What is Crime Scene?

Crime scenes are inconsistent- each one presents the investigator a new challenge
Crime scene: Any physical location in which a crime has occurred or is suspected of having occurred.

2 types of classifications:
a) Based on location: Primary and secondary
    Does not infer any priority or importance to the crime scene but is just a designation of sequence of     location.

• Primary crime scene: Site of the original or first criminal activity.
• Secondary crime scene: Alternate/subsequent location where additional evidence may be found.

b) Based on size: Macroscopic and microscopic

• Macroscopic crime scene: Possibly composed of many crime scenes.
• Microscopic crime scene: More focused on the specific types of physical evidence found in the macroscopic crime scenes. 

Example: 

A gunshot victim’s body dumped in a field represents the following crime scenes within the overall crime scene of the field: the body, the body’s wounds and the ground around the body.

The microscopic crime scenes are the trace evidence on the body, the gunshot residue around the wound and the tyre tread marks in the ground next to the body.