Question- What is an Evidence? Answer- Evidence is anything that can be used to determine whether a crime has been committed.
Question- What are the different types of evidence in a crime scene? Answer- Types of Evidence Used in Forensics
Evidence is divided into numerous categories depending on its characteristics and reliability.
👉 Direct and circumstantial evidence
Direct evidence establishes a fact. Examples of direct evidence are eyewitness statements and confessions.
Circumstantial evidence, requires that a judge and/or jury make an indirect judgment, or inference, about what happened.
👉 Physical versus biological evidence
Forensic evidence can be divided into two basic categories: Physical and Biological.
Physical evidence may take the form of nonliving or inorganic items, such as fingerprints, impressions, tool marks, fibers, paint, glass, drugs, firearms, documents, explosives, etc.
Biological evidence, on the other hand, includes organic things like blood, saliva, urine, semen, hair, and botanical materials, such as wood, plants, pollens,etc.
👉 Reconstructive evidence
Any evidence that helps law enforcement officers better grasp what happened at the crime scene is considered reconstructive evidence.
Broken glass or pried-open doors and windows often reveal a perpetrator’s points of entry and exit, and determining whether a window was broken from the inside or the outside tells which way the perpetrator went through it.