Describe how a crime can be cleared for exceptional means. How many of these criteria must be met?
What will be an ideal response?
In order for a crime to be cleared by exceptional means, all four of the following criteria must be met: (1) The offender has been identified. (2) The agency has gathered enough evidence to support an arrest. (3) The offender’s exact location is identified. (4) The agency encountered a situation outside of its control that prohibited arresting the offender.
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a. China. b. Japan. c. Thailand. d. Korea.
The first critical step in crime scene investigation is securing and isolating the crime scene
a. True b. False
A study on self-reported alcohol use had consistent results when asking the same college students the same questions at different time periods. However, it has been found that many college students who drink heavily do not report their alcohol use truthfully. As a result, the measures used to gauge self-reported alcohol use was reliable, but not valid. Which type of reliability method was used to obtain the consistency of the measures?
A. test-retest B. interitem C. interrater D. split-halves
Which of the following is an example of conceptual integration?
a. Colvin and colleagues’ social support and coercion theory b. Elliot and associates’ strain-control paradigm c. Agnew’s general strain theory d. Braithwaite’s reintegrative shaming theory e. Hagan’s power control theory