Untitled Flashcards Set

Unit 1:

Introduction (Ch. 1)

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1. What are the 3 levels of crime?

2. What are the different levels of homicide? Give an example of each.

3. What are the different types of robbery?

4. What are the different types of assault?

5. Describe the difference between Qualitative and Quantitative facts.

6. How is a Fact different from an Inference?

Processing the Scene (Ch. 2)

1. What is Locard’s Exchange Principle?

2. What is a chain of custody?

3. What are the 2 areas of a crime scene? Give examples of each.

4. What are the 3 main methods to record a crime scene?

5. What are the 5 steps when processing a crime scene?

Physical Evidence (Ch. 3)

1. Explain Individual evidence and provide an example.

2. Explain Class evidence and provide an example.

Unit 2:

Fingerprints (Ch. 6)

1. What are the 3 fundamental principles of fingerprints?

2. Define a loop pattern and be able to identify it.

3. List the 4 main types of whorls; define a whorl

4. List the 2 types of arches; define an arch

5. Explain primary classification and how to calculate it.

6. Describe when and why you would use dusting powder, superglue, and iodine to examine latent prints.

7. Explain what a ridge characteristic is and be able to identify ridge endings, dots, enclosures, bifurcations, bridges, spurs, and short ridges.

8. What are the differences between patent, latent, and plastic prints.

Unit 3:

Hair (Ch. 11)

1. Draw/Diagram the 3 layers of hair?

2. What types of cuticles do humans typically have? Animals?

3. What can the cortex show?

4. What are the 4 types of medullas?

5. What is the medullary index? 

6. How is the medullary index calculated? 

7. How is medullary index different in animals vs humans?

Fiber (Ch. 11)

1. Give several examples of natural and synthetic fibers.

2. Compare natural and synthetic fibers for filament count, flame test, and water retention.

Unit 4:

Impressions (Ch. 15)

1. What are the class and individual characteristics of impressions?

2. Provide several types of impressions potentially found at a crime scene.

3. Explain how one would try to match an impression to a standard reference.

4. How are shoes forensically analyzed?

Unit 5:

Questioned Documents (Ch. 18)

1. Identify the 12 points of handwriting examination.

2. Explain why the handwriting of 2 individuals can never be identical.

3. What is the difference between requested and collected handwriting samples?

4. How is paper analyzed?

5. Explain how to use Rf to compare the ink used in a questioned document to a suspect’s pen.