Exam 7: Crime Detection and Investigation

Motor Vehicle thefts are less likely to be cleared by arrest than murders

Describe the various stages of the reactive criminal investigation process.

PRAXIS is an electronic database operated by the FBI that allows federal, state, and local crime laboratories to share DNA profiles electronically.

Cold cases are usually reopened due to the availability of new evidence or because of new witnesses.

Any questioning that is intended to produce information regarding a particular crime or regarding a person believed responsible for a crime is called a(n) ______.

For a crime to be considered solved, a criminal conviction is necessary.

When investigators pose as minors in chat rooms on the Internet to identify adults who attempt to solicit sex from minors, it is an example of a(n) ______.

Explain the concept of entrapment and how investigators may work to establish predisposition on the part of the suspect.

Criminal investigations are conducted in order to discover evidence.

______ evidence is evidence that tends to exclude or eliminate someone from consideration as a suspect.

The circumstances of a crime often influence the amount and type of evidence produced during the crime

If a suspect has an alibi, it is an example of ______ evidence.

When a suspect's physical characteristics match those of a perpetrator's description, it is an example of exculpatory evidence.

______ is most likely to be cleared by arrest; ______ is the least likely.

Identify and discuss the three goals that have been associated with the criminal investigation process.

Explain DNA and evaluate the role DNA evidence plays in criminal investigations.

DNA evidence may be used as exculpatory evidence.

An example of digital evidence in an investigation is ______.

Reactive investigations are the traditional way in which the police become involved in the investigation of crime.

______ evidence is evidence that tends to include or incriminate a person as a perpetrator.