How should an investigator avoid contaminating evidence?

What will be an ideal response?


To minimize contamination of a crime scene and the evidence within, cordon off the area and keep all unnecessary people, including police officers, outside the scene perimeter.

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Sentencing refers to a post-conviction stage of the criminal justice process. 2. Justice is a moral concept that is easy to define. 3. The determinate sentencing model prevailed most strongly under the so-called “medical model.” 4. Under indeterminate sentencing, offenders know how much time they will serve.

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Which of the following statements is true?

a. Defense attorneys will try to impeach the testimony of prosecution witnesses.
b. An officer who mishandles his or her testimony in court can be impeached from the investigation.
c. Any witness moving through the well can automatically be impeached by the judge.
d. A witness in court will be impeached if he or she does not look directly at the jury when testifying.

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Bud works at a Cheap Stuff Store from which, without authorization, he takes merchandise that he has not paid for home for his own use. This is

What will be an ideal response?

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Which of the following represent targeted victims surveys?

a. Bureau of Justice Statistics b. Uniform Crime reports c. National Crime Victimization Survey d. court records

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