Glossary
A
- ammunition
- - bullets or shells used in firearms
- anthropologist
- - a scientist who studies bones
- authorities
- - the police, attorneys and other law officials
- autopsies
- - exams of the bodies of dead persons or animals
C
- cross contamination
- - to move, mix, or transfer blood, germs, or fingerprints from one piece of evidence to another
D
- DNA
- - deoxyribonucleic acid - the part of a cell that holds details specific to each person or animal
E
- evidence
- - things left at a crime scene on purpose or accidently
F
- footprint
- - mark left by a foot in mud, soil or sand
- forensics
- - Latin for public - or related to law
- forgery
- - signing someone else's name illegally
- fraud
- - a fake or trick method of obtaining money
I
- intention
- - on purpose or with a plan
- investigator
- - a person who looks into the details of a crime
K
- kidnapping
- - to forcefully take a person as a hostage
P
- physical evidence
- - evidence that can be seen or measured
- poaching
- - killing animals illegally
- prevention
- - to stop something before it happens
- professional
- - a person who works in a career
- psychiatrist
- - a doctor of the mind
S
- splatter
- - the pattern a liquid makes when it splashes
T
- toxicologist
- - a scientist who studies dangerous poisons
V
- victim
- - someone who has suffered a crime
W
- witness
- - a person who has seen a crime
