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The Bow Street Runners - correct answer ✅-first modern detective force -made a magazine/newspaper called the "covent garden journal" (had descriptions of wanted persons) -made by Henry Fielding, first called the "Take Thieves" by roughly 1850, it was clear that American cities needed reliable detectives because of what four reasons? - correct answer ✅1. graft/corruption was common in big city police departments
- municipal (city) police jurisdictions were limited
- little communication between police departments in different citied
- offenders could flee from one jurisdiction to another who controlled the discontented working class and pursued bank and railroad robbers? - correct answer ✅the pinkerton national detective agency
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A "Rogues Gallery" was set up by the NYPD, what was it? - correct answer ✅photographs of known offenders arranged by criminal specialty and height the first major book describing the application of scientific principles to criminal investigation was written in 1893 by who? - correct answer ✅Hans Gross what is the name of the first major book describing the application of scientific principles to criminal investigation? - correct answer ✅criminal investigation what are the three major scientific systems for personal identification of criminals in wide use? - correct answer ✅1. anthropometry (body measurements)
- dactylography (fingerprint ID)
- deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA typing)
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typing in the US? - correct answer ✅Orlando Florida what are the two major components of criminal law? - correct answer ✅1. substantative law
- procedural criminal law substantatative law - correct answer ✅when an investigator has the needed proof to satisfy the particular elements of an offense, it can be said that a crime did a occur (elements that describe or define a crime) procedural criminal law - correct answer ✅details with the processes of arrest, search and seizure, interrogations, admissibility of evidence, and testifying (defines what can or cannot be done with or to people) what does the due process clause garuntee? - correct answer ✅fairness
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portions of the ________ amendment provide the foundation for how much of modern criminal procedure in the US today - correct answer ✅14th arrest - correct answer ✅the process of taking a person into legal custody to answer a criminal charge What are the three essential ingredients of an arrest? - correct answer ✅1. intention
- authority
- custody intention - correct answer ✅intention of taking the suspect into custody authority - correct answer ✅officer must have the actual authority
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- the name of the victim
- a description of the offense and how it occured probable cause - correct answer ✅a condition in which an officer has suspicion about an individual and knowledge of facts and circumstances that would lead a reasonable person excersizing ordinary caution to believe that a crime has been, is being, or is about to be committed what is the most common factor that can be used to establish probable cause? - correct answer ✅personal observation and knowledge of the officer/investigator the supreme court established the rule that any evidence unreasonable searched and seized could no longer be admissible in an court-state or federal - correct answer ✅Mapp v Ohio the court held that an officer cannot stop and frisk for illegal drugs but only for weapons, what case was
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this? - correct answer ✅terry v ohio in 1968 what provides that evidence obtained from an unreasonable search and seizure cannot be used as the new basis for learning about or collecting new admissable evidence not know about before? - correct answer ✅the fruits of the poisonous doctrine felony - correct answer ✅an act punishable by inprisonment for a term of one or more years, or by death deductive reasoning - correct answer ✅creates a hypothesis about the crime that is tested against the factual situation preliminary investigation - correct answer ✅the actions taken by the first officer to arrive at the scene of a crime after its detection and reporting to the police
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it is not important to know the arrest info on the suspect before conducting a what? - correct answer ✅neighborhood canvas chain of custody - correct answer ✅the witnesses, unbroken, written chronological history of who had the evidence when macroscopic scene - correct answer ✅The "large view" of a crime scene, including things such as locations, the victim's body, cars, and buildings. microscopic scene - correct answer ✅consists of the specific objects and pieces of evidence that are associated with the commission of the crime, including the knives, bite marks, hairs, and fibers, shoe and tire impressions, cigarette butts, blood, and so on the three major functions to be executed at the scene of a crime are? - correct answer ✅1. overall coordination
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- forensic services
- investigative services three broad categories of evidence in which investigators have a particular interest? (cat) - correct answer ✅1. corpus delecti evidence 2.associative evidence
- tracing evidence what search pattern is normally employed when the crime scene is significant in size? - correct answer ✅zone/quadrant tuberculosis - correct answer ✅a chronic bacterial infection that is spread by air and is accountable for more deaths worldwide than any other infectious disease 2 types of comparison samples - correct answer ✅1. unknown or questioned samples
- known samples
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advancement in _____ _____ _____ now allows the investigator to determine the question on whether or not the lights of a suspects vehicle were actually on or energized - correct answer ✅lamp fillament technology what are of greater value as evidence then rootless hairs? - correct answer ✅fibers the trial of accused murderer _____ _____ was one of the first cases using bite-mark analysis evidence to obtain a sucessful prosecution - correct answer ✅ted bundy when photographing bite-marks, the ideal scale for taking bite-mark evidence is what scale? - correct answer ✅the ABFO scale getting a what is a safer method of obtaining dental records for bite mark evidence if the altering of the teeth is a possibility - correct answer ✅court order
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under ordinary conditions, lab examination of blood evidence can determine the following 7 things about the source of blood: - correct answer ✅1. species
- sex
- blood type and dna profile
- whether drugs or alcohol have been used by the source of the blood 5.the presence of certain types of illnesses
- the presence of carbon monoxide
- whether the source was a smoker what is an excellent source of DNA? - correct answer ✅lipstick/balms traced forgery - correct answer ✅created by tracing over a genuine signature what is the prefered material for casting tire, footwear, and foot impression; stronger and faster
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competency - correct answer ✅refers to a witnesses personal qualifications for testifying in court competency has nothing to do with what? - correct answer ✅believability it is estimated that what percent of people will confess to a crime? - correct answer ✅80% what is regarded as the most unreliable form of evidence - correct answer ✅eyewitness identification and description the first notable incidence of supreme court intervention into interrogation practices is what? - correct answer ✅brown v missisippi a confession recieved as a result of physical brutality and violence by the police was not what? - correct answer ✅admissable in court
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the supreme court in the 1960's established a number of legal requirements and ______ ______ regarding interrogation of suspects - correct answer ✅constitutional garuntees the police are required to advise incustody suspects of what 4 things? (miranda rights) - correct answer ✅1. the right to remain silent
- the right to be told that anything said can and will be used against him or her in court
- the right to consult with an attorney prior to answering any questions and the right to have an attorney present during the interrogation
- if the suspect cannot afford to pay for an attorney, the court will appoint one. emotional approach - correct answer ✅appeals to the suspects sense of honor, morals, righteousness, fairplay, justice, family pride, religion, decency, and restitution, works best on first time offenders and women
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as an investigator, it is important to listen to a suspects statement even if you already know what? - correct answer ✅that they are guilty Field notes represent the information which forms the content of the - correct answer ✅incident report there are 6 recognized categories of interrogatory questions - correct answer ✅1. who 2.what 3.when 4.where 5.why 6.how what is the first step in the follow-up investigation? - correct answer ✅read the offense report and become thouroughly conversant with it
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What does NCIC stand for? - correct answer ✅National Crime Information Center investigators cannot make promises they what? - correct answer ✅don't intend to keep what 3 things does a vehicle canvass record? - correct answer ✅1. address or location of vehicle
- description of the vehicle
- plate number civil suites have been filed against people who stage crimes in order to do what? - correct answer ✅for the law enforcement agency to recover costs of the wasted investigative efforts the intelligence analytical cycle is a 6 step process which is continuous, what are the 6 steps? - correct answer ✅1. planning and direction 2.collection
- processing
- analysis and production
