Chapter 7 Crime Scene Investigation Flashcards
A search pattern often used for an area that is large or outdoors in which the area is divided into four different sections and searched using an alternative search pattern.
Zone quadrant search pattern
The property that belongs to an individual and is not open to the public and where the person occupying that property has an expectation of privacy.
Private property
A person believed to have committed a crime or offense.
Suspect
Fingerprints that are visible to the naked eye and are transferred from the friction ridges on fingers by a foreign substance (not a body residue) like blood, paint, or dirt.
Patent prints
The documentation of who came into contact with the evidence, as well as when, why, and what changes, if any, we’re made to the evidence.
Chain of custody
Any property designated for public use and enjoyment that is open to the public.
Public property
The physical evidence that allows a fingerprint analyst to distinguish between prints belonging to the victim or witness and possible suspects.
Elimination prints
A person who has information about some element of a crime or about evidence or documents related
Witness
The person who reports the crime or alleges that a crime has been committed.
Complainant
The method employed in a crime-scene sketching using measurements made from at least two fixed objects to form a triangle.
Triangulation
A type of fingerprint that is invisible to the naked eye and is the most common evidence found at crime scenes. Latent prints result from body residues left behind when the friction ridges of the hands or feet make contact with a surface.
Latent prints
A process that involves making detailed and systematic inquires or observations that begins upon the officer’s arrival at the scene of a reported crime, and usually ends with him or her filling the initial report or turning the matter over to a detective or investigator.
Investigation
A search pattern often used outside by one person in which the searcher begins at a certain point and walks in increasingly larger circles to the outmost boundary of the search area.
Spiral search pattern
A depiction of a crime scene sketched as if looking down from above the scene.
Birds eye view
A person harmed by a crime.
Victim
A search pattern often used at extremely large search area that entails dividing the area into a number of pie-shaped sections, which are usually searched using the strip/line search pattern.
Pie wheel search pattern
A variation of the strip/line search pattern that is often used indoors and which overlaps a series of lanes in a cross pattern, making the search more methodical and thorough.
Grid search pattern
Any method or imbedded fingerprints made by touching a surface that is impressionable, or when the fingers or hands is coated with a foreign substance.
Plastic prints
A search pattern often used outside by several people in which the search pattern area is divided into lanes that are searched by one or more people in both directions until the entire area has been examined.
Strip line search pattern
