CHAPTER KEY TERMS - OTHER TERMS 4 Flashcards
LARCENY THEFT
THE UNLAWFUL TAKING, CARRYING, LEADING, OR RIDING AWAY OF PROPERTY FROM THE POSSESSION OF ANOTHER
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
International child abduction remedies act
A U.S. Federal law. Establishes procedures to implement The Hague convention on the civil aspects of international child abduction done at that Hague on October 25, 1980 and for other purposes.
International terrorism
Violent acts or acts that are a danger to human life that are a violation of the criminal law of the United States and any other state or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or Any state.
Interrogation
The systematic questioning of a person suspected of involvement in a crime for the purpose of obtaining a confession
Intimate or former intimate stalking
When a stalker and victim were married or divorced, current or former lovers, serious or causal sexual partners, or former sexual partners.
Investigative psychology
A new field that attempts to describe the actions of offenders and to develop an understanding of crimes
Involuntary manslaughter
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The unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethaought, either express or implied
Islamist
A set of ideologies holding that Islam is not only a religion but also a political system and that modern Muslims must return to their roots of their religion and unite politically
False confession
An admission of guilt in a crime in which the confessor is not responsible for the crime
Face sheet
An at a glance summary of the investigation
Facial composite
A graphical representation of an eyewitness’s memory of a face, as recorded by a composite artist
Fact witness
A witness who has personal knowledge or events pertaining to a case and can only testify to things he personally has observed
Family abduction
An abduction related to a domestic or custody dispute
Field interview card
Method of documenting information on the street
Federal kidnapping act
Following the historic Lindbergh kidnapping the US congress adopted a federal kidnapping statute - known as the federal kidnapping act.
Felony
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A category of crime that is of a more serious nature than a misdemeanor, usually punishable by more then a year in prison up to death penalty
Fence
A person who buys and sells stolen property with criminal intent
Fungible goods
Items such as tools, liquor, and clothing that are indistinguishable from other like them
Fugitive felon act
Unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. Though drawn as a penal statute , and therefore permitting prosecution by the federal government for its violation, the primary purpose of the fugitive felon act is to permit the federal government to assist in the location and apprehension of fugitives from state justice.
Frye test
A legal standard used to determine the admissibility of scientific evidence
Fraud
Theft by receipt
Fruit of the poisonous tree
A legal metaphor in the United States used to describe evidence that is obtained illegally
Flipping
A term used to describe an arrested person who chooses to work for the government in the capacity as an informant
Fleeing felon rule
A legal doctrine, no longer in effect , allowing police officers to shoot suspected felons.