Trace transfer
Definition
Material moved from the handler to the snare (fingerprints, DNA, fibres) or from the environment to the snare (soil, plant material) during manufacture, transport, or setting. Locard's exchange principle applied to a snare.
Related terms
- Anchor peg
- The stake, branch, or root to which a snare is fixed at the ground end, allowing the loop to stay open at...
- Circumferential groove
- The band of compressed skin and tissue left around a limb or neck by a taut wire snare. Groove depth and width...
- Spring-set snare
- A snare in which a bent sapling or tensioned wire provides a spring that lifts the caught animal off the ground when...
- Tool marks
- Impressions or striations left on an object (here, a wire cut end) by a tool (here, wire cutters). Class characteristics reflect tool...
- Wire gauge
- The diameter of a wire strand, typically expressed in millimetres or as a standard wire gauge number. Gauge is a class characteristic...
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- Snares, Traps, and Cable EvidenceMaterial moved from the handler to the snare (fingerprints, DNA, fibres) or from the environment to the snare (soil, plant material) during manufacture, transp...