Criminal Investigations - Ch. 3

A felony is an act usually punishable by imprisonment for:

• one or more years and/or a $500 fine.

• six months and/or a $1,000 fine.

• a term of one or more years, or death.

• six months and/or a $500 fine.

A misdemeanor is a lesser offense that may be punishable by:

• a fine, ordinarily not to exceed $500.

• imprisonment for no more than a year.

• more than one year in prison.

• a fine, ordinarily not to exceed $500 and/or imprisonment for no more than a year.

After interviewing the victim of a crime and two witnesses and examining the crime scene and the physical evidence, you use all of this information as a basis for developing a unifying and internally consistent explanation of the event. You have ________.

• used inductive reasoning

• committed Locard's Fallacy

• used deductive reasoning

• proceeded in an unobjective manner

Identify a true statement about successful investigators.

• They know that investigation is a systematic method of inquiry that is more science than art.

• They refrain from self-monitoring and rely on inductive and deductive reasoning because these methods are difficult to be distorted.

• They realize that successful investigations are always produced by rote application of the appropriate steps.

• They sometimes use illegal and unethical methods that are used to solve a case.

The actions taken by the first officer to arrive at the scene of a crime after its detection and reporting are collectively termed the "________."

• essential part of police work

• follow-up investigation

• cold search

• preliminary investigation

A(n) ________ is the police effort expended after the initial incident report is completed until the case is ready for prosecution.

• advanced investigation

• cold investigation

• collateral investigation

• follow-up investigation

If there is a chance the victim may die, the investigator should always get ________.

• the name of the suspect

• a dying declaration

• the address of the victim

• victim's next of kin

Which of the following is a step involved in a preliminary investigation?

• Reviewing the offense/incident report

• Securing the crime scene and evidence

• Re-interviewing the witnesses

• All of the answers are correct.

Which of the following terms is defined as a systematic approach to interviewing residents, merchants, and others who were in the immediate vicinity of a crime and may have useful information?

• Cross-examination

• Neighborhood canvass

• Redirect examination

• Vehicle canvass

Identify the three major functions to be executed at the scene of a crime.

• Overall coordination, forensic services, investigative services

• Arrest, search, seizure

• Coordination, arrest, interrogation

• Observation, supervision, technical assistance