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FSC100 Test 1Hot Zone - correct answer ✔✔The immediate area in which the crime took place
Warm Zones - correct answer ✔✔Adjacent areas, around the hot zone, the larger perimeter
LOSER - correct answer ✔✔Listen Observe Search Evaluate Record
Three Tier Response - correct answer ✔✔dispatching all three branches of emergency response,
including police departments, EMS, and fire departments
Substantiates - correct answer ✔✔provides evidence for or proves truth
Forensic - correct answer ✔✔relating to or dealing with the application of scientific knowledge to legal
problems especially relating to criminal evidence
Systematic - correct answer ✔✔study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world
through observation and experimentation
Evidence - correct answer ✔✔Refers to anything that can give or substantiate information in a legal
investigation
Associative Evidence - correct answer ✔✔Any evidence that places an individual at a scene and/or with
a victim
Class Evidence - correct answer ✔✔Evidence that requires classification into a more narrow range (hair,
blood, urine, things human and nonhuman)
Trace - correct answer ✔✔Physical evidence that has been extracted from another substance and is in
small amounts (fibres, dirt...etc)
, Latent Evidence - correct 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 - correct answer ✔✔Any information transmitted by or stored in an electronic
device.
Indicative Evidence - correct answer ✔✔Physical evidence that proves that a certain period of time has
elapsed (rate of body decomposing)
Circumstantial - correct 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 - correct answer ✔✔a person who sees a crime take place
Indirect Witness - correct 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 - correct answer ✔✔a witness who saw the crime (aka an eyewitness who brings
testimonial evidence or observational testimony)
Expert Witness - correct answer ✔✔specialist who processes physical evidence for a legal investigation
Character witness - correct 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 - correct 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
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