CRJU 341 - Exam 1 Flashcards
A board certified ______ who determines the manner of death
Forensic pathologist
The crime scene investigator or tech must be knowledgeable of _____ to enhance the identification and collection of evidence at a crime scene.
Lab capabilities
What are the 4 areas of the process of a crime scene investigation?
Identification, document the scene, collecting evidence, preservation
List 3 components of scene documentation
Photographs, sketching, notes
A first responders main priority at a crime scene is to secure the scene, true or false?
false
Crime scene processing is typically a search protected by the 4th amendment, there are 3 exceptions…
Consent, exigent circumstances, plain view doctrine
Which of the following is not potential evidence?
All listed are potential evidence (drugs, body, etc.)
Forensic scientists examine evidence for one of 2 reasons… What are each of these activities called?
Identification and comparison
Evidence that can be associated with a common score with an extremely high degree of probability has ___ characteristics
Individual
ex. fingerprints
Evidence that can be associated with a group and never a single source has ___ characteristics.
Class
ex. paint, glass
A clinical autopsy is used to determine and confirm the manner of death for cases involving criminal investigation, true or false?
false, they determine COD
What is a contusion?
bruise
Which of the following is an example of evidence containing class characteristics?
Blood type A
Cause of death is the character of the injury that started the chain of events resulting in death whereas manner of death are the circumstances… true or false?
false
___ is the official cause of death terminology… ___ is used to describe an overdose.
Blunt force trauma, substance abuse
The official manner of death terminology when used to describe ___, however when an autopsy is unable to determine the manner of death it is described as a ___
Homicide, undetermined
The petechi present inside the eyelids is an indicator of what type of death?
Asphyxiation
A crime scene investigator responds to an apartment where a deceased is found lying on the floor at 2pm, the csi utilizes a laser thermometer on several parts of the deceased bare skin and gets a body temp of 88.1 degrees, the h-vac thermostat is set to hold at 75 degrees, approximately what time did the descendant expire.
4am
Pooling of the blood to body parts closest to the ground is called…
liver mortis
Stiffening of the body after death is called…
Rigor mortis
Cooling of the body after death is called
Algor mortis
Rigor mortis lasts how long after death?
36 hours
Liver mortis becomes fixed around which hour after death?
16 hours
Bloating and skin discoloration are 2 examples of human decomp, true or false?
true
Law enforcement discovers skeletal remains of what appear to be of human descent, the area of the remains is invested with fly larva, which field is best to determine if the remains are human?
forensic anthropology
