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WorksheetsInvestigations Final
Total questions: 54
Worksheet time: 27mins
Criminal Intent is
Purposely performing an unlawful act and knowing the act to be illegal
Potential responsibility for payment of damages, but not jail time
An act or violation of the law
Having ill will or thinking criminal thoughts
A crime is
An act or violation of penal law and and punishable by fine, imprisonment or even death
Fun unless you get caught
A violation of the written law under "Ex Post Facto" conditions
Used by analysts to show patterns of where illegal activity will occur
Crime Mapping
An act or violation of penal law that can be pinchable by fine, jail, or even up to death
Potential responsibility for jail time, but not a fine
Used by analysts to show patterns of where crime occurs
Using an Atlas map and pinpointed where a particular crime has occured
A criminal investigation is
Perpetrating a fraud.
A. A person who searches for, collects, and preserves physical evidence in the investigation of a crime and suspected criminals. Also called a crime scene technician, examiner, or investigator.
Located, investigated, processed, and prepared by the initial arriving officer on major cases
A. The process of discovering, collecting, preparing, identifying, and presenting evidence to determine what happened and who is responsible
A criminal statute is
A statue that depicts any evil doer
A statue that is used to hide stolen items
A code section that explains what is illegal
Develops juris prudence in the legal organ of law books
Criminalistics is
The study of forensic psychology
A smooth criminal
A branch of forensic science involved with the recording, identification and interpretation of the minutiae (minute details) of physical evidence.
A. A person who searches for, collects, and preserves physical evidence in the investigation of a crime and suspected criminals. Also called a crime scene technician, examiner, or investigator.
The investigative process is?
The responsibility of all who work within the field of criminal justice, both public and private
Reserved for the Detective division of a police department
A bit tiresome and not really worth the effort
Likely started once the scene is cleared and the person(s) are taken into custody
The first goal of the investigation should be?
Document and dance moves that your partner may be trying at the scene
Determine if a crime was committed
Meet with the suspect at the scene
Leave no stone unturned
Who will generally be responsible for securing the crime scene?
The Chief
The Crime Scene Tech
The responding officer
Detectives
Criminal investigations are considered both what?
A science and an art
An honor and a privilege
Costly and time consuming
Minutia and grueling
Tools for the investigator include all of the following EXCEPT
Information
Telepathy
Instrumentations
Interviews and interrogations
Civil Liability is?
Acting like a lady or gentleman in court
Potential responsibility of payment of damages, but not jail time
Purposely performing an unlawful act and knowing the act to be illegal
Minor criminal charges where a fine is imposed
An exploded view of a room lookin down over the top of the sketch would be an example of
Retracting molar method
Baseline method
Triangulation method
Cross projection method
Finding two adjacent walls and measuring from those walls would be
Rectangular coordinate method
Baseline method
Musical triangle method
Cordotomy method
Utilizing two fixed objects and measuring to the center or ends of a piece of evidence
Rectangular coordinate method
Baseline method
Triangulation method
Cross projection method
Finding two known fixed points and measuring from a straight line to items
Rectangular coordinate method
Baseline method
Triangulation method
Cross projection method
Investigative notes are
A temporary record of the facts to be later used in court
A permanent record of the facts of a case to be used in investigations, reports, and court
Written in hieroglyphics for court purposes
All of the above
A marker at a crime scene is
Used to show accurate location of items
Used to draw attention to an item in photographs
Used to show relative size of an item in photographs
All of the above
Effective notes are complete, _________, specific, factual, clear, well or
Accurate
Recordings
Scribbled
Legitimate
The three minimum types of photographs to be take at a scene
Frontal, egress, and establishing
Front, back and side
Long range, medium range, and close range
Far, intermittent, and full frame
A spiral search pattern
Zigzags back and forth from the center of the room to the walls
Starts in one corner and crosses to the opposite corner
Starts at one wall and moves towards the far wall in a circular pattern
Starts in the center of the room and moves in a circular pattern toward the outer edges
A line search
Moves in a side by side line, all together moving forward
Moves in a single line sideways to the edge of the search
Moves in a circular pattern over the search area
Moves in a front to back straight line moving forward
A grid search
Moves from left to right in a single line
Moves in a spiral motion from inside to out
Moves in a line across one direction of the room and then shifts and changes directions back across the room
Involves many officers moving back and forth continiously
A zone search
Moves from left to right in a single line
Moves in a spiral motion for inside to out.
