coroner - a person whose standard role is to confirm and certify the death of an individual.
Has authority of the body and the overall death investigation. Crime - An act forbidden by law and punishable
Crime Scene Investigation - Term referring to processes associated with investigation of
criminal events
Criminalistics - Term for analysis of physical evidence. (often called forensic scientists)
Criminology - Scientific study of crime
Cross Contamination - Unintended movement of material between two or more objects
CSI Effect - Combination of effects that might appear to contradict each other
Decomposition - When the body breaks down.
2 ways: body's own enzymes (autolysis) or bacteria from in/on the body (putrefaction)
Electronic - Electronic evidence.
Ethics - Well-founded standards of right and wrong that dictate what humans ought to do.
Encourage Virtues: honesty, loyalty, compassion
Evidence - Anything that can help prove or disprove a point in question
Examples of Sharp Force Trauma - Knives, picks, axes, hatchets, machetes.
Indicators of suicide:
-wounds under clothing
-weapon present
-wounds at throat, wrists, ankles
-body not moves
Indicators of homicide:
-defensive wounds
-no weapon present
-usually injuries to vital organs
-body moved
Expert Witness - A specialist witness, such as a forensic scientist, who testifies at a trial.
Forensic Method - Systematic approach to documenting, collecting, interpreting and presenting evidence for presentation in court of law
Forensic Pathologists - Forensic pathologists perform coroner-ordered autopsies.
Specialized medical doctors.
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