Forensic terms beginning with C
538 terms
- C-4
- C-S-H gel
- C2PA
- C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity)
- C30 17alpha-hopane
- CAATs
- Cadaver decomposition island (CDI)
- Cadaver dog
- Cadaveric decomposition island (CDI)
- Cadaveric spasm
- Cafcass section-7 report
- Cairns checklist
- Cal Fire (California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection)
- Cal Fire Law Enforcement and Investigations Division
- Calcification stage
- Calcification temperature threshold
- Calcination
- Calcined bone
- Calcium silicate hydrate (C-S-H)
- Calcium sulphate hemihydrate
- Calibration
- Calibration curve
- Calibration cycle
- Calliphoridae
- Callus
- Camera calibration
- Camera flicker / optical ENF
- Camera noise model
- Camera-trap AI
- Cameriere method (2007)
- Campbell Danger Assessment (DA)
- Candidate match
- Canine
- Can't let go threshold
- Capacity
- Capillary column
- Capillary electrophoresis
- Capillary electrophoresis (CE)
- Capital expenditure (capex)
- Capitate-sessile trichome
- Capitate-stalked trichome
- Carabelli trait
- Carbamate
- Carbofuran
- Carbon black
- Carbon disulfide (CS2)
- Carbon-film ribbon
- Carbon-tape stub (Tri-Mark)
- Carbonation depth
- Carbonation front
- Carbonation-induced corrosion
- Carboxyhaemoglobin (COHb)
- Carcass dump
- Cardiac glycoside
- Carfentanil
- Carnassial teeth
- Carnivore gnaw marks
- Carotid artery dissection
- Carrier (cover object)
- Carrier gas
- Carrion community
- Carrion succession
- Cartridge
- Cartridge case markings
- Caryopsis
- Casework peer review
- Cash larceny
- Cast-off
- Categorical identification
- Category A method
- Category B method
- Cathinone
- Caucasoid / Mongoloid / Negroid
- Cauchy equation
- Cause of death
- Cause versus contributing factor
- CBD (cannabidiol)
- CBGA (cannabigerolic acid)
- CBN (cannabinol)
- CCD (Charge-Coupled Device)
- CCMB LaCONES
- CCTNS
- CDFD
- CDFD (Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics)
- CDR
- CDR tool
- CDSCO
- CEDAR-FOX
- CEDAR study (Srihari 2002)
- Cell-free DNA (cfDNA)
- Cellebrite UFED
- Cellular death
- Cementum
- Cementum annulation
- Centimorgans (cM)
- Centrifugal spiral
- Centripetal spiral
- Centrolobular necrosis
- Cephos Corporation
- Ceramic fabric
- Ceratotrichia
- Cerbera odollam
- CERT-In
- CERT-In Direction April 2022
- Certified reference material (CRM)
- CFA (Colour Filter Array)
- CFA phase
- CFAST
- CFE (Certified Fraud Examiner)
- CFF (Certified in Financial Forensics)
- CFSL
- CFSL (Central Forensic Science Laboratory)
- CFSL Hyderabad explosives wing
- Chain of custody
- Chain of custody (CoC)
- Chain of custody (digital)
- Chamber pressure
- Champod minutia frequency study
- Change-address heuristic
- Change detection
- Channel programme
- Channel programme (UK)
- Channel stuffing
- Channelopathy
- Chaotropic salt
- Chapman-Jouguet (CJ) condition
- Chapman-Jouguet pressure
- Chapman-Jouguet velocity
- Char depth
- Char depth gradient
- Char-depth probe
- Character inventory
- Characteristic GSR particle (ASTM E1588-20)
- Characteristic particle
- Characteristic X-ray
- Characteristic X-rays
- Charas
- Charge sheet (Section 193)
- Charred document
- Charring
- Charting convention
- Check-digit algorithm
- Check washing
- Cheetham 2005 framework
- Cheiloscopy
- Chelation therapy
- Chelex-100
- Chemical erasure
- Chemical shift (delta)
- Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)
- Chemiluminescence
- Cherry-pink lividity
- Cherry-red livor mortis
- Chi-square test
- Child Advocacy Centre (CAC)
- Children's Firesetting Interview (CFI)
- Chip-off
- Chipset (PCH)
- Chirality
- Chirasil-DEX CB
- Chironomidae
- Chloroplast genome (plastome)
- Chloroplast microsatellite (cpSSR)
- Choke (shotgun)
- Cholinesterase inhibition
- Chondrite normalisation
- Chop wound
- Christmas tree staining
- Chroma
- Chromatic aberration
- Chromogenic pad
- Chromophore
- Chromosome
- Chromotropic acid test
- Chronological age
- CIAN
- CID and HCD
- CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing)
- CIP
- Circle hypothesis
- Circumferential groove
- CITES
- CITES Appendices I/II/III
- CITES Appendix I
- CITES Appendix II
- CITES leather guide
- CITES trade database
- Civil forfeiture
- Civil wrong (tort)
- CJA 2009 § 52
- CLAHE
- Class A (MDA 1971)
- Class characteristic
- Class characteristics
- Class characteristics (footwear)
- Class vs individual evidence
- Clawback
- Clawback (avoidance action)
- Clay mineral
- Clear Ballistics (Permagel)
- Clearcoat
- Clearview AI
- Cleavage
- Cleckley's sixteen criteria
- Cleistanthus collinus
- Cleridae
- CLI spoofing
- Clinal variation
- Clinical (academic) autopsy
- Clinical Forensic Psychology
- Clinical independence
- Clinker
- C_llr (log-likelihood ratio cost)
- Closed-corpus trap
- Closed-set attribution
- CLOUD Act 2018
- CloudTrail
- CMC (Congruent Matching Cells)
- CMO design
- CMOS battery
- CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor)
- CNN residual detector
- Co-oximetry
- Co-spend heuristic
- Coagulative necrosis
- CoAP
- Cobalt thiocyanate
- Cockling
- Cockpit voice recorder (CVR)
- Code of conduct
- Code-switching
- Codec
- Codex Alimentarius
- CODIS
- CODIS (Combined DNA Index System)
- Coefficient of friction (mu)
- Coefficient of kinetic friction (mu)
- Coefficient of restitution (e)
- Coercive control
- Cognitive demand
- Cognitive interview
- Cognitive Interview (CI)
- Cognitive load
- COI barcoding
- COI (COX1)
- COI (cytochrome c oxidase I)
- COI (cytochrome c oxidase subunit I)
- Cold-boot attack
- Cold-case hit
- Cold filament failure
- Cold-working stress field
- Collagen peptide barcoding
- Collapse mechanism
- Collateral source
- Collision and reaction cell (CRC)
- COLMAP
- Colonisation
- Colonisation interval
- Colonisation wave
- Colour calibration
- Colour checker
- Colour space
- Colour spot test
- Colposcope
- Colposcopy
- Colpus (pl. colpi)
- Column tributary area
- Coma
- Combination mark
- Combined paternity index (CPI)
- Combustible gas indicator (CGI)
- Command-initiated switch
- Commercial feasibility
- Commercial pyrotechnic powder
- Commercial quantity (NDPS)
- Commingled remains
- Commodity substitution
- Common approach path (CAP)
- Community state type (CST)
- Community Treatment Order (CTO)
- Commuter
- Comparable text
- Comparative mineralogy
- Comparative radiography
- Comparison (control) sample
- Comparison corpus
- Comparison corpus (deceased subject)
- Comparison microscope
- Comparison microscopy
- Comparison phase
- Comparison sample
- Competitive vs non-competitive format
- Complete hanging
- Completely Denatured Alcohol (CDA)
- Compliant false confession
- Composition B (Comp B)
- Compound-specific IRMS (CSIA)
- Comprehension assessment
- Compression equilibrium
- Computer forensics
- Concealed Information Test (CIT)
- Concentric crack
- Concentric cracks
- Concentric fracture
- Conclusion language
- Conclusion scale
- Concordance
- Concordance criterion
- Concordant feature
- Concurrent evidence
- Concurrent evidence (hot-tubbing)
- Conditional evidence
- Conditional threat
- Conductive heat transfer
- Cone beam CT (CBCT)
- Cone fracture
- Cone penetration test (CPT)
- Confession as discovery trigger
- Confidence interval
- Confidence ranking
- Confidential informant intelligence
- Confirmation bias
- Confirmatory evidence
- Confirmatory technique
- Confirmatory test
- Confiscation order
- Conflict mineral
- Conflict of interest
- Conflict wildlife
- Confocal microscopy
- Conforming unit
- Conformity assessment
- Confounder
- Confusion and diffusion
- Congener fingerprinting
- Congruent Matching Cells (CMC)
- Conoscopic illumination
- Consecutive interpretation
- Consecutive matching striae (CMS)
- Consent
- Consent imbalance
- Consequential validity
- Conservation of momentum
- Consistent particle
- Consistent with
- Consolidant
- Conspicuity
- Constant-time crypto
- Constriction
- Consumer country
- Consumer Expectation Test
- Contact shot
- Contact stellate wound
- Contact wound
