Discuss the physical evidence that an investigator should consider when investigating cybercrime.

What will be an ideal response?


Evidence related to computer-assisted crimes and cybercrimes is subject to the same fundamentals of crime processing that were discussed earlier. Important evidence may be associated with many items, including computer notebooks and laptops, desktops, rack systems, and main frames, as well as external hard drives, printers, scanners, compact disks, flash drives, memory card readers, web cameras, and wireless access points and network servers. The existence of a wireless network should alert investigators to the possibility that evidence may also be located on devices located away from the primary crime scene, such as in another room or a garage. Search warrants may be issued to cover both the seizure of the targeted computers and peripherals and the actual digital forensic examination of them, or separate search warrants may be used.

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A criminal is more likely to be deterred by seeing a police officer with handcuffs and a radio than through the passage of a new law increasing penalties

a. True b. False

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_________refers to whether evidence is consequential to the case

Fill in the blank with correct word.

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The military character of police departments is illustrated by the _______________according to ranks--officer, commander, sergeant, lieutenant, captain, major, and chief

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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Law is said to be a body of specific rules regarding human conduct, which have been promulgated by political authority, which apply uniformly to all members of the classes to which the rules refer, and which are enforced by punishment administered by the

state. Identify and explain each of the general characteristics of law as found in this definition. What will be an ideal response?

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