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Validity refers to:

Police may use a variety of evidence ploys during interrogation. This is possible because:

Pierre has received a piece of pizza crust with DNA evidence from the crime scene, to analyze and compare it with the CODIS database for possible matches. However, because the piece of pizza crust was mistakenly stored in a plastic bag instead of a paper bag before it got to the lab, the DNA evidence has deteriorated and now yields ambiguous results. Now _____ make a judgment on whether there is a match.

The _____ shows a video image of the brain in action.

The characteristics of serial killers seem to have _____ though there are _____ common to all serial killers.

Research has essentially discredited the idea at the heart of the profiling process: that _____ crimes are committed by _____ people.

A basic assumption of profiling is that particular crime scene characteristics are associated with specific _____. Research has _____ this assumption.

A false positive means that a(n):

In forensic identification, it is crucial to know whether a specific technique, for example, hair analysis, can actually measure if one hair matches another one. If the technique doesn’t do a good job, it means it has:

One reason why adult hearsay witness testimony may be perceived differently from that of a child, is that: