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| 683281653 | Ballistics | the science that deals with the motion, behavior, and effects of projectiles, most often firearms and bullets. |  | 0 |
| 683281654 | Odontology | in forensics, examination of bite marks and dental identification of corpses. | 1 | |
| 683281655 | Pathology | investigation of sudden, unexplained, or violent death. | 2 | |
| 683281656 | Entomology | the study of insects. | 3 | |
| 683281657 | Palynology | the study of pollen and spores. | 4 | |
| 683281660 | Polygraphy | the use of the "lie detector". Polygraph = lie detector | 5 | |
| 683281661 | Laceration | Caused by a blunt object |  | 6 |
| 683281662 | Incised wounds | Caused by a sharp object |  | 7 |
| 683281664 | Perforating gunshot wound | Has an entrance and an exit wound | 8 | |
| 683281665 | Penetrating gunshot wound | Does not have an exit wound. | 9 | |
| 683281666 | Mechanism of Death | Biochemical or physiologic abnormality produced by the cause of death that is incompatible with life | 10 | |
| 683281667 | Manner of Death MOD | The fashion in which the cause of death came to be. | 11 | |
| 683281671 | Rigor mortis | Stiffening of the muscles that occurs following the death of a person. The glycogen in the body is not reformed leaving muscles stiff | 12 | |
| 683281675 | Livor Mortis | Discoloration of the body which occurs from te settling of red blood cells after the blood stops circulating. Lividity becomes fixed at 12hrs | 13 | |
| 683281676 | Algor Mortis | Cooling of the body that occurs after death. This obviously varies greatly. | 14 | |
| 683281916 | Mechanical traumas | Can be sharp or blunt. Blunt traumas are further divided into firearm and non-firearm. | 15 | |
| 683281917 | Non-penetrating traumas | Can be sharp or blunt. Blunt traumas are further divided into firearm and non-firearm. | 16 | |
| 683282290 | GSR | Gun shot residue Gun powder leftover from shooting a gun | 17 | |
| 683282341 | DOA | Dead on arrival, Death on Arrival | 18 | |
| 683282392 | Cannabis | marujuana;pot | 19 | |
| 683282393 | Teratogen | an agent that can cause birth defects in an embryo or fetus. two well-known examples are alcohol and thalidomide. | 20 | |
| 683282394 | Alkaloid | Examples are cocaine, nicotine, strychnine, caffenine, and morphine. | 21 | |
| 683282395 | Analgesics | drugs that relieve pain. | 22 | |
| 683282396 | Presumptive Test | test that presumes the presence of the questioned substanced; also called a screening test. | 23 | |
| 683282398 | Osteons | structures in bones that carry the blood supply. | 24 | |
| 683282400 | Femur | long bone found in the leg extending from the hip to the knee. |  | 25 |
| 683282402 | Tibia | long bone found in the leg extending from the knee to the ankle. |  | 26 |
| 683282404 | Humerus | long bone found in the arm extending from the shoulder to the elbow. upper arm |  | 27 |
| 683282405 | Radius | long bone found in the arm extending from the elbow to the wrist. |  | 28 |
| 683282406 | Os Pubis | area on the anterior side of the pelvis where the hip bones come together. | 29 | |
| 683282407 | Ventral Arc | a bony ridge that is formed on the ventral (lower) side of the female os pubis. | 30 | |
| 683282408 | Epiphyses | growth plates found at the ends of the long bones. they form in adolescence and fuse to the bone during early adulthood. | 31 | |
| 683282409 | Diaphysis | the shaft of a long bone. | 32 | |
| 683282426 | Iliac Crest | found on the top of the hip bone. | 33 | |
| 683282427 | Clavicle | also known as the collarbone; its medial ends meet in the center of the body. | 34 | |
| 683282430 | Sutures | immovable joints where bonesare joined together. they are visible as seams on the surface. | 35 | |
| 683282431 | Symphysis | a place where two bones meet and may rub together. | 36 | |
| 683282432 | Caucasoid | descriptor for people of European, Middle Eastern, and East Indian descent. | 37 | |
| 683282433 | Negroid | descriptor for people of African, Aborigine, and Melanesian descent. | 38 | |
| 683282434 | Monogoloid | descriptor for people of Asian, Native American, Polynesian descent. | 39 | |
| 683282435 | Modus Operandi (MO) | the characteristic method of operation of a criminal; sometimes referred to as MO. | 40 | |
| 683282436 | Statutory Law | legislative acts declaring, commanding, or prohibiting something. | 41 | |
| 683282437 | Common Law or Case Law | Type of law that is formulated by judges or determined by court decisions. | 42 | |
| 683282438 | Civil Law | A law that governs relationships between individuals and defines their legal rights. | 43 | |
| 683282444 | Criminal Law | Codes of behavior related to the protection of property and individual safety | 44 | |
| 683282447 | Misdemeanor | a minor crime, less than a felony, usually punished with a fine or confinement other than in a prison. | 45 | |
| 683282448 | Felony | a serious crime, such as murder, punishable by more than one year of imprisonment up to excution. | 46 | |
