Chapter 8 Criminal Investigation Flashcards
A judge’s order during a court proceeding that forbids all witnesses from discussing any aspect of a case with anyone but the involved attorney.
Rule of sequestration
Relevant evidence tending to prove or disprove a material fact, with numerous exceptions specified.
Admissible evidence
Taking possession of or carrying away of merchandise, money, or negotiable instruments; altering or removing a label or price tag; transferring merchandise from one container to another of lower price; or removing a shopping cart with intent to deprive the merchant of possession, use, benefit or full retail value.
Retail theft
A door-to-door inquiry of all possible sources of information for a given area.
Canvass
A person 18 years of age or older whose ability to perform normal activities of daily living or to provide for his or her own care or protection is impaired due to mental, emotional, sensory, long-term physical, or developmental disability or dysfunction, brain damage, or the infirmities of aging.
Vulnerable adult
Any willful or threatened act by a caregiver that significantly impairs or is likely to impair a vulnerable adult’s physical, mental, or emotional health significantly.
Abuse of disabled adult or elderly person
Altering, forging, or counterfeiting a public record, certificate, legal document, bill of exchange or promissory note, ect., with the intent to injure or defraud someone.
Forgery
Occurs when a caregiver fails or omits to provide child with the care, supervision, and services necessary to maintain the child’s physical and mental health.
Child neglect
Not a specific crime but actions that include an assault, aggravated assault, battery, aggravated battery, sexual assault, sexual
Domestic violence
A person, such as a relative, court-appointed or voluntary guardian, adult household member, neighbor, health care provider, or employee or volunteer or facilities, who has been entrusted with or has assumed responsibility for the care or the property of a disabled adult or elderly person.
Caregiver
The intentional infliction of physical or mental injury upon a child.
Child abuse
An offense against a person for the purpose of subjection to voluntary servitude, peonage, debt, bondage, slavery, or commercial sex.
Trafficking
An act of theft in which a person wrongfully takes money or other property entrusted to him or her for safekeeping and uses it for her own personal gain.
Embezzlement
A Latin term meaning “the mode of operating” or MO and referring to how someone does something which is usually repetitive in nature.
Modus Operandi
When a law enforcement officer induces or causes a suspect to commit a crime so that the officer may then arrest the suspect; can be used as a legal defense.
Entrapment
