CHAPTER I Flashcards
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AUTOEROTIC DEATH
- USUAL CAUSE OF DEATH
- WHO ARE THE USUAL VICTIMS.
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- DEATH INDUCED BY SOLO SEXUAL ACTIVITY IN WHICH THE PARTICIPANT INCORPORATES THE USE OF SELF INDUCED BONDAGE AND A LIGATURE TO REDUCE THE FLOW OF OXYGEN WHILE ATTEMPTING TO ACHIEVE ORGASM THROUGH MASTERBATION.
- ASPHYXIA.
- YOUNG BOYS AND OLDER MEN
2
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- CHAIN OF CUSTODY
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- DOCUMENTATION OF ALL WHO HANDLE EVIDENCE IN A CRIMINAL CASE
3
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- COLD CASE
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- A CRIME OR ACCIDENT THAT HAS NOT YET BEEN SOLVED TO THE FULL AND IS NOT THE SUBJECT OF A RECENT CRIMINAL INVEST, BUT FOR WHICH NEW INFORMATION COULD EMERGE FROM NEW WITNESS TESTIMONY, REEXAMINED ARCHIVES, RETAINED MATERIAL EVIDENCE, AS WELL AS FRESH ACTIVITIES OF THE SUBJECT.
4
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- CONTACT WOUND
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- A GUNSHOT WOUND INCURRED WHILE THE MUZZLE OF THE FIREARM IS IN DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE BODY AT THE MOMENT OF DISCHARGE.
5
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- DECOMPOSITION
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- THE PROCESS BY WHICH ORGANIC SUBSTANCES ARE BROKEN DOWN INTO SIMPLER FORMS OF MATTER.
6
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- DROWNING
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- A FORM OF DEATH THAT OCCURS WHEN LIQUID ENTERS THE BREATHING PASSAGES, PREVENTING AIR FROM GETTING TO THE LUNGS.
7
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- DYING DECLARATION.
- WHAT ARE THE LEGAL REQUIREMENTS OF A DYING DECLARATION.
- UNDER THE FEDERAL RULES OF EVIDENCE A DYING DECLARATION IS ADMISSIBLE IF THE PROPONENT OF THE STATEMENT CAN ESTABLISH WHAT 4 THINGS.
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- A STATEMENT GIVEN BY A DYING PERSON THAT IMPLICATES THE KILLER.
- THE LEGAL REQUIREMENTS OF A DYING DECLARATION ARE THAT THE VICTIM MUST BE RATIONAL , AND COMPETENT, AND MUST ULTIMATELY DIE OF THE WOUNDS.
- UNAVAILABILITY OF THE DECLARANT.
- THE STATEMENT IS BEING OFFERED IN A CRIMINAL PROSECUTION FOR MURDER OR IN A CIVIL ACTION.
- THE STATEMENT WAS MADE WHILE UNDER THE BELIEF THAT HIS OR HER DEATH WAS IMMINENT.
- THE STATEMENT MUST RELATE TO THE CAUSE OR CIRCUMSTANCES OF WHAT THE PERSON BELIEVED TO BE HIS IMPENDING DEATH.
8
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- EXPERT SYSTEM.
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- A PROCESS OF USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BY COMPUTERS TO MAKE INFERENCES BASED ON AVAILABLE INFORMATION TO DRAW CONCLUSIONS OR MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE SYSTEMS OPERATORS.
9
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- FIRST DEGREE MURDER
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- A FORM OF HOMICIDE THAT INCLUDES PREMEDITATION AND PREPLANNING.
10
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- FORENSIC ANTHROPOLIGY
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- THE APPLICATION OF THE SCIENCE OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND HUMAN OSTEOLOGY IN A LEGAL SETTING, MOST OFTEN IN CRIMINAL CASES WHERE THE VICTIMS REMAINS ARE IN THE ADVANCE STAGES OF CRIMINAL DECOMPOSITION.
11
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- FORENSIC AUTOPSY
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- A POSTMORTEM EXAMINATION , NECROPSY, AUTOPSIA CADAVERUS, OR OBDUCTIONS IS A HIGHLY SPECIALIZED SURGICAL PROCEDURE THAT CONSISTS OF A THOROUGH EXAMINATION OF A CORPSE TO DETERMINE THE CAUSE AND MANNER OF DEATH AND TO EVALUATE ANY DISEASE OR INJURY THAT MAY BE PRESENT.