| 683282449 | What is the two-pronged test that foresic pathologists use? | First, is the death sudden. Second, was the death expected.(i.e. if person had been diagnosed with cardiovascular disease then death would have been expected even if sudden. | 47 | |
| 683282450 | What two methods to pathologist use to obtain DNA from victim for future DNA analysis? | A drop of blood or a hair with the blub still attached | 48 | |
| 683282451 | What are the three major subgroupings of forensic psychiatry? | Criminal forensic psychiatry, civil forensic psychiatry, administrative forensic psychiatry. | 49 | |
| 683282452 | Dactyloscopy | the study of fingerprints. the word is drived from the Greek daktulos, meaning finger. | 50 | |
| 683282454 | Anthropometry | the study of human body measurements. the word is derived from the Greek anthropos, meaning man. | 51 | |
| 683282455 | Loop | fingerprint pattern with one or more ridges entering from one side, curving, then going out on the same side entered. |  | 52 |
| 683282457 | Delta | triangular area found in all loop and whorl patterns | 53 | |
| 683282458 | Core | area found near the center of all loop and whorl patterns. | 54 | |
| 683282459 | Whorl | fingerprint pattern with at least two deltas and a core. | 55 | |
| 683282460 | Arch | least common and simpliest fingerprint pattern. they have no delta or core. all ridges enter one side and exit the other. | 56 | |
| 683282467 | Visible Print | fingerprint left by a finger that has touched blood, paint, ink, or the like. |  | 57 |
| 683282470 | Latent Print | fingerprint made by the deposit of perspiration or body oils; invisible to the naked eye until developed. |  | 58 |
| 683282471 | Minutiae | in description of fingerprints, ridge characteristics. | 59 | |
| 683282475 | Bifurcations | common minutiae, shaped like a two-pronged fork. | 60 | |
| 683282476 | Locard Exchange Principle | there is always a cross transfer of evidence between suspect and victim or locale. | 61 | |
| 683282477 | Cuticle (Hair) | tough, clear outside covering of the hair shaft. | 62 | |
| 683282478 | Cortex (Hair) | middle layer of the hair shaft that provides strength; compromises most of the hair mass. | 63 | |
| 683282479 | Medulla (Hair) | the spongy anterior core of hair that gives it flexibilty; appears as a canal in the middle of the shaft. | 64 | |
| 683282485 | Keratin | A fiber protein that is the principal component of hair, skin, and nails is | 65 | |
| 683282486 | False Positive | a test result that comes out positive when it should not; often caused by comtamination or failure to run a control. | 66 | |
| 683282487 | Catalyst | a small amount of a substance that increases the rate of a reaction without being used up in the process. | 67 | |
| 683282488 | Viscosity | the resistance of a fluid to flow. water is low relative to syrup. heating generally lowers this of a liquid. | 68 | |
| 683282489 | Homopolymers | polymers made up of one type of repeating unit. each is made from one monomer only. | 69 | |
| 683282490 | Polyethers | a series of carbon atoms connected by oxygen atoms. | 70 | |
| 683282492 | Chromatography | A technique that is used to separate the components of a mixture based on the tendency of each component to travel or be drawn across the surface of another material. | 71 | |
| 683282493 | Elute | to extract one material from another, usually by means of a solvent. | 72 | |
| 683282494 | Designer Drug | drugs synthesized with particular pharmacological characteristics, designed for abuse and evasion of specific drug laws. | 73 | |
| 683282497 | Cheliloscopy | the study of lip prints, from the Greek word cheilos, meaning lip. | 74 | |
| 683282498 | Conchoidal Fracture | A curved fracture surface; looks like the inside of a clam shell | 75 | |
| 683282499 | Hemoglobin | the oxygen carrier that gives red blood cells their color. it is composed of four globen (protein) chains, each with heme group. | 76 | |
| 683282500 | Precipitin Test | test that distingushes between human and animal blood | 77 | |
| 683282501 | Chemiluminescence | the emmission of light from a chemical reaction. within an organism such as a firefly. it is called bioluminescence. | 78 | |
| 683282502 | Antigens | foreign substances in the body that are capable of causing disease. the presence of antigens triggers an immune response, usually the production of antibodies. | 79 | |
| 683282504 | Agglutinate | an allergic reaction where red blood cells clump together, usually in response to a particular antibody. | 80 | |
| 683282505 | Serology | the laboratory study of body fluids using specific antigen and serum antibody reactions. | 81 | |
| 683282506 | Erythrocytes | red blood cells. | 82 | |
| 683282507 | Leukocytes | White Blood Cells | 83 | |
| 683282509 | ABO | a basic classification system for blood types based upon the reaction of antigens and antibodies. | 84 | |
