CHAPTER KEY TERMS - OTHER TERMS 4 Flashcards
LARCENY THEFT
THE UNLAWFUL TAKING, CARRYING, LEADING, OR RIDING AWAY OF PROPERTY FROM THE POSSESSION OF ANOTHER
LABELING
CLASSIFYING A MISSING CHILD CASE
LASTNE EVIDENCE
EVIDENCE THAT IS NOT READILY VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
LATENT FINGERPRINTS
FINGERPRINTS THAT ARE NONVISIBLE UNLESS DEVELOPED THROUGH A FINGERPRINT LIFTING PROCSS
LATENT PRINTS
IMPRESSIONS PRODUCED BY THE RIDGED SKIN ON HUMAN FINGERS, PALMS, AND SOLES OF THE FEET.
Lay witness
Witnesses who are not expert witnesses
Lineup
The police practice of allowing witness’s witnesses or victims to view several suspects for identification purposes
Link analysis
A charting technique designed to show relationships between individuals and organizations using a graphic visual design
Lividity
A blood stain on the body of a deceased person
Loansharking
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Usurious loans made to people for exorbitant interest rates, whose payment is enforced by the use of violence
Locard exchange principle
Holds that the perpetrator of a crime will bring something into the crime scene and leave with something from it, and that both can be used as forensic evidence
Logic bomb
A set of instructions inserted in a computer program that looks for specific errors in a computers normal functioning
London metropolitan police
England’s first paid, full time police force, so sitting of about 1,000 uniformed officers
Identity theft
A form of stealing someone’s identity in which someone pretends to be someone else by assuming that persons identity, typically in order to access resources or obtain credit and other benefits in that persons name
Incest
Sexual relations between children and their parents
Indirect evidence
Evidence that tends to incriminate a person without offering conclusive proof
Inductive reasoning
Also know as induction, is a kind or reasoning that constructs or evaluates general propositions that are derived from specific examples
Inevitable discovery doctrine
A legal doctrine stating that illegally seized evidence is admissible in court provided that eventually it would have been discovered anyway
Infiltration
An attempt to penetrate a group or organization in a covert manner
Informant
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Anyone who provides information of an investigative nature to law enforcement authorities
Inside team
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A surveillance team responsible for briefing officers concerning their actions if a crime occurs
Initial page
An at a glance summary of an investigation
Integrated automated fingerprint identification system (IAFIS)
A national automated fingerprint identification and criminal history system maintained by the federal bureau of investigation. IAFIS provides automated fingerprint search capabilities, latent searching capability, electronic image storage, and electronic exchange of fingerprints.
Intelligence gathering
The covert process of gathering information on criminal activity