Crime Scene Reconstruction Lecture

These flashcards cover key terms and concepts related to crime scene reconstruction, forensic analysis, and bloodstain pattern analysis.

Crime Scene Reconstruction

Advanced crime scene investigation to determine how a crime was committed and the sequence of events.

Locard's Exchange Principle

A principle stating that the perpetrator of a crime will often bring something into the crime scene and leave with something from it, indicating the interrelation of criminal evidence.

Bloodstain Pattern Analysis (BPA)

A specialty field that requires extensive training and experience to interpret bloodstains and recreate the mechanisms that produced them.

Swipe

A bloodstain resulting from the transfer of blood from a blood-bearing surface onto another surface, showing relative motion.

Wipe

An altered bloodstain pattern resulting from an object moving through preexisting wet bloodstain.

Parent Stain

The bloodstain from which a satellite stain originated.

Satellite Stain

A smaller bloodstain that originated during the formation of the parent stain as a result of blood impacting a surface.

Forensic Shooting Reconstruction

The analysis of shooting incidents, including trajectory and ballistics considerations, to understand the events of the crime.

Angle of Impact

The angle at which a blood droplet strikes a surface, affecting the shape and direction of the bloodstain.

Accident Reconstruction

The process of investigating and analyzing vehicle fatalities, structural failures, and other accidents to determine sequences of events.