Exam 2: The Crime Scene

Crime-scene sketches serve a unique purpose in permanently documenting the location of evidence:

The conditions at a crime scene can be compromised by all of the following actions EXCEPT:

Warrantless searches are permitted under law in all of the following situations EXCEPT:

Crime scene ________ must include a detailed written description of the scene with the location of items of physical evidence recovered.

________ evidence is any object that can establish that a crime has been committed or can link a crime and its victim or a crime and its perpetrator.

A victim's fingernail scrapings would be correctly packaged in:

All of the following items may be placed in an airtight container EXCEPT:

Failure to protect a crime scene properly may result in the destruction or altering of evidence.

In digital photography, light is recorded as a specific charge on millions of tiny:

The investigator should not remove trace evidence from items at the crime scene; instead, he or she should send the entire object to the laboratory for processing.

The center of the crime scene, which is always included within the crime scene's boundary, is:

At an arson scene, collecting a substrate control would require the arson investigator to:

The relative evidential value of laboratory test results almost always depends on the way the evidence is collected and presented for examination.

Charred debris from an arson scene should be:

When possible, it is advisable to have two people supervising and coordinating the collection of evidence.

The spread of AIDS and ________ have sensitized the law enforcement community to the potential health hazards that can exist at crime scenes.

The line and spiral search pattern methods can be performed effectively by one person.

If the crime scene includes a dead body, the photographer should:

What is a disadvantage to the spiral search pattern?

The first priority of the first officer responding to a crime scene is securing the crime scene.