- Container format
- Contamination
- Contemporaneity
- Contemporaneous Documentation
- Contemporaneous record
- Content-aware fill
- Content Credentials
- Context
- Context bias
- Context number
- Context plan
- Context sheet
- Contextual bias
- Contextual cognitive bias
- Contingency Fee Prohibition
- Contingent liability
- Continuity
- Continuity of evidence
- Continuity sample
- Continuity witness
- Continuous authentication
- Continuous (Bremsstrahlung) radiation
- Continuous model
- Control band (C line)
- Control chart
- Control environment
- Control-plane log
- Control Question Test (CQT)
- Control sample
- Control swab (background)
- Controlled air drying
- Controlled humidification
- Contusion
- Contusion (bruise)
- Convective heat transfer
- Convergent evidence
- Conversation analysis
- Conveyor belt slip fire
- Convolutional neural network (CNN)
- Conway microdiffusion
- Conway microdiffusion cell
- Cookie-jar reserve
- Coordinate reference system (CRS)
- Copy generation
- Copy-move detection
- Copy-move forgery
- Copybook system
- Cordon
- Cordoning
- Core
- Coriolis effect
- Corona wire
- Coroner model
- Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (CJA 2009)
- Coroner's jurisdiction
- Coroner's warrant
- Corpus
- Corpus jurisprudence
- Corpus linguistics
- Corrective action and CAPA
- Correlation Report
- Correspondent banking
- Corroborative value
- Corrosion fatigue
- Corrosion under insulation (CUI)
- Corrosive
- Corruption
- Cortex
- Cortical bone histology
- Cortical (compact) bone
- Cortical index
- Cosine Delta
- Cosine error
- Cotton-linen substrate
- Counterfeit Currency Database (CCD)
- Country liquor (India)
- Country-made bomb (desi / sutli bomb)
- Country-made firearm
- Country-made firearm (katta)
- Course-of-business writings
- Court-Appointed Expert
- Court sample
- Courtroom discourse
- Courtroom-language translation problem
- Covariate problem
- Covert channel
- CPD (Continuing Professional Development)
- CPD Part 35
- CpG methylation
- CP(MIP) Act 2003
- CPP Articles 74-75 (France)
- CPR Part 19
- CPR Part 35
- CPR Part 35 (England and Wales)
- Cq (cycle threshold)
- CQT
- Cranial robusticity
- Cranial suture closure
- CRASH3
- Crater analysis
- Crater glass
- Crazing
- Creatinine
- Creep
- Crescentic fingernail abrasion
- Crevice corrosion
- Crime Classification Manual (CCM)
- Crime (legal)
- Crime-lite
- Crime scene
- Crime scene management
- Crime scene sketch
- Criminal Geographic Targeting (CGT)
- Criminal investigative analysis (CIA)
- Criminal profiling
- Criminalistics
- Criminogenic need
- Criminology
- CrimPR Part 19
- Criterion validity
- Critical diameter
- Critical speed yaw mark
- CRM
- Crop mark
- Cross-checking
- Cross-correlation
- Cross-Cultural Competence
- Cross-examination
- Cross-polarised photography
- Cross-race effect
- Cross-reactivity
- Cross-reactivity matrix
- Cross-reference table (xref)
- Cross-script disguise
- Cross-section mount
- Cross-section sample
- Cross-section shape
- Cross-validation
- Crossdating
- Crossed Nicols
- Crossgrain
- Crown
- Crural index
- Crustose lichen
- Cryogenic grinding
- Cryoscopy
- Cryptanalysis
- CSI effect
- CSID (Called Subscriber Identification)
- CTS-2010 (Cheque Truncation System)
- CTS (Collaborative Testing Services)
- CTS2 (Revised Conflict Tactics Scales)
- Culpable homicide
- Cultural affiliation (NAGPRA)
- Culturally unidentifiable remains
- Cup-and-cone fracture
- Curvature
- Custodial death
- Custodial interrogation
- Custodian
- Custom versus mandatory standard
- Customer Due Diligence (CDD)
- Cut
- Cut-off
- Cut-off concentration
- Cuticle
- Cuticle fragment
- CVAAS
- CVE / KEV
- CVPC (Currency Verification Processing Centre)
- CVV / CVC
- CWGC (Commonwealth War Graves Commission)
- Cyanoacrylate (CA) fuming
- Cyanoacrylate fuming
- Cyanobacteria
- Cyanogenic glycoside
- Cycle sequencing
- Cystolith hair
- cyt-b barcoding
- Cyt-b PCR
- Cytochrome b
- Cytochrome-b (cyt-b)
- Cytochrome b (cytb)
- Cytochrome c oxidase (Complex IV)