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Forensics: Unit 2 Evidence Review Guide
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Vocabulary: Highlight in your notes or rewrite on a separate sheet/notecards.
Locard’s exchange
Expert witness
Individual evidence
principle
Eyewitness
Class evidence
Federal rules of
Physical evidence
Corpus delicti
evidence
Indirect evidence
evidence
Probative
Circumstantial
Trace evidence
Material
evidence
Associative evidence
Frye standard
Unknown sample
Relevant evidence
Daubert ruling
evidence
Exclusionary evidence
Testimonial evidence
Known sample
Direct evidence
evidence
People:
Coral Eugene Watts
Ronald Cotton
Helle & Richard Crafts
Careers in Forensics: (See #7 for what you will need to know about each career.)
Forensic accountant
Forensic chemist
Forensic photographer
Forensic nurse
Toxicologist
Coroner/Medical
Molecular biologist
Forensic artist
examiner
Forensic odontologist
Polygraph technician
Blood spatter analyst
Forensic entomologist
Fingerprint analyst
Forensic botanist
Forensic archeologist
Document examiner
Fire marshal
Forensic
computer
tech.
Forensic anthropologist
Detective
Forensic engineer
Psychiatrist/psychologist
Crime scene investigator
Concepts: Use full sentences where appropriate.
1. a. Define Locard’s “Exchange Principle.” b. Why is this principle so important to
the field of forensics?
2. Contrast the different types of evidence. (Explain how each type of evidence is
different from the other.)
a. Testimonial vs. Physical evidence
b. Circumstantial vs. individual evidence
c. Individual vs. class evidence
d. direct vs. indirect evidence
e. probative vs. material
3. Explain what the Federal Rules of Evidence including the Frye standard and the
Daubert rulings.
4. Compare and contrast the difference in reliability of:
a. Eyewitness evidence versus physical evidence
b. class evidence versus individual evidence
5. Outline the factors that help make an eyewitness reliable.
6. A bank has been robbed. The robber has left fingerprints, hairs, fibers and
shoeprints at the scene of the crime. Later that day, the suspected robber is
arrested wearing the same clothing and shoes as seen in the surveillance video
from the robbery. Based on this robbery, identify 2 pieces of unknown evidence
and 2 pieces of known evidence.
Known evidence:
1.
2.
Unknown evidence:
1.
2.
7. Review your notes on your classmate’s careers. Make sure you can describe
what kinds of evidence that each one examines and testifies about.