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Forensics Ch. 3

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hair, blood, dirt, fingerprints, paint, glass, weapons, wounds, clothes, tire tread   ten examples of common types of physical evidence  
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determines the physical or chemical identity of a substance with as near absolute certainty as possible   purpose of identification  
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drugs and explosives   two types of evidence that will be identified  
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determines whether 2 or more objects have a common origin   comparison analysis  
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a standard/reference sample   what is required for a comparison?  
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as probability   how are results of a comparison analysis reported?  
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properties of evidence that can be attributed to a common source with an extremely high degree of certainty   individual characteristics  
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fingerprints, 7-layered paint   two examples of individual characteristics  
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properties of evidence that can only be associated with a group and never with a single source   class characteristics  
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tire tread, blood type   two examples of class characteristics  
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multiplying together the frequencies of independently occurring genetic markers to obtain an overall frequency of occurrence for a genetic profile   product rule  
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jury   who decides the significance of physical evidence in a trial  
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record of everything that happened to the evidence from the moment it is discovered until it arrives in court or is destroyed   chain of custody  
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helps make sure you don't lose/damage evidence and allows you to use it in court   why is chain of custody relevant?  
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recognition, identification, comparison, individualization, reconstruction   stages in analysis of physical evidence  
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can be used to match a victim to a suspect or a suspect to a crime   forensic database  
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AFIS   fingerprint database  
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CODIS   DNA database  
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IBIS   alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and explosives database  
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profiles of convicted/arrested   offender  
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unsolved crime scene   forensic indexes  
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build a new model of crime scene to decide how crime took place   crime scene reconstruction  
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blood spatter patterns, bullet trajectories, penetrated glass, residues   useful techniques to aid criminalists in crime scene reconstruction  
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securing/protecting the scene   what is the first and most important step in crime scene reconstruction?  
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PDQ because you can't always know exactly where paint came from   which of the forensic databases contain information that relates primarily to evidence exhibiting class characteristics?  
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CODIS because DNA can give a perfect match   which forensic databases contain information that relates primarily to exhibiting individual characteristics?  
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paint, DNA, Ted Bundey   Gary Ridgeway  
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parts of chipped body   Richard Craft  
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