List and describe the two phases in a criminalist’s scheme of action for identifying a drug.

What will be an ideal response?


The first phase is to run screening tests to reduce the number of possible drugs to a small and manageable number. The second phase of the analysis involves employing specific tests, or confirmations, to pinpoint and confirm the drug’s identity.

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Extradition is the automatic return of an individual accused of a crime in the United States who has fled the country and been found on foreign soil.

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

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In Mempa v. Rhay the U.S. Supreme Court ruled which of the following in regards to probation? a. Probationers were entitled to an attorney during the probation revocation process b. Probations were not entitled to an attorney during the probation revocation process. c. Probations were entitled to an attorney during the probation revocation process only if the potential outcome was

incarceration. d. Probations were entitled to a hearing before and uninterested party for the probation revocation process.

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Correctional administrators can generally predict future success for specific offenders engaged in evidence-based rehabilitation programs

a. True b. False

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Match the organized crime group to its description

1. Eurasian criminal enterprises a. Include both traditional and nontraditional criminal enterprises 2. Balkan criminal enterprises b. Developed quickly in recent decades due to advances in communication technology and the globalization of the world’s economies 3. Asian criminal enterprises c. Emerged in the West when Refuseniks were permitted to immigrate to the U.S. 4. African criminal enterprises d. Some but not all have nexus to terror 5. Middle Eastern criminal enterprises e. Organization is based on a clanlike structure grouped around central leaders

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