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There are three broad categories of evidence that investigators attempt to locate. Those categories are Corpus delicti, Associative and ______________.


A) Fingerprint
B) Tracing
C) Forensic
D) Tire tracks

E) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

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There are three broad categories of evidence that investigators attempt to locate

A) True
B) False

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Typically, the preliminary investigation, often carried out by a uniformed officer, includes one of the following steps in addition to interviewing victims:


A) Holding a press conference
B) Taking selfies with victims
C) Ignoring the chain of custody related to evidence
D) Assessing the need for emergency care

E) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

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Victims-and witnesses-who give evidence, include eyewitness identification of the offender, can be mistaken, have their facts all wrong, or be attempting to ______________.


A) Get in good with the police
B) Get their name in the paper
C) Earn a reward
D) Cause trouble for some innocent party

E) None of the above
F) A) and D)

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A _______ may be assigned to the case and may even show up at the crime scene before the patrol officer leaves.


A) Prosecuting attorney
B) Judge
C) Detective or criminal investigator
D) Crime analyst

E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

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Among the national databases available to the crime analyst are AEXIS, NIBRIN, NDPIX, NAMUS and _______.


A) CSI
B) NCIS
C) NCIC
D) CVS

E) A) and C)
F) All of the above

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It is important for intelligence analysts and tactical crime analysts to have a mastery of how a criminal investigation proceeds

A) True
B) False

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Experienced investigators will avoid hunches or developing leads or suspects based on intuition

A) True
B) False

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Charles R. Swanson and his colleagues (2012) propose that there is a continuous six-step process used by intelligence centers; the first step is: Planning and direction

A) True
B) False

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The biggest challenge in an investigation is when the offender is _______.


A) Known
B) A celebrity
C) Unknown
D) Wealthy

E) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

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Crime analysts should recognize that among the qualities of successful investigators is:


A) Willingness to work short hours
B) The ability to use their hunches and intuition
C) Willingness to monitor their own use of inductive and deductive reasoning to try to avoid distortions and fallacies
D) The ability to become callous and cynical

E) A) and D)
F) C) and D)

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Among the duties or procedures utilized by the senior investigator are interviewing the victim again or interviewing other witnesses, conducting or supervising the neighborhood canvass, or _______.


A) Ordering the patrol officer to get coffee
B) Filing a report closing the case
C) Interrogating the suspect if he or she is in custody
D) Talking to the crowd

E) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

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Link analysis refers to ???______________ among people or organizations.


A) Probing into the intimacies
B) Recording gossip
C) Listening to gossip
D) Analyzing relationships

E) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

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To better appreciate the investigative process, it is useful for crime analysts to be aware of the essential qualities of a ______________.


A) Criminal investigator
B) Private eye
C) Police chief
D) Information technologist

E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

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The patrol officer responding to a crime must determine whether a tactical situation exists

A) True
B) False

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When the offender is unknown, the basic lead, in many instances, may come from the _______.


A) Victim
B) Jailhouse snitch
C) Neighborhood gossip
D) Anonymous tip

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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The premise of geographic profiling is that given a sufficient number of crimes, with adequate information for analysis, a ______________ of the area in which the offender's residence is located can be calculated.


A) Pushpin map
B) Roadmap
C) Probabilistic map
D) Major highway map

E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

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It is important that responding officers maintain control of the crime scene. This means, among other things, that the officers:


A) Make sure that the victim is safe and cared for and that the evidence is secured
B) Take down names of people take photos with cellphones
C) Issue an arrest warrant for the perpetrator
D) Start testing the evidence

E) All of the above
F) C) and D)

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There are any number of reports that an intelligence unit can produce for a police department; among the kinds of reports that an intelligence unit could provide for criminal investigators, perhaps the most important are criminal profiles, geographic profiles, time-event charts and ______________.


A) Weather reports
B) Link analysis
C) Lists of suspects
D) Phone directories

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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A time-event chart depicts in graphic form the ______________ of an individual's or a group's activities.


A) Chronology
B) Day-to-day analysis
C) Exact route
D) Diary

E) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

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