Which of the following examples does NOT explain criminal investigations as a Game?
a. The culprit drops his cigarette at the crime scene and therefore leaves his DNA behind.
b. Someone commits a burglary and forgets to erase fingerprints at the crime scene.
c. A subject does not see the surveillance cameras at a parking lot where he stole a car.
d. The subject was able to remove all evidence from the crime scene.
d. The subject was able to remove all evidence from the crime scene.
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“Ethnicity” is a cultural feature and refers to a person’s ______.
a. identification with a particular group b. primary language c. country of origin d. national identity
In the context of the rules of law enforcement, a search is:
A. a governmental intrusion on a citizen's reasonable expectation of privacy. B. the act of taking possession of a person or property by the government because of a violation of the law. C. a brief detention of a person by law enforcement agents for questioning. D. the act of apprehending a suspect for the purpose of detaining him or her on a criminal charge.
_______ refers to a form of thought or philosophy that developed during the Enlightenment of the 18th and 19th centuries which emphasized the social world contained a “natural” order that could be discovered by the scientific method.
a. the classical school b. modern c. postmodernism d. positivism
A police officer arrested a motorist for not wearing a seatbelt, a violation of the law of the state as well as a violation of a local misdemeanor ordinance. [Local law allowed either an arrest or the issuance of a citation
] If a motorist were to be convicted, the violation involved only a monetary fine and could not result in any incarceration. Under the circumstances, the Fourth Amendment requirement of reasonableness A) has been violated where the state and local law allowed an unreasonable amount of discretion to the police officer concerning whether to arrest or to issue a citation. B) has been violated because common sense would dictate that an arrest for a minor seatbelt violation must be construed as an unreasonable use of governmental authority. C) has not been violated where probable cause to arrest existed. D) has been violated since any custody for an offense that could only result in a fine does not give rise to probable cause to arrest and would be unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment. E) none of the above responses is a correct response.