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Victims, Suspects, Witnesses, and Detectives MCQ

_____ is known as a person who either sees something take place or has information about the event or people involved.

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Correct Answer: Witness

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_____ is defined as the study of victims and their experiences, including interacting with offenders

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Correct Answer: Victimology

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_____ is professionals often employed in law enforcement or prosecutorial agencies to support victims throughout their interactions with the criminal justice process through direct services and providing referrals

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Correct Answer: Victim advocate

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Is subcultural perspective posits the existence of alternative values and attitudes by groups or subcultures in a larger society ?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as the concept that various societal pressures influence behavior.

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Correct Answer: Strain theory

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_____ is defined as new collection technologies.

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Correct Answer: Soft surveillance

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_____ is learning through observing and imitating others, especially admired individuals

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Correct Answer: Social learning theory

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Is social disorganization theory examines the circumstances of the environment where a person lives to postulate criminal involvement. ?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as various and include: containment, neutralization, and self-control.

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Correct Answer: Social control theories

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_____ is defined as the use of sanctions by individuals or institutions to guide or control behavior through the informal means of socialization or the formal means of the external sanctions by government agencies.

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Correct Answer: Social control perspective

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_____ is the appearance at one time and in one place of a likely offender, a suitable target for that offender, and the absence of a capable guardian of the target.

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Correct Answer: Routine activities theory (RAT)

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Is reliable confidential informant (RCI) sometimes distinguished from a confidential informant by virtue of having been utilized a set number of times and found to have provided accurate information ?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as describes and predicts behavior based on human thought and emotion

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Correct Answer: Psychological theory

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_____ is defined as the level of information needed for a court to issue a warrant, for an officer to conduct certain searches or arrests, and the standard for a grand jury indictment

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Correct Answer: Probable cause

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_____ is device that measures physiological responses during questioning to detect stress levels.

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Correct Answer: Polygraph

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Is personal retribution punishment for a crime or offense carried out by the victim against the one who committed the crime ?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as advisement of rights given by the police to a criminal suspect prior to questioning.

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Correct Answer: Miranda warning

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_____ is defined as knowledge or intent to commit the crime.

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Correct Answer: Mens rea

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_____ is various forms of abuse or violence committed by an individual with whom the victim is currently or had previously been in an intimate relationship.

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Correct Answer: Intimate partner violence (IPV)

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Is interview questioning or talking to an individual who is believed to have information regarding some incident or crime. ?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as questioning an individual who is suspected of committing a crime

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Correct Answer: Interrogation

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_____ is defined as traditional methods of investigation

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Correct Answer: Hard surveillance

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_____ is viewing a suspect by a victim or witness within minutes of a crime. Also known as a showup identification.

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Correct Answer: Field identification

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_____ is defined as in criminal justice, perspective that interacting with others provides a vehicle to learn and adopt their values, attitudes, or motivations to commit deviant acts.

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Correct Answer: Differential association theory

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_____ is one of several pieces of technology that measure physiological response as a way to detect stress, which may, in turn, be caused in part by speaking or acting deceptively.

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Correct Answer: Detection of deception device

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_____ is known as enacted in 2004, the act lists the rights of victims in federal crimes.

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Correct Answer: Crime Victims’ Rights Act (CVRA)

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_____ is defined as an individual who provides verifiable information to law enforcement.

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Correct Answer: Confidential informant (CI)

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_____ is typically refers to admitting to all elements of a crime.

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Correct Answer: Confession

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_____ is defined as pseudoscientific device that purports to measure stress from a person’s voice.

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Correct Answer: Computer voice stress analyzer (CVSA)

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_____ is known as ongoing series of attacks typically between two families.

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Correct Answer: Blood feud

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_____ is defined as perspective that examines physical aspects of humans to explain psychological reasons for the behavior.

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Correct Answer: Biological theory

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_____ is defined as acknowledgment, such as to the guilt of committing an act.

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Correct Answer: Admission

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_____ is defined as element that is the criminal act.

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Correct Answer: Actus reus

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Which of the following technologies are used to aid investigations?

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Correct Answer: All of these

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The Supreme Court’s Miranda (1966) decision put in place protections for the suspect’s ______ amendment right against self-incrimination.

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Correct Answer: 5th

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A person who has provided verified information multiple times is referred to as a ______.

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Correct Answer: RCI

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______ occurs when a witness or victim is taken to the location of the potential suspect near the crime.

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Correct Answer: Field identification

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Which of the following is NOT identified by the National Center for Victims of Crime as a right of victims?

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Correct Answer: All of these

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______ theory reflects on how the tension we hay feel at not having things that other people have can lead to various strategies to acquire those things—not all of which are socially acceptable approach.

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Correct Answer: Strain

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______ theory can provide insights into how we model our behavior after others, especially those we want to be like.

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Correct Answer: Social learning

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Individual explanations for deviant behavior include ______ theories.

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Correct Answer: A and b

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Victimology is the study of how the potential victim and offender come together.

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Correct Answer: True

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Personal retribution is also referred to as blood revenge.

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Correct Answer: False

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