Forensic terms beginning with S
556 terms
- S and Marper v. UK (2008)
- S-N curve
- SAAMI
- Saccharimeter
- SAE J1739
- SAE viscosity grade
- SAFE
- SAFE kit
- Safe-life design
- Safer alternative design (SAD)
- Safety fuse
- Safety Management System (SMS)
- Safety planning
- Safrole
- Salivary drool track
- SAMHSA-5
- Sample preparation
- Sandwich ELISA
- SANE
- SANE-A / SANE-P
- SANE examination record
- Sanguinarine
- Saponification
- Saponin treatment
- SAPROF
- Sapwood
- SARA
- Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)
- Sarconecrophagous
- Sarcophagidae
- Sarcosaprophagous
- Sarin (GB)
- Saturated NaCl
- Saturation
- Saturation kinetics
- Savanna vs. forest elephant
- SAVRY (Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth)
- S+B
- Scale bar
- Scale microstructure
- SCAN (Scientific Content Analysis)
- Scapular glenoid breadth
- Scavenger succession
- Scavenging artefact
- Scene authority
- Scene correction factor
- Scene log
- Scene manager
- Scene notes
- Scene-of-recovery
- Scene reconstruction
- Scene-to-laboratory transfer record
- Scene zoning
- Scent cone
- Schedule 1 (CWC)
- Schedule H
- Schedule H1
- Schedule I (CSA)
- Schedule II (CSA)
- Schedule lag
- Schedule X
- Schedules I to VI (pre-2022) / I to IV (post-2022)
- Schema-focused therapy (SFT)
- Scheuer-Black framework
- Schmeling protocol
- Schreger angle
- Schreger lines
- Sciatic notch (greater)
- Scientific method
- Scintillation detector
- Sclerenchyma
- Scope creep
- Scope of practice
- Scope of work
- Scott test
- Screening test
- Scute
- SDDIS
- SDO
- SDS-PAGE
- Se gene / Se428
- SE33 (ACTBP2)
- Sealed packet
- Sealed packet bag
- Sealed packet protocol
- Search coverage layer
- Search pattern
- Search strategy
- Seasonal marker
- Seat of blast
- Seat of explosion
- Seat of the fire
- Sebaceous residue
- SEC
- Second-digit test
- Secondary arc
- Secondary blast injury
- Secondary coloniser
- Secondary container
- Secondary context
- Secondary dentine
- Secondary deposition
- Secondary drowning
- Secondary electron (SE)
- Secondary explosive
- Secondary grave
- Secondary meaning
- Secondary missile
- Secondary ossification centre
- Secondary osteon
- Secondary pest
- Secondary projectile
- Secondary scatter
- Secondary scene
- Secondary transfer
- Secondary traumatic stress
- Secondary writing
- Secrecy enforcement
- Secretor
- Secretor status
- Section 105 BNSS
- Section 164A CrPC
- Section 176(3) BNSS
- Section 25 Arms Act
- Section 27 Arms Act
- Section 39 BSA
- Section 45 (Indian Evidence Act)
- Section 57 (Aadhaar Act, struck down)
- Section 63 BSA
- Section 7 PC Act 1988
- Section 73 IEA / BSA 2023
- Section 79 safe harbour
- Section drawing
- Section routing
- Sectional density
- Sectional density (SD)
- Secure Enclave
- Security feature
- Security thread
- Sedative-hypnotic
- See-through register
- Segmental analysis
- Segregation of duties
- Seizure memo (panchnama)
- Select agent
- Selected ion monitoring (SIM)
- Selected reaction monitoring (SRM)
- Selection rule
- Selective-phase corrosion
- Sell v. United States (2003)
- Selvi v. Karnataka
- Selvi v. State of Karnataka (2010)
- SEM
- SEM-EDS
- SEM-EDS (ASTM E1588-20)
- SEM-EDX
- SEM-EDX (Scanning Electron Microscopy with Energy-Dispersive X-ray analysis)
- SEM fractography
- Semenogelin I and II
- Semtex H
- Sensitivity
- Sensitivity and specificity in forensic context
- Sensitivity limit
- Sensitivity threshold
- Sensor pattern noise (SPN)
- Sentence embedding
- Sentinel injury
- Sequence analysis
- Sequence evidence
- Sequencing-by-synthesis (SBS)
- Sequential examination protocol
- Sequential gate design
- Sequential lineup
- Sequential pedestal method
- Sequential processing
- Sequential reconstruction
- Sequential testing protocol
- Sequential unmasking
- Seratec PSA Semiquant
- Serial arson
- Serology
- Serrate leaf margin
- SERS
- Serum
- Serum tryptase
- Service Control Policy
- Session restore
- Sessions Court
- Sex trafficking
- Sexine and nexine
