Crime Scene And Investigation

Question 1

Primary crime scene

Answer 1

The original location of the crime scene or accident.

Question 2

Secondary crime scene

Answer 2

Subsequent crime scenes

Question 3

Macroscopic crime scene

Answer 3

The broad crime scene.

Question 4

Microscopic crime scene

Answer 4

The smaller crime scenes in the broad crime scene

Question 5

Types of information that can be obtained from testing and examination of physical evidence.

Answer 5

Linkage of persons, scenes, objects, investigation, information on the corpus delicti, information on the modus operandi, proving or disproving witness statements, identification of the suspect(s), identification of unknown substances, and reconstruction of a crime.

Question 6

Corpus delicti

Answer 6

A crime must have proof to have occurred before a person can be convicted.

Question 7

Modus operandi

Answer 7

Someone’s habits of working; mode of operation.

Question 8

Crime scene management

Answer 8

1. Information management
2. Manpower management
3. Technology management
4. Logistic management

Question 9

First responding officers

Answer 9

The only people to view the crime scene in its most original and pristine condition (ex. Police officers, fire department, and emergency personnel)

Question 10

Crime scene security measures

Answer 10

When the first responders protect the crime scene.

Question 11

Walk through

Answer 11

Preliminary crime survey performed to orient the crime scene investigator to the scene and the physical evidence at the scene.

Question 12

Crime scene map

Answer 12

Use of imaging technology and mapping technology to create virtual layout.

Question 13

The W’s

Answer 13

Who, what, when, where, and why.

Question 14

Videography

Answer 14

Video recording of the crime scene.

Question 15

Time scene sketch

Answer 15

Documented the crime scene in sketches.

Question 16

Geometric patterns

Answer 16

1. link
2. line or strip
3. Grid
4. Zone
5. Wheel or Ray
6. Spiral methods.

Question 17

Types of sketches

Answer 17

Rough and finished sketch.

Question 18

Techniques used to obtain measurements for the crime scene sketch

Answer 18

Triangulation, baseline, and polar coordinates

Question 19

Crime scene reconstruction

Answer 19

Process of determining or eliminating the events that could have occurred at the crime scene.

Question 20

Process in reconstructing a crime scene

Answer 20

1. Data collection
2. Conjecture
3. Hypothesis formulation
4. Testing
5. Theory formulation.

Question 21

Major tasks of documentation

Answer 21

1. Note taking
2. Videography
3. Photography
4. Sketching

Question 22

Coroner

Answer 22

An official who investigates violent, sudden, or suspicious deaths.

Question 23

Medical examiner

Answer 23

A medically qualified public officer whose duty is to investigate deaths occurring under unusual or suspicious circumstances, to preform post mortems, and to initiate inquests.

Question 24

Forensic pathologist

Answer 24

Physicians specializing in the diagnosis of diseases.

Question 25

Cause of death

Answer 25

Disease or injury that initiated the lethal chain of events that led to their death

Question 26

Mechanism of death

Answer 26

Disease or injury that initiated the lethal chain of events that led to their death

Question 27

Manner of death

Answer 27

Defined as the fashion in which the cause of death came to be.

Question 28

NASH

Answer 28

Four manners of death: Natural, accidental, suicidal, and homicidal.

Question 29

Rigor mortis

Answer 29

Stiffening in muscles following death

Question 30

Livid mortis

Answer 30

Discoloration of the body that occurs from settling of red blood cells lucidity becomes fixed, (pressure will not blanch lividity), after about 12 hours it disappears about 36 hours after death.

Question 31

Algor mortis

Answer 31

Cooling of the body that occurs after death, assuming the ambient body temperature is lower than body temperature

Question 32

Sudden death

Answer 32

A death that occurs within a few hours of the onset of symptoms or death without systems

Question 33

Incised wounds

Answer 33

Caused by a clean and sharp-edged object such as a knife, razor, or glass splinter.

Question 34

Autopsy

Answer 34

The examination of a corpse to determine the cause of death.

Question 35

Necropsy

Answer 35

Examination of a body after death.

Question 36

Inframammary incision

Answer 36

Made in the fold where the lower part of the breast meets the chest wall.

Question 37

Types of mechanical trauma

Answer 37

Sharp force and blunt force trauma.

Question 38

Sharp forces

Answer 38

Caused by sharp implements

Question 39

Blunt force trauma

Answer 39

A result from direct contact of a blunt object with a body.

Question 40

Lead snowstorm

Answer 40

White fragments of lead around missing tissue.

Question 41

Penetrating gunshot wound

Answer 41

An entrance would and no exit wound.

Question 42

Perforating gunshot wounds

Answer 42

An entrance and exit wound.

Question 43

Distance determination

Answer 43

Distance from the shooter to the victim.

Question 44

Contact/ near-contact wounds

Answer 44

Result of close range gunfight, suicide, or execution.

Question 45

Carboxy myoglobin

Answer 45

A compound formed from myoglobin on exposure to carbon monoxide.

Question 46

Stippling

Answer 46

The creation of a pattern stimulating varying degrees of solidity or shading by using small dots.

Question 47

Distant

Answer 47

Any distance beyond that which procedures stippling.

Question 48

Abraded

Answer 48

Scraped skin

Question 49

Laceration

Answer 49

A cut or tear in the skin that can be caused by blunt force trauma, stretching, or shearing. Could also be caused by a gunshot wound.

Question 50

Hollow- point bullets

Answer 50

Handgun bullets that are designed to enlarge their diameter during a passage through tissue. They are common.

Question 51

Asphyxia

Answer 51

The interruption of oxygenation of the brain.

Question 52

Carbon monoxide

Answer 52

A colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas that is slightly less dense than air; toxins to hemoglobin animals.

Question 53

Contusion

Answer 53

An accumulation of blood in the tissues outside the blood vessels.

Question 54

Diatoms

Answer 54

Small unicellular organisms found in both fresh and salt water around the world.

Question 55

Equivocal death

Answer 55

Inquiries that are open to interpretation

Question 56

Hematoma

Answer 56

A blood tumor.

Question 57

Hyoid bone

Answer 57

A small hotshot shaped bone found in the neck near the base of the jaw.

Question 58

Hyperthermia

Answer 58

Body temperature above normal range

Question 59

Hypothermia

Answer 59

Body temperature below normal.

Question 60

Ligature

Answer 60

A cord-like object that is used to strangle the victim.

Question 61

Manual strangulation

Answer 61

Use of the hands in strangulation.

Question 62

Naive consumers

Answer 62

A person who doesn’t regularly ingest large amounts of drugs or alcohol.

Question 63

Oxyhemoglobin

Answer 63

The form of hemoglobin that binds and transports oxygen.

Question 64

Questionable death

Answer 64

A death that was not witnessed.

Question 65

Strap muscles

Answer 65

Muscles in the neck.