Secondary transfer
The movement of a glass fragment from a primary surface (which contacted the broken glass) to a secondary surface (which contacted the primary surface but not the broken glass directly); a critical consideration when assessing the evidential significance of glass fragments on a suspect.
Explained in these topics
- Touch DNA, Hair, Bone, Teeth and Challenging Substrates
- GSR Sampling Protocols, Persistence and Secondary Transfer
- Glass Comparison: RI, Density and LA-ICP-MS
- Gunshot Residue: Three-Component Particles and SEM-EDX
- Glass Fragmentation and Direction-of-Force Analysis
- Paint Databases (PDQ, EUCAP) and Comparison Casework