Crimes Against Persons

Question 1

An unlawful attack by one person upon another wherein the offender uses a weapon or displays it in a threatening manner, or the victim suffers obvious severe or aggravated bodily injury involving apparent broken bones, loss of teeth, possible internal injury, severe lacerations, or loss of consciousness.

Answer 1

Aggravated Assault

Question 2

An unlawful physical attack by one person upon another where neither the offender displays a weapon, nor the victim suffers obvious severe or aggravated bodily injury involving apparent broken bones, loss of teeth, possible internal injury, severe laceration, or loss of consciousness.

Answer 2

Simple Assault

Question 3

To unlawfully place another person in reasonable fear of bodily harm through the use of threatening words and/or other conduct, but without displaying a weapon or subjecting the victim to actual physical attack.

Answer 3

Intimidation

Question 4

The killing of one human being by another

Answer 4

Homicide Offenses

Question 5

The willful (non-negligent) killing of one human being by another.

Answer 5

Murder & Non-Negligent Manslaughter

Question 6

The killing of another person through negligence.

Answer 6

Negligent Manslaughter

Question 7

The killing of a perpetrator of a serious criminal offense by a peace officer in the line of duty; or the killing, during the commission of a serious criminal offense, of the perpetrator by a private individual.

Answer 7

Justifiable Homicide

Question 8

The unlawful seizure, transportation, and/or detention of a person against his/her will, and of a minor without the consent of his/her custodial parents or legal guardian.

Answer 8

Kidnapping/Abduction

Question 9

The carnal knowledge of a person, forcibly and/or against the person’s will where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity (or because of his/her youth).

Answer 9

Forcible Rape

Question 10

Oral or anal sexual intercourse with another person, forcibly and/or against that person’s will; or not forcibly or against the person’s will where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her youth or because of a mental or physical incapacity.

Answer 10

Forcible Sodomy

Question 11

To use an object or instrument to unlawfully penetrate, however slightly, the genitalia or anal opening of the body of another person, forcibly and/or against that person’s will; or not forcibly or against that person’s will where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of age or mental or physical incapacity.

Answer 11

Sexual Assault with an Object

Question 12

The touching of the private parts of another person for the purpose of sexual gratification, forcibly and/or against that person’s will; or not forcibly or against that person’s will where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of age or mental incapacity.

Answer 12

Forcible Fondling

Question 13

Non-forcible sexual intercourse between persons who are related to each other within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law.

Answer 13

Incest

Question 14

Non-forcible sexual intercourse with a person who is under the statutory age of consent.

Answer 14

Statutory Rape

Question 15

This crime involves the offering or solicitation of sexual acts for money or other items of value.

Answer 15

Prostitution/Solicitation

Question 16

By examining the insect population on the body and the evolving larval states, forensic scientists can approximate the number of days that the subject has been deceased.

Answer 16

True

Question 17

The only reason women do not report rape to the police is because they are too embarrassed.

Answer 17

False

Question 18

In a missing child case, the victim’s bedroom is one of the first places to search.

Answer 18

True

Question 19

Before making a missing person’s report, you must wait 24 hours, to give them a chance to get home.

Answer 19

False

Question 20

Child sexual abuse involves any sexual touching of the child’s body.

Answer 20

True

Question 21

Auto-erotic deaths are usually suicide.

Answer 21

False

Question 22

Robbery generally consists of stealing the personal property of another, from their person or in their presence against their will by violence, or intimidation or threat of force.

Answer 22

True

Question 23

Vitreous fluid can help determine the time of death.

Answer 23

True

Question 24

An injury by an instrument or weapon with a sharp cutting edge is known as incised wound.

Answer 24

True

Question 25

The four types of strangulation are hanging, throttling, the sleeper-hold and garroting.

Answer 25

True

Question 26

Collecting hair in a drug rape case can immediately determine GHB content.

Answer 26

False

Question 27

The gunshot wound can determine the following:
-> type of ammunition
-> type of weapon
-> the distance the gunman was in relation to the victim
-> bullet’s direction and trajectory

Answer 27

True

Question 28

Some characteristics of strangulation are: voice changes, difficulty swallowing, petechiae, and dizziness.

Answer 28

True

Question 29

There’s no evidentiary value for collecting urine from a victim in a drug rape case.

Answer 29

False

Question 30

Lacerations are very deep incisions.

Answer 30

False

Question 31

The toxicology can only be determined from stomach contents.

Answer 31

False

Question 32

According to one study by Dr. Eugene Kanin, the following are three reasons that women have for making a false sexual assault report: providing an alibi, a means of gaining revenge and a platform for seeking attention.

Answer 32

True

Question 33

Amber alerts should only be used in cases of runaways.

Answer 33

False

Question 34

Select the best answer for the increase in carjackings.

Answer 34

-> improved security devices on cars make it harder to steal a car
-> to rapidly escape the scene of a crime
-> to steal an expensive or specific make of vehicle to sell in another country or for parts in a chop shop
> all of the above***

Question 35

Ketamine can cause the following problems: dream-like feeling, numbness, impaired motor function, and a lost sense of time and identity.

Answer 35

True