Erin Potts CRI 310 Criminal Profiling Policy & Practice

Week #3 Assignment

Professor Wilt July 30, 2012 Defining Terms Page 142 & 164 A priori investigative bias: When investigators/detectives come up with theories that are not uninformed by the facts. Corpus delicti: The facts that show that a crime as taken place Crime scene analysis: Taking the analytical approach that interprets the specific types of a crime scene and related crime scene. Crime scene investigation: the examination and documentation of evidence with the scientific interpretation of results and crime scene reconstruction. Crime scene processing: The transporting of evidence from a crime scene. Equivocal forensic analysis: The questioning of all evidence, assumptions, and conclusions in any given case....