What are individual characteristics? What do they establish? What are class characteristics?

What are some ways footwear and tire prints impressions can be preserved?

What are three broad categories of latent fingerprints?

What affects the quality of latent finger prints?

What are some emthods of deveolpign altent finger prints? Where may teeth marks be left? How can bite makes be used in an investigation?

How can dental records be used in investigations? What answers can firearms evidence lab examinations solve? What happens when a bullet pass through the barrel of a weapon? How can these marks be used? What are the 3 types of forgery?

What are some techniques for identifying questioned documents? When the characteristics of physical evidence are common to a group of objects or persons, they may be termed ____________. Evidence such as_______________ is known to originate with a particular person or source. What are some guidelines in handling soil evidence?

How are footwear prints formed? Tire ________ occur when the tire treads are recorded in some moldable material such as earth, clay, or snow.

How can paint evidence be used in hit and run cases? hat is the first step for an investigator attempting to preserve glass evidence from a window in a structure? A _______________ is a replica of the friction ridges that touched the surface on which paint was found. ______________ are created when fingers touch against some material such as a newly painted surface.

What may affect latent finger prints? __________ can speed up the process of fingerprint identification and comparison. ______________ is a process that relates dental evidence to investigations. The forensic dentist compares ____________ with postmortem records to determine if there is a positive match. What records are needed from the suspect for bite-mark comparison? Which accepted method is the easiest by which records from the suspect for bite-mark comparison may be obtained?

What conclusions can be established from hair evidence? What procedures occur first when collecting blood from a known source? Why are firearms evidence important?

Identified as having originated with a particular person or source *individuality (finger prints/footprints Physical evidence that is common to a group. (black person's hair) Photgraphed, Also making cast of impression *plastic Prints-fingers touch ie. Putty *Contaminated/visible prints-created by ink, or blood print *latent/invisible prints -left from body oil *surface deposited *nature of material(ink/blood) contaminating fingerprint *How object w/ print is handled *amount of fingerprint/cotamination *powders *Fluorescent podwers *chemicals *superglue fuming *visulations under-laser, light, ultraviolet Food, pencils etc. Help eliminate or identify suspects *indentify unknown persons *victims or reported missing (whose the dead person found in the river) *if bullet was fired from particular weapon * *Distinctive scratches are caused *Can be compared to firearms in questions or NIBIN database *traced forgery *simulated forgery *freehand forgery *photcopier examination *paper examination *age of documents *burned or charred paper *altered or olbiterated writing *writing instruments * mechanical impressions * typewriting

Class Individual characteristics *Gather soil quickly *collect from logical points of access to and escape routes They are formed when soles are contaminated with some foreign matter such as blood or dust that leaves a print on a firm base.

Impressions

In hit and run cases, paint evidence may be able to identify the make and model of the missing vehicle from reference files on original manufacturer finishes maintained by the FBI.

Photograph it in detail. fingerprint

Plastic Prints * The surface on which the print is deposited. *Toilet handles *The nature of the material contaminating the fingerprint. * AFIS-Automated fingerprint identification systems significantly decrease necessary processing time. Forensic Dentistry

Antemortem *Photographs of teeth * X-rays *Saliva

Voluntary consent *area of the body from which the hair came *manner in which the hair was removed. *hair was bleached or dyed * Determine if drug or alcohol testing is to be done. Laboratory examination may provide evidence that a bullet was fired from a particular weapon.