List two factors that make it difficult for criminalists to compare glass samples.
What will be an ideal response?
Most glass evidence presented to the criminalist is either too fragmentary or too minute for the pieces to be physically reassembled or fitted together. In addition, the general chemical composition of various window glasses has so far been found to be relatively uniform among various manufacturers and thus offers no basis for identifying individual samples.
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Why is the body the most significant piece of evidence at the homicide scene?
What will be an ideal response?
Which is perhaps the most basic method of assessing the crime scene?
a. Photography b. Chemical identification c. Physical matching d. Measurement
Rehabilitation, incapacitation, and deterrence are:
a. mutually exclusive purposes of punishment. b. essential components of all punishment. c. accomplished only through incarceration. d. sometimes conflicting, sometimes complementary purposes of punishment.
Interviews with the officers revealed a common perception that prison management did not behave ethically and was not concerned about officer safety. The officers indicated that they eventually adopted the attitude that if management was not going to treat them properly, then they were no longer concerned about treating inmates ethically. This situation illustrates:
a. systemic abuse. b. "trickledown" abuse. c. informal misconduct. d. negligent abuse.