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- FORENSIC ENTOMONLGY
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- THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF INSECTS
13
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- FORENSIC PATHOLOGY
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- DETERMINING THE CAUSE OF DEATH BY BY EXAMINATION OF THE CORPSE.
14
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- GUNSHOT RESIDUE (GSR)
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- BURNT AND UNBURNT PARTICLES FROM THE EXPLOSIVE PRIMER, THE PROPELLANT , AS WELL AS THE COMPONENTS FROM THE BULLET, THE CARTRIDGE CASE , AND THE FIREARM USED.
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- HOMICIDE
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- THE UNLAWFUL KILLING OF ONE HUMAN BEING BY ANOTHER.
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- HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION TRACKING SYSTEM.
- INITIALLY ONLY TRACKED INFORMATION FOR.
- BUT NOW INCLUDES.7
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- A SYSTEM DEVELOPED OUT OF A RESEARCH PROJECT FUNDED BY THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INITIALLY DESIGNED TO RECORD INFORMATION ON HOMICICES IN WASHINGTON STATE.
- HOMICIDE.
- SEXUAL ASSAULTS
- SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION
- CHILD LURING
- STALKING
- CHILD PORN
- IDENTITY THEFT
- SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.
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- INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER
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- THE UNLAWFUL KILLING OF A HUMAN BEING WITHOUT MALICE AFORETHOUGHT, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.
18
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- LIVIDITY
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- A BLOODSTAIN ON THE BODY OF A DECEASED PERSON
19
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- MANSLAUGHTER
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- THE DELIBERATE KILLING OF ANOTHER PERSON, BY EITHER VOLUNTARY OR INVOLUNTARY CLASSIFICATION.
20
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- MASS MURDER.
- HOW MANY MURDERS MAKE IT A MASS MURDER.
- AT HOW MANY LOCATIONS
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- THE COMMISSION OF FOUR OR MORE MURDERS IN A SINGLE INCIDENT WITHIN A SHORT SPAN OF TIME.
- FOUR OR MORE.
- JUST ONE LOCATION, WITHIN ONE EVENT.
21
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- MURDER
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1.THE PURPOSEFUL, PREMEDITATED, AND UNLAWFUL TAKING OF HUMAN LIFE BY ANOTHER PERSON
22
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- NATIONAL CENTER FOR ANALYSIS OF VIOLENT CRIME, WHAT DOES IT COMBAT.
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- SERIAL AND VIOLENT CRIME.
23
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- NATURAL DEATH
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- A DEATH THAT IS PRIMARILY ATTRIBUTED TO NATURAL AGENTS. USUALLY AN ILLNESS OR MALFUNCTION OF THE BODY.
24
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- POSTMORTEM LIVIDITY
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- A PURPLISH COLORATION OF THE SKIN OF A DECEASED PERSON
25
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- RIGOR MORTIS
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- THE PROCESS OF STIFFENING OR CONTRACTION OF THE MUSCLES OF A DECEASED PERSON AFTER THE VITAL FUNCTIONS CEASE.
26
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- SCENE-CONSCIOUS
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- WHEN AN INVESTIGATOR BECOMES AWARE OF THE CRIME SCENE SITUATION AND IS PREPARED TO TAKE CERTAIN IMMEDIATE ACTIONS.
27
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- SECOND DEGREE MURDER.
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- A FORM OF HOMICIDE THERE THE SUSPECT INTENDED UNSUCCESSFULLY TO KILL THEIR VICTIM.
28
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- SENSATIONAL MURDER
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- A SERIES OR GROUP OF MURDERS THAT AROUSE THE INTEREST OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
29
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- SERIAL MURDER.
- HOW MANY VICTIMS MAKE IT A SERIAL MURDER.
- IN HOW MANY DIFFERENT EVENTS
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- A SEQUENCE OF MURDERS IN WHICH THERE IS A TIME BREAK BETWEEN VICTIMS OF TWO DAYS TO SEVERAL MONTHS.
- SEVERAL VICTIMS.
- THREE OR MORE SEPERATE EVENTS.