Ch. 2: Crime-Scene Investigation and Evidence Collection

Question 1

The documented and unbroken transfer of evidence

Answer 1

Chain of custody

Question 2

Evidence used to imply a fact but not support it directly

Answer 2

Circumstantial evidence (indirect evidence)

Question 3

Material that connects an individual or thing to a certain group

Answer 3

Class evidence

Question 4

A multidisciplinary approach in which scientific and legal professionals work together to solve a crime

Answer 4

Crime-scene investigation

Question 5

A hypothesis of the sequence of events from before the crime was committed through its commission

Answer 5

Crime-scene reconstruction

Question 6

A permanent, fixed point of reference used in mapping a crime scene

Answer 6

Datum point

Question 7

Evidence that (if authentic) supports an alleged fact of a case

Answer 7

Direct evidence

Question 8

The first safety official to arrive at a crime scene

Answer 8

First responder

Question 9

A kind of evidence that identifies a particular person or thing

Answer 9

Individual evidence

Question 10

A folded paper used to hold trace evidence

Answer 10

Paper bindle

Question 11

The location where the crime took place

Answer 11

Primary crime scene

Question 12

A location other than the primary crime scene, but that is related to the crime; where evidence is found

Answer 12

Secondary crime scene

Question 13

Small but measurable amounts of physical or biological material found at a crime scene

Answer 13

Trace evidence

Question 14

A mathematical method of estimating positions of objects at a location such as a crime scene, given locations of stationary objects

Answer 14

Triangulation