Title: Test review Game
1Test review Game
2What is the name of the database the keeps track
of fingerprints?
3IAFIS
- Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification
System
4Determine the number type of tests needed to
identify a substance be sufficient to exclude all
other substances is which step in the process of
identification?
5Second
6Name two types of criminal investigation cases
that commonly use crime reconstruction
7(any 2 of the following)
- a body was moved after death
- determining whether a victim was clothed after
death - analyzing bullet trajectory
- analyzing blood spatter
- determining the direction from which projectiles
penetrated glass objects - estimating the distance of a shooter from a
target - locating primer residue on suspects
8What must you have in order to appropriately and
scientifically analyze evidence?
9standard reference sample
10What do we call a formula for determining how
frequently a certain combination of
characteristics occurs in a population, which
states that one must first determine the
probability of each characteristic occurring
separately, then multiply together the
frequencies of all independently occurring
characteristics?
11product rule
12What do we call it when evidence can be
associated only with a group and never with a
single source?
13class evidence
14What in current society makes it increasingly
difficult to link evidence to individuals?
15mass production
16Plastic, rubber, and polymers are examples of
what?
17physical evidence
18Each type of _____________requires different
tests and different degrees of specificity. Some
can be proven with 1 test while others may take 6
tests to positively identify.
19evidence
20The process of determining a substances physical
or chemical make-up with as near absolute
certainty as existing analytical techniques will
permit.
21identification
22Evidence that can be associated with a common
source with an extremely high degree of
probability has _____________characteristics.
23individual
24When presenting a case in court, more experience
_____________.
25stronger reliability
26What do we call it when evidence can be
associated only with a group and never with a
single source?
27class evidence
28The chance of finding which type of physical
evidence is much lower?
29individual characteristic
30A person may be __________________ from suspicion
if physical evidence collected at a crime scene
is found to be different from standard/reference
samples collected from that subject.
31exonerated
32Which database is two sided and stores material
from unsolved cases as well as known criminals?
33CODIS
34Who maintains the fingerprint database?
35 FBI
36Combinations of select properties are chosen from
the suspect the standard reference sample for
comparison. What must be the overriding
consideration in doing so?
37evidential value in court