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Criminal Investigations MCQ

In general, acts of depersonalization are often associated with __________ murderers.

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Correct Answer: Disorganized

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_____ is known as generally, those crimes made unlawful as the result of a community’s moral stance on issues. Examples include gambling, prostitution, and pornography.

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Correct Answer: Vice crimes

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_____ is known as Those pieces of information or evidence that provide adequate information to move an investigation from the preliminary to the follow-up stage. Examples include pictures of a suspect or the tag number from a car involved in a crime, a viable way to identify stolen property.

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Correct Answer: Solvability factors

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_____ is known as generally refer to those offenses that affect the property of a person or business rather than the actual person. Some examples include theft, vandalism, burglary, or arson.

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Correct Answer: Property crimes

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_____ is known as a strategy built on the idea of identifying the underlying causes of a crime or other police problem in devising a strategy to combat that problem rather than the symptoms.

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Correct Answer: Problem-oriented policing (POP)

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_____ is known as the initial inquiry into a reported crime, usually conducted by a patrol officer.

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Correct Answer: Preliminary investigation

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_____ is defined as a common way of referring to crimes committed against the body of a victim, such as an assault, battery, robbery, sexual battery, or homicide.

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Correct Answer: Persons crimes

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_____ is unit tasked with investigating crimes that require significant resources. Such squads in larger agencies may handle, for example, homicides.

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Correct Answer: Major case squad

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_____ is known as additional resources or an extended investigation may occur in serious cases or those where sufficient evidence exists.

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Correct Answer: Follow-up investigation

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_____ is defined as evidence such as personal knowledge or information that may prove or disprove a fact. Direct evidence does not require inference.

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Correct Answer: Direct evidence

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_____ is defined as generally, a crime that is no longer being actively investigated, usually due to a lack of leads or evidence.

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Correct Answer: Cold case

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_____ is evidence that alone may infer a variety of facts. The trier of fact will reach his or her own conclusion about what the presence of a piece of evidence ultimately means in a case.

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Correct Answer: Circumstantial evidence

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ViCAP stands for ______.

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Correct Answer: Violent Criminal Apprehension Program

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During which part of the investigation will the investigator begin planning the steps necessary to move toward a case resolution?

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Correct Answer: Follow-up investigation

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The ______ study conducted in 1975 by Greenwood & Petersilia revealed that “information taken by the patrol officer first on the scene was the most important factor in determining whether an arrest was made.”

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Correct Answer: RAND

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Which is (are) stage(s) of the criminal investigation?

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Correct Answer: A and b

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Which is NOT a measure of a successful investigation?

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Correct Answer: All of these are measures of a successful investigation.

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Of the reported crime, only ______ of violent crime was cleared.

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Correct Answer: 46%

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Which agency’s motto is “We never sleep”?

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Correct Answer: Pinkerton detective agency

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James Fielding appointed a night watch and used men known as ______ to investigate various crimes and bring the accused before the magistrate to answer for their crimes.

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Correct Answer: Thief-takers

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The Americanized “shire-reeve” of England became the state police.

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Correct Answer: False

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Scottish-born Allan Pinkerton formed the first private detective agency in the United States.

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Correct Answer: True

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Vehicle Exception is an exception to the search warrant requirement that allows the police to search a vehicle with _____

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Correct Answer: Both

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An exception to the search warrant requirement that allows the police to search the outer clothing of a subject for weapons based on reasonable suspicion criminal activity is afoot is known as _____

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Correct Answer: Stop and frisk exception

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Search Warrant is a document issued by a judge that authorizes a search of a _____ for purposes of seizing evidence.

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Correct Answer: Any of these

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Search Incident to Arrest Exception is an exception to the search warrant requirement that allows the police to search ______ when that person is arrested.

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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A governmental infringement into a person’s reasonable expectation of privacy for the purpose of discovering things that could be used as evidence in a criminal prosecution refers to _____

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Correct Answer: Search

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Evidence that relates to the case at hand is known as _____

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Correct Answer: Relevant Evidence

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A traffic stop made for any traffic offense that then allows for other law enforcement action is known as Pretext Traffic Stop.

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Correct Answer: True

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An exception to the search warrant requirement that allows the police to seize evidence when that evidence is in plain sight of the officer is known as _____

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Correct Answer: Plain View Exception

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An exception to the search warrant requirement that allows the police to search places and things where people do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy refers to _____

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Correct Answer: Other Places Exception

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Necessary Evidence is the evidence used to _____

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Correct Answer: All of these

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A list of the rights that must be provided to an individual when _____

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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Evidence that is significant and can help prove a fact is known as _____

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Correct Answer: Material Evidence

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A search in which the police talk with the occupants of a home in an attempt to obtain consent to search the home is known as _____

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Correct Answer: Knock and Talk Search

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Hot Pursuit Exception is an exception to the search warrant requirement that allows the police to _____ if they are in pursuit of the subject and have probable cause to believe the subject committed a crime.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Frye Test is a legal test to determine whether _____ evidence is admissible.

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Correct Answer: Scientific

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Exigent Circumstances are emergency situations that allow a search to occur with a warrant.

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Correct Answer: False

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Exclusionary Rule is a rule stating that a search was_____, evidence seized from that search is not admissible in court.

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Correct Answer: Unreasonable

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Daubert Standard is a legal test to determine whether _____ evidence is admissible.

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Correct Answer: Scientific

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Generally speaking, not free to leave means _____

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Correct Answer: Custody

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Consent exception is an exception to the search warrant requirement that allows the police to conduct a search without consent to do so.

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Correct Answer: False

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Competent Evidence is the evidence that is _____.

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Correct Answer: Both

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The record of individuals who maintained control over the physical evidence from the time it was obtained by the police to when it was introduced in court is known as Chain of Custody.

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Correct Answer: True

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A document issued by a judge that authorizes the arrest of an individual is known as _____

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Correct Answer: Arrest Warrant

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Arrest occurs when the police take a person into custody for the purposes of criminal _____.

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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