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| The ability to identify a concept or problem, to isolate its component parts, to organize information for decision making, tO establish criteria for evaluation, and to draw appropriate conclusions. |
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| Deriving the consequence from the facts using a series of logical steps. |
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| A person who has seen someone or something and can communicate these facts. |
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| A statement or assertion of information that can be verified. |
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| Relating to the application of scientific knowledge to legal questions. |
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| What a person perceives using his or her senses. |
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| Prsonak belief founded on judgement rather than on direct experience or knowledge. |
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| Interpreting information received from the senses. |
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| The documented and unbroken transfer of evidence. |
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| Svidence used to imply a fact but not prove it directly. |
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| Material that connects an individual or thing to a certain group. |
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| Crime-scene investigation |
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| A multidisciplinary approach in which scientific and legal professionals work together to solve a crime. |
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| Crime-scene reconstruction |
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| A hypothesis of he sequence of events from before the crime was committed through its commission. |
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| Evidence that (if true) proves an alleged fact, such as an eyewitness account of a crime. |
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| The first police officer to arrive at a crime scene. |
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| A kind of evidence that identifies a particular person or thing. |
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| A folded paper used to hold trace evidence. |
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| The location where the crime took place. |
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| A location other than he primary crime scene, but that is in some way related to the crime, where evidence is found. |
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| Small but measurable amounts of physical or biological material found at a crime scene. |
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