Midterm Exam Review

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Midterm Exam Review

• Chap 1 thru 10

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Things to Know

• Page 19 Follow up investigations
• Page 20 Crime Mapping
• Page 6 Investigators reasoning ability
  and what he/she must have
• Page 7 Which criminal penalties must
  investigators be familiar with?
• Page 8 The logical process of an investigation
  includes
• Page 10 An inference is?
• Page 11 Know the psychological attachment that an
  investigator as to the case
• Page 15 What should be done to any suspects at a
  crime scene?
• Page 14 How important is the initial info
  received at the crime scene
• Page 6 What is an investigation?
• Page 41 Name a disadvantage of using a
  photograph?
• Page 50 What does a crime scene sketch
  accomplish?
• Page 36 The basic purpose of using field notes
• Page 54 Know the basic types of crime scene
  sketches (measures taken from right angles)?

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Things to Know

• Page 40 The basic purpose of crime scene
  photography
• Page 41 Name a disadvantage of using photographs
• Page 50 Requirements for photographs to be
  admissible in court
• Page 40 Photos should be taken by officers when?
• Page 49 How do you indentify photographs
• Page 46 What is surveillance photography used
  for?
• Page 40 What are crime scene photos?
• Page 50-51 Know what a rough sketch is and how it
  is to be used
• Page 51 What type of paper is best used for
  sketches?
• Page 51 What is a rough sketch in relation to an
  investigation?
• Page 39 In order to take notes rapidly what must
  officers do?
• Page 82 Know how investigators should write
  reports from a grammar standpoint
• Page 69 Be familiar with the primary uses of a
  written report
• Page 71 Know the problems associated with police
  reports
• Page 72 What are the qualities of an effective
  police report
• Page 72 The disposition of the report is stated
  in what paragraph?

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Things to Know

• Page 98 The goal of a crime scene search for
  evidence is to discover evidence that helps to?
• Page 90 Investigators should know what in order
  to be able to conduct searches?
• Page 90 Name a situation in which a search is not
  legal?
• Page 91 The totality of the circumstances test?
• Page 92 A judge can issue a search warrant for
  items being sought by the police if the items
  are?
• Page 92 Searches conducted with a warrant are
  limited to what?
• Page 97 Officers may only search a passenger car
  when?
• Page 96 When police take custody of property the
  courts have rules that they can do what to it?
• Page 97 The inevitable-discovery doctrine
• Page 101 What can officers do with items in plain
  view?
• Page 103 How should officers treat the execution
  of a warrant?
• Page 103 Know the California v Greenwood case
• Page 127 Latent Fingerprints?
• Page 129 What are elimination prints?

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Things to Know

• Page 131 Fingerprints can indicate what?
• Page 125 What is the Daubert Standard?
• Page 118-119 What is Chain of Evidence?
• Page 133 DNA profiling is done using what?
• Page 140 Hair analysis can reveal?
• Page 133 Where is a genetic fingerprint obtained
  from?
• Page 126 Know which one is the most reliable
  identification technique?
• Page162 The goal of interviewing and
  interrogating?
• Page 175 The best place to interrogate a suspect
• Page 164 Know the demeanor of a suspect
• Page 164 How do investigators improve
  communications when questioning?
• Page 162 Questioning that occurs spontaneously on
  the street is called?
• Page 184 Polygraphs and their admissibility in
  court?
• Page 214 SWAT stands for?
• Page 192 What are the legal requirements to use a
  show-up?
• Page 217 When is exceptional force justified?

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Things to Know

• Page 200 Know what informants do
• Page 192-93 What is a field identification?
• Page 202 What does a live line-up require?
• Page 192 Field Identifications are also called?
• Page 205 Surveillance can be used to?
• Page 197 Racial Profiling?
• Page 220 Tennessee v Gardner states what?
• Page 205 Surveillance can be used for what other
  things?
• Page 245 Maximum time for rigor mortis
• Page 244 What does and does not assist in
  establishing the time of death?
• Page 247 Length of time a body will stay immersed
  in cold water?
• Page 257 A serial murderer kills how many
  victims?
• Page 251 Common indicator of suicide using a
  knife
• Page 245 What is a cadaveric spasm
• Page 241 1st priority at the crime scene?
• Page 251 Death by asphyxia can result from
• Page 251 Most stabbing deaths are considered what?

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Things to Know

• Page 235 Murder is classified as?
• Page 237 What is malicious intent?
• Page 245 When does a cadaveric spasm occur?
• Page 245 Lividity is what color when death is
  caused by carbon monoxide poisoning?
• Page 251 Know the indicators for when a death is
  not suicide?
• Page 252 Most hangings are what kinds of deaths
• Page 244 What is the postmortem cooling process
• Page 238 Death inquiries and the cause which is
  open to interpretation is called _________?
• Page 270 Simple assault is?
• Page 271 Know the elements of aggravated assault
• Page 275 What is an intimate partner?
• Page 271 Aggravated assault requires?
• Page 271 What is an overt act
• Page 271 What must the investigator prove when it
  comes to the 3 elements of aggravated assault.
• Page 271 Know aggravated assaults and the high
  probability of death.

8
Things to Know

• Page 301 Special challenges to sex crimes
• Page 298 Sex offenses include
• Page 300 The element of sexual assault that is
  most difficult to prove
• Page 306 Who should the interviewer in a sexual
  assault case be?
• Page 298 What is incest?
• Page 303 What does the evidence in a rape case
  show?
• Page 298 What is statutory rape?
• Page 296 Where do most sexual assaults occur?