What investigative steps should an investigator take when faced with a suspected case of battered child syndrome?
What will be an ideal response?
An investigator must do more than collect information about the currently reported injury. A full investigation requires interviewing possible witnesses about other injuries that the child may have suffered, obtaining the caretaker’s explanation for those injuries, and assessing the conclusions of medical personnel who may have seen the victim before.
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Which agency (or agencies) participates in the Uniform Crime Reporting system?
A) Only state law enforcement agencies B) Only the military police, under the Uniform Code of Military Justice C) Only local law enforcement agencies D) State and local law enforcement agencies
Physical evidence stolen during the commission of a crime is:
A) Transferred evidence. B) Chain of evidence. C) Fruits of the crime. D) Instruments of a crime.
Many police units use older more experienced police officers as undercover officers
a. True b. False
Black’s theory about the behavior of the criminal law:
a. is an attempt to apply legal realism and Freudian ideas to explain how criminal law is formed. b. is based primarily on psychological learning theories. c. argues that increases to certainty and severity of punishment could lower crime rates. d. predicts that street criminals will be prosecuted at higher rates than corporations regardless of the amount of harm caused. e. suggests that the law is formed through societal consensus about crime.