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Pearson Education, Inc.Criminal Investigation, (Justice Series) 3e Update, (Lyman) Chapter 1 Foundations of Criminal Investigation 1.1 Multiple Choice Questions 1) Thief catchers were hired during the crime wave in England during the 18th and 19th
centuries and were identified as:
- Hirelings
- Profiteers
- Rent a cops
- Bobbies
Answer: A
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Objective: Explain the history of criminal investigation.
Level: Basic
2) The Bow Street Runners were established by:
- Sir Robert Peel
- Henry Fielding
- Frances Smith
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Answer: B
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Objective: Explain the history of criminal investigation.
Level: Basic
3) England’s first paid, full-time police force, the London Metropolitan Police Department, was
named after:
- Sir Robert Peel
- Henry Fielding
- Frances Smith
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Answer: A
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Objective: Explain the history of criminal investigation.
Level: Basic
4) Which of the following U.S. cities established the first professional police force?
- Boston
- New York
- Philadelphia
- Washington, D.C.
Answer: A
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Objective: Explain the history of criminal investigation.
Level: Basic
5) The first criminal investigation agency in the United States was the:
- William j. Burns Detective Agency
- Pinkerton National Detective Agency
- United States Investigative Agency
- Private Eye Investigative Agency
Answer: B
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Objective: Explain the history of criminal investigation.
Level: Basic
6) Thomas Byrnes, the chief detective of New York City, at 9:00 a.m. marched all of the criminals who had been arrested the previous 24 hours before his detectives. This became
known as the:
- Parade of Criminals
- Byrnes’ Parade of Offenders
- Mulberry Street Morning Parade
- 12
th Precinct Parade
Answer: C
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Objective: Explain the history of criminal investigation.
Level: Basic
7) The single most significant development in criminal investigation in the United States was the establishment of the ________ in 1924.
- Secret Service
- Border Patrol
C) DEA
D) FBI
Answer: D
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Objective: Explain the history of criminal investigation.
Level: Basic
8) The FBI’s early contributions included:
- The National Academy
- A crime laboratory that was available to state and local police
- The National Crime Information Center (NCIC)
- All of the above
Answer: D
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Objective: Explain the history of criminal investigation.
Level: Intermediate
9) August Vollmer’s contribution to policing included which of the following?
- World’s first police school
- First police chief to require officers to get a college degree
- Hiring the first African-American and female officer
- All of the above
Answer: D
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Objective: Explain the history of criminal investigation.
Level: Intermediate
10) To date, all crime scenes are searched based on Edmund Locard’s principle, which states:
- When perpetrators come into contact with the scene, they will leave something of
- Always secure the crime scene before anything is touched
- There is always evidence at a crime scene
- Both B and C
themselves and take something from the scene
Answer: A
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Objective: Explain the history of criminal investigation.
Level: Intermediate
11) The Bertillon system, also known as anthropometry, was based on:
- The belief that no two humans had the same fingerprints
- The idea that certain aspects of the human body remained the same after a person reached
- The idea that no two humans shared the same DNA
- All of the above
a full physical maturity
Answer: B
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Objective: Explain the history of criminal investigation.
Level: Basic
12) ________ is concerned with determining the cause of death by examination of a corpse.
- Forensic serology
- Forensic oncology
- Forensic entomology
- Forensic pathology
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Answer: D
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Objective: Identify how scientific advancements affected the process of criminal investigation.
Level: Basic
13) Which of the following is a manner of death?
- Accidental
- Natural
- Drowning
- All of the above
Answer: D
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Objective: Identify how scientific advancements affected the process of criminal investigation.
Level: Basic
14) Which of the following is a responsibility of a pathologist?
- Examine and document wounds and injuries
- Collect and examine tissue specimens under the microscope
- Serve as an expert witness in civil or criminal cases
- All of the above
Answer: D
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Objective: Identify how scientific advancements affected the process of criminal investigation.
Level: Basic
15) In the late 1970s, the National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice awarded a grant to the RAND Corporation to undertake a nationwide study of criminal investigations by police agencies in major U.S. cities. Which of the statements below identify a major recommendation of this study?
- Less serious crimes, such as drug violations, gambling, and prostitution, are major causes
- Patrol officers should be afforded greater responsibilities in conducting preliminary
- There should be less emphasis on increased forensic resources for processing latent
- Crimes that require special investigative abilities should be handled by patrol officers and
of serious crimes such as murder, rape, and robbery.
investigations, providing greater case-screening capabilities for investigators while eliminating redundancy.
fingerprints and more emphasis on intelligence gathering.
thus agencies should eliminate specialized investigators.
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