Moves with investigators getting in the mental zone prior to searching
Involves each person in a quadrant of the room searching their own areas
Some advantages of photographs are
Immediate, accurate representation, create interest, increases attention of the jurry
Show's your artistic and caring side
Instant, can be altered easily, represents the investigators point of view
All of the above
For a photograph to be admitted into court it must be
A true and accurate representation of the scene
Fair and non-inflammatory
Relevant
All answers are correct
A crime scene is
Any bathroom after eating at Taco Bell
A dynamic environment which begins to change immediately after the criminal action occurs
Usually messy and requires a multitude of people to meander about to complete
The secondary location of a crime that is located after the initial scene
An investigator at the scene
Immediately becomes part of the scene and will alter it
Will be properly equipped to leave everything at the scene unchanged
Will remain outside of the caution tape to take final measurements
All answers are correct
Testimonial evidence is
Evidence that supports statements made by witnesses on the stand
Evidence of oral and written statements given to police as well as court testimony
Evidence that can be described as opposed to being seen
All answers are correct
Effective notes are
Complete, accurate, specific, clear, well organized and legible
Legitimate, thought provoking, suggestive, neat, and organized
Complete, factual, actual, non-inflammatory, eager, and helpful
Non-inflammatory, helpful, used in lieu of photographs, and legible
A primary scene
Is the specific and most important scene
Has crime scene tape around it and will lead investigators to the secondary scene
The original location of a crime or accident
The first scene in which investigators are called to during an investigation
Latent prints
Are visible prints developed with film
Fingerprints in mud and blood
Prints that must be processed in order to see and collect
Shoe and tire impressions that contain trace evidence
An Alibi is
A statement of where a suspect was during the crime if they were not at the crime
A statement to the court to prove who was not at the scene when the police arrived
A tumultuous act that identifies one person at the scene but not another
All of the above
Physical evidence
Evidence that refers to any items of evidence that may be in motion at some point
Any material items that would be present at the crime scene, on victims, or in the suspect's possession
Evidence that tends to prove innocence or guilt
All answers are correct
Ballistics
The study of bullets and ammunition through the comparison of fired bullets, cartridges, guns and gunpowder patterns on people and objects.
The study of ammunition and cartridges fired from muskets and compared to handguns.
The study of forensic velocity as it relates to shell casings fired from guns and gun powder patterns that they leave on people and objects
All answers are correct
Trace evidence
Physical evidence that is found in small but measurable amounts such as skin, hair, or fibers
Small amounts of intangible glass, hairs, or fibers that are often not at the scene
Physical and immeasurable amounts of evidence that are found at the scene
All answers are correct
Toxicology
Refers to the drunken activities that the victim had prior to being involved in a crime
Tests bodily fluids and tissues for last meal eaten by the officer
Tests bodily fluids and tissues to determine the presence of drugs, alcohol and/or poison.
Tests the cavities and fluids of the deceased for poisons and chemical vapors.
An Arch fingerprint
Type of print with a pattern that comes in from the side and loops to the same side
Type of print where the pattern originates from one side and leaves from the other.
Type of print that represents 90% of the population.
Type of print that has a pattern that envelops the print in a circular pattern.
Fingerprint core
The center of a fingerprint
The center of a delta in the print
The outer edge of a delta
The circular center of an arch
The Delta of a print
The minutia of the center of the print
Pattern that goes in one side and out the other on a print
The continuous ridge line that occurs on the outer edge of the print
Triangular ridge pattern that is often used as a starting point for comparison
Patent Print
Is a visible print that happens through the transfer of blood, ink, dirt or another medium.
Is a visible print that can be seen in a 3 dimensional impression such as butter or clay.
Is a hidden paste man made visible through the use of powders or other techniques.
Is a hidden fingerprint that has been cleaned by blood, ink, dirt or other medium.
Fingerprint
The ridges and minutiae that are present on the friction ridges of your fingers and feet.
Hidden print that is made visible through the use of powders of other techniques.
The transfer of dirt, oils, and DNA from your fingers
All answers are correct
Plastic Print
. visible fingerprint that happens when fingers with blood, ink, or mud
Three-dimensional fingerprint made in soft material such as clay, soap, or putty.
A print that must be treated with superglue to become 3-dimensionally visible.
A casting made of a suspect's fingers; usually with silicone
Loop fingerprint
Type of print that the pattern flows inward and returns in the direction of the origin.
Type of print where the pattern originates from one side and leaves from the other.
Type of print that represents 30% of the population.
Type of print that has a pattern that envelops the print in a circular pattern.
Minutiae
Small invisible details that must be observed through microscopy.
Details in the shapes and position of ridges in fingerprints that are each unique.
Invisible ridge lines that become shapes as you are not looking.
All answers are correct
The reliability of eye witness accounts can be affected by
The type of crime
Interviewing technique used by the investigator
The time between the crime and the interview
All of the above
Which of the following is NOT considered physical evidence
Fiber
Testimony
Tool marks
Soil
If evidence has class characteristics, it
Can link a suspect to a crime with certainty
Has basic manufacturer details
Can exonerate either the suspect or the victim
All answers are correct
Which of the following would be considered individual evidence
DNA
Soil
Paint
Tire
Nuclear DNA can be identified from
the hair shaft
the hair root or follicle
both
neither
Who was the person convicted on the basis of fiber evidence
Ronald Cotton
Colonel Mustard
Wayne Williams
Richard Vorder Bruegge'
Trace evidence at the crime scene may include
Sand and Soil
Physical evidence found in small amounts
Powders, explosive residue, metal or glass particles
All answers are correct
A piece of flass has a bullet hole that is larger on one side of the glass than the other. This indicates
a high powered shotgun made the hole
the larger side is the entrance
the larger side is the exit
the bullet was traveling at a low velocity
The amount of light transmitted through a sample can be measured as a function of wavelength through which procedure
Light Bright peg procedure
Spectroscopy
Electrophoresis
Electromagnetic