- Sexual assault (POCSO)
- Sexual dimorphism
- Sexual offence
- SFIO
- SfM point cloud
- SfM (Structure from Motion)
- SFO
- SFSL
- SHA-256
- Shahtoosh
- Shared device model
- Shared responsibility model
- Shear-thinning (pseudoplastic)
- Shear zone
- Shell company
- ShellBags
- SHERLOC
- Shimmer
- Shipman colour stages
- Shirorekha
- Shodhana
- Shored exit wound
- Short-amplicon strategy
- Short tandem repeat (STR) profiling
- Shotgun metagenomics
- ShotSpotter
- Sibling likelihood ratio (SLR)
- SICAR (Shoeprint Image Capture and Retrieval)
- SICPA OVI
- Side-channel attack
- Side determination
- Side flash
- SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)
- Sieve analysis
- Sieve mesh recovery
- Sieve recovery
- SIFT (Scale-Invariant Feature Transform)
- Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)
- Signature
- Signature panel
- Significant Social Media Intermediary
- Significant Social Media Intermediary (SSMI)
- Silicon drift detector (SDD)
- Silphidae
- Silphidae (burying beetles and allies)
- SILVA
- SIM swap
- Similarity score
- Simon's test
- Simple distillation
- Simple hurt
- Simulated forgery
- Simulated suicide note
- Simultaneous interpretation
- Simultaneous lineup
- Single-base powder
- Single-bullet trajectory analysis (JFK/HSCA)
- Single-context recording
- Single joint expert (SJE)
- Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)
- Sink-float test
- Sinodont vs. Sundadont
- Sinterfire
- SINTOX
- Sintox primer
- SIRS-2
- Site archive
- Site datum
- Site grid
- Six-element IED model
- Sizing
- Skeletal histomorphometry
- Skeletal survey
- Skeletochronology
- Skeleton context sheet
- Skeletonisation stage
- Skid mark
- Skid-mark formula
- Skimmer
- Skimming
- Skin distortion
- SLAAC
- Slamfire
- Slant
- Slant change
- Slant drift
- SLE
- Slick-Sherman-Iverson criteria
- SLTD database
- SMAC
- Small quantity (NDPS)
- SMART (Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool)
- Smith v. Jones (1999)
- Smokeless propellant
- Smooth-bore firearm
- Smoothbore
- Smothering
- Smouldering combustion
- Smurfing (structuring)
- Snapshot chain
- Snow-print wax
- SNP
- SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism)
- SNPforID consortium
- Sociolect
- Sock puppet
- SOCO
- Soda-lime glass
- Sodium carbonate hand wash
- Sodium fluoride / potassium oxalate (grey-top tube)
- Sodium pentothal
- Sodium polytungstate (SPT)
- Sodium rhodizonate
- Sodium rhodizonate test
- Soft-tissue thickness
- Soil
- Soil horizon
- Soil inversion
- Soil loading
- Soil micromorphology
- Soil staining
- Soil temperature logging
- Soil texture
- Solid-phase extraction (SPE)
- Solid-phase microextraction (SPME)
- Solvent-loss dating
- Solvent-loss method
- Somatic (clinical) death
- Somatic death
- Song Ci (1186-1249)
- Soot (blackening)
- Soot horizon
- Soret band
- SORS
- SOTP
- Sound spectrograph
- Source attribution
- Source country
- Source-filter model
- Southern blot
- Spalling
- Spatial resolution
- SPE
- Speaker profiling
- Special-category data (GDPR)
- Special Investigation Unit (SIU)
- Special measures (YJCEA 1999)
- Special Methylated Spirit (SMS / SDA)
- Special-purpose entity (SPE)
- Speciation
- Species complex
- Species confirmation (DNA)
- Species identification
- Species resolution rate
- Specific antidote
- Specific intent
- Specific optical rotation ([α])
- Spectral cross-correlation
- Spectral interference
- Spectral matrix
- Spectral subtraction
- Spectrogram
- Spectrophotometry
- Specular reflection
- Sperm reporting conventions
- Spermatozoa
- Spermatozoon (pl. spermatozoa)
- SPF
- Spheroidal propellant particle
- Spin drift
- Spin-spin coupling (J)
- Spiracle
- Splicing
- Split-sample protocol
- SPME
- Spoilation
- Spoilation doctrine
- Spoliation letter
- Spore
- Sporopollenin
- Sporopollenin vs. biogenic silica
- Spradley-Stull 2018 standardisation
- Spring-set snare
- Spur formation
- Sputter coating
- Squalene
- Squats
- Squib
- Squib load
- SQUID