| 683282511 | Taxonomy | the classification ont things in an orderly way that indicates natural relationships. | 85 | |
| 683282512 | Carrion | the carcass of a dead and decaying animal. | 86 | |
| 683282513 | Postmortem Interval (PMI) | the time elapsed since a person has died. | 87 | |
| 683282536 | Caliber | A measure of the inside diameter of a firearm barrel | 88 | |
| 683282541 | Bore | the interior diameter of a gun barrel. | 89 | |
| 683282565 | Gauge | A measure related to the diameter of the bore and the size of the shotshell designed for that bore | 90 | |
| 683282571 | Shot | lead spheres in a shotgun shell. | 91 | |
| 683282575 | Slug | a single shot or bullet in a shotgun shell. | 92 | |
| 683283117 | Striae | parallel sets of scratches on a bullet caused by unique markings in the bore of a rifled weapon. | 93 | |
| 683283118 | Head Stamp | numerals, letters, and symbols on the base of a cartridge showing the manufacturer, caliber, and code. | 94 | |
| 683283119 | Breech | portion of the gun that contains the firing mechanism. | 95 | |
| 683283122 | Magazine | a container that holds cartridges under spring pressure to be fed into the gun's chamber; also called a clip. | 96 | |
| 683283123 | Chamber | part of the firearm that contains a cartridge for firing. | 97 | |
| 683283124 | Blind Forgery | one made without a model of this signnature or writing being forged. | 98 | |
| 683283128 | Forgery | an item prepared with the intent to deceive or defraud. it can be an autograph, a book, a painting, a baseball card, a stamp, an antique, or almost anything. | 99 | |
| 683283129 | Simulated Forgery | one made by copying a genuine signature. | 100 | |
| 683283130 | Traced Forgery | one made by tracing a genuine signature. | 101 | |
| 683283131 | Indented Writing | impressions left under paper that has been written on. | 102 | |
| 683283133 | When were psychologists recognized in court? | Jenkins v United States 1962 | 103 | |
| 683283135 | Name the 4 roles of a forensic psychologists. | 1. Research: investigate legal processes and phenomena 2. Intervention (aka treatment or therapy) 3. Assessment: psychological appraisal 4. Consultation: provide information to agencies including police departments judges, attorneys and jail staff | 104 | |
| 683283137 | What is the most prevalent area of forensic psychology research? | Eyewitness testimony | 105 | |
| 683283158 | Confession. | Admission of guilt • Most damaging piece of evidence in a trial | 106 | |
| 683283159 | False confession. | Admission of guilt by an innocent person | 107 | |
| 683283160 | Name the 3 primary reasons for a false confession. | 1. Publicity 2. To end punishment 3. Highly suggestible and stressed | 108 | |
| 683283162 | Name 2 main roles of a forensic psychologist in assessment. | 1. Involves test administration 2. Testify as expert witness | 109 | |
| 683283163 | What are the 3 primary states when testifying as an expert witness? | 1. Dangerousness: likelihood to cause emotional or physical harm 2. Competency: ability to understand nature and purpose of court proceedings 3. Insanity: legal term for unsoundness of mind such that nature of a (criminal) act was not perceived to be wrong | 110 | |
| 683283164 | What are the 4 areas of dangerousness? | 1. Violence 2. Suicide 3. Child and domestic abuse 4. Sexual abuse | 111 | |
| 683283165 | Name 2 way to be considered for insanity. | 1. Cannot distinguish fantasy from reality 2. Subject to uncontrollable impulsive behavior | 112 | |
| 683283166 | Name 2 possible verdicts if one is found insane. | 1. Not guilty by reason of insanity 2. Not guilty by reason of temporary insanity | 113 | |
| 683283167 | Signature | Unique manner in which a person commits crime to emotionally fulfill himself | 114 | |
| 683283168 | Who was the Vampire of Sacramento? Give some background information. | • Richard Trenton Chase • Unemployed, white male, 27 years old • Lived alone, 1 block from killings • Found body parts and bloodstained blender, calendar with more dates | 115 | |
| 683283169 | What is Algor mortis? Time Frame | Definiton:Decrease in body temperature after death Time:Body cools at a rate of 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit per hour for the first 12 hours then 1 degree Fahrenheit per hour for the next 12 to 18 hours | 116 | |
| 683283170 | What is Livor Mortis? Time Frame? | Definition:Purple/red discoloration in the dependent areas of the body due to accumulation of blood after cardiac activity has ceased Time:Begins between 30 minutes to 2 hours after death Usually "fixed" by 8 to 12 hours after death | 117 | |
| 683283171 | What are the specific types of lividity and what causes them? | Cherry red lividity: carbon monoxide poisoning, cyanide poisoning and cold temperatures ~Minimal lividity: hypovolemic shock or anemia | 118 | |
| 683283192 | What was the first published account involving a convition based on bite marks as evidence. | Doyle v. State; Texas, 1954 | 119 |