- SRM (Sex Offender Risk Management) framework
- Stab (punctured) wound
- Stable-2007
- Stable isotope
- Stable isotope analysis
- Stable isotope ratio
- STAFS
- Stage micrometer
- Staging
- Stalking Risk Profile (SRP)
- Stamped marking
- Stamping depth
- STANAG 2920
- Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs)
- Standard curve
- Standard error of estimate (SEE)
- Standard of care
- Standard of proof
- Standard or exemplar
- Standard penetration test (SPT)
- Standardisation
- Standing orders
- Staphylinidae
- Staphylococcal enterotoxin (SE)
- StAR initiative
- Starch grain
- START (Short-Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability)
- Stas-Otto method
- Stas-Otto procedure
- State FSL
- State of the art
- Stateful firewall
- Static-99R
- Static headspace
- Stationary noise
- Stationary phase
- Statistical Process Control (SPC)
- Stature estimation uncertainty
- Stature regression equation
- Statutory rape
- Steam distillation
- Steganalysis
- Steganography
- Stellate fracture
- Stellate laceration
- Stereo microscope
- Stereomicroscopy
- Stereoscopic microscope
- Sternal rib end
- Stewart 1979 cut-offs
- Sticky end (cohesive end)
- Stiffness coefficients A and B
- Stimulant
- Stippling
- Stippling (tattooing)
- Stochastic effects
- Stochastic threshold (ST)
- Stokes and anti-Stokes lines
- Stokes settling formula
- Stokes shift
- Stokes shift (Raman)
- Stored-product entomology
- Stored-product insects (SPIs)
- Stover-Ryan framework
- STR profiling
- STR (short tandem repeat)
- Strained zone
- Strangulation Documentation Form
- Stratification
- Stratigraphy
- Stream cipher
- Stress-concentration factor (Kt)
- Stress-corrosion cracking (SCC)
- Stress intensity factor (K)
- Stress intensity range (ΔK)
- Striated mark
- Striation mark
- Striation marks
- Striations
- Strict liability
- Stringency
- STRmix
- Stroke order
- Strontium-87/86 ratio
- Strontium isoscape
- Strontium isotope ratio (Sr-87/Sr-86)
- Strontium peroxide (SrO2)
- STRUCTURE / ADMIXTURE
- Structure-from-Motion (SfM)
- Structured-light projection
- Structured professional judgement (SPJ)
- Structured professional judgment (SPJ)
- Stutter (MPS)
- Stutter peak
- Stylometric signature
- Stylometry
- Sub-2 µm particle column
- Sub-adult sex problem
- Sub-class characteristic
- Sub-class characteristics
- Sub-pubic angle
- Sub-pubic concavity
- Subclass characteristics
- Subclass characteristics (footwear)
- Subfamilies Panicoideae and Chloridoideae
- Subject-matter jurisdiction
- Sublimation hazard
- Sublimation (TATP context)
- Submersion interval
- Subpubic angle
- Substantial similarity
- Substrate control
- Substrate effect
- Substrate interferent
- Succession
- Succession method
- Succession wave
- Successional PMI window
- Suchey-Brooks system
- Sudan dyes (I-IV)
- Sudden cardiac death (SCD)
- Sudden death
- Sufficient quantity
- Suicide note
- Suicidological linguistics
- SUID / SGID
- Sulfide stress cracking (SSC)
- Sulphhaemoglobin (SHb)
- Sulphur mustard (HD)
- Super-resolution
- Superimposition
- Supernote
- Supply chain contamination analysis
- Supply chain tracing
- Suppressed conductivity IC
- Supra-orbital margin
- Supreme Court of India
- Surface tension
- Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) / STR
- Suspicious transaction reporting
- Suzuki-Tsuchihashi classification
- SVP civil commitment
- SWFS
- SWFS code of ethics
- SWFS reporting standards
- SWG (Scientific Working Group)
- SWGANTH
- SWGDAM
- SWGDE
- SWGDOC
- SWGDOC and other SWGs
- SWGDOC nine-point scale
- SWGDRUG
- SWGDRUG Category C
- SWGFAST
- SWGFEX
- SWGFEX Type C interferent list
- SWGGSR Guide (2011)
- SWGIT
- SWGMAT
- SWGMAT guidelines
- SWGTREAD
- Swietenia
- Swiss Cheese Model
- Switch (trigger)
- Symmetric key
- Sympathetic ink
- Symptom amplification
- Synanthropic species
- Syncope
- Syntactic ambiguity
- Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
- Synthetic fibre
- System suitability test
- System variables
- Systematic-grid search