CSI Book

Question 1

“Father of criminal investigation”
Founded first private investigator agency.
Database of 30,000 know offenders in 1826

Answer 1

Eugene Vidocq

Question 2

Three distinct periods of American Criminal Investigation

Answer 2

Prescientific period
Scientific period
Technological period

Question 3

First and oldest federal law enforcement agency in the United States

Answer 3

US Marshal service

Question 4

The first legal requirement that must be satisfied in order for a criminal investigation to proceed, is determining the ______ (Latin for body of crime) of a suspected criminal activity.

Answer 4

Corpus delicti

Question 5

The crime elements require both an act on the part of the suspect and a mental state. The act requirement is referred to in legal terms as _______.

Answer 5

Actus reus

Question 6

Evidence to suggest the validity and reliability of other types of evidence. For example, a suspect claims that he was nowhere near the crime scene wanna murder occurred. He provided a credit card receipt from a motel room to cooperate his alibi that he was out of town during the date and time of the murder.

A. cumulative evidence
B. Corroborative evidence
C. Direct evidence
D. Circumstantial evidence.

Answer 6

B. Corroborative evidence

Question 7

Evidence that is easily perishable or destroyed

Answer 7

Transient evidence

Question 8

Taking photographs of certain impression evidence; namely, foot prints and tire tracks and dirt send mud carpet, or Dusty surfaces should be taken in_________.

Answer 8

Black and white film and oblique lighting

Question 9

Crime scene sketches

Birds Eye cross projection is for?

Answer 9

Most commonly used to depict ground level areas such as flooring space and provides 2 dimensional view.

Question 10

Crime scene sketch

Two dimensional perspective SIDE VIEW

Answer 10

Elevated perspective

Question 11

Taking crime scene measurements:

This method is best used in indoor crime scenes and requires the identification of two fixed adjacent points within the crime scene to create a horizontal and vertical axis.

A. Baseline coordinates
B. Rectangular coordinates
C. Triangulation
D. Polar coordinates

Answer 11

B. Rectangular

Question 12

What individual pieces of evidence have in common are called:

Answer 12

Class characteristics

Question 13

At least ___ pieces of class evidence and ___ piece of individualized evidence = identification

Answer 13

2 class + 1 individual

Question 14

Iodine fuming

Answer 14

Works well on paper products.
Turns from clear to brown.
Photo before it turns clear again

Question 15

Ninhydrin

Answer 15

Causes latent print to turn bluish purple for 2-3 hrs
Works good on lotus surfaces

Question 16

Silver nitrate

Answer 16

Expose to sunlight or UV for 10 min produces yellowish then gray/ black print.
Should be used as last resort

Question 17

Super glue fuming (cyanoacrylate)

Answer 17

White visible appearance
Can be enhanced by other chemicals

Question 18

CSI types of intelligence.

What type of intelligence is used to gather information within a narrow time frame to identify offenders and their targets?

A Tactical intelligence
B Strategic intelligence
C Evidential Intelligence
D Operational Intelligence

Answer 18

A tactical intelligence

Question 19

Types of intelligence

What type of intelligence is used for post-arrest activities such as prosecuting and convicting offenders?

A tactical intelligence
B strategic intelligence
C evidential intelligence
D operational intelligence

Answer 19

A tactical intelligence

Question 20

Types of intelligence

What type of intelligence focuses on analyzing organized crime networks and terrorist groups?

A tactical intelligence
B Strategic intelligence
C Evidential intelligence
D operational intelligence

Answer 20

D operational intelligence

Question 21

Types of intelligence

What type of intelligence focuses on specific large scale criminal activities over an extended time period for purposes of gathering more detailed intelligence on specific criminal activities, offenders and their targets?

A tactical intelligence
B strategic intelligence
C evidential intelligence
D operational intelligence

Answer 21

D operational intelligence

Question 22

Types of intelligence

What is the primary goal for strategic intelligence?

A gathering information derived from known specific pieces of evidence?
B use intelligence analyses to implement short term tactical enforcement strategies?
C Developing a long term big picture of a particular crime problem?
D reduce criminal organizations to their basic membership structure or cells?

Answer 22

C developing a long term big picture of a particular crime problem.

Question 23

CSI ch 5

_____ assumes that certain involuntary verbal reactions from suspects as well as body and eye movements can be used to identify one suspects are being deceptive during an interrogation session.

A. Behavioral analysis
B. Lie detection
C. Interrogation profiling
D. Neuro linguistic programming (NLP)

Answer 23

D. NLP

Question 24

CSI chapter 9

FBI has __ classifications for homicide

A) 3
B) 4
C) 5
D) 6

Answer 24

D 6

Question 25

CSI chapter 9

A single homicide event involving two or more locations and no emotional cooling off period between the murders is classified as

A) double homicide
B) mass murder
C) spree murder
D) serial murder

Answer 25

C) spree murder

Question 26

Mass murder is classified as _____ victims killed at one time and one location.

A) 3
B) 3 or more
C) 4
D) 4 or more

Answer 26

D 4 or more

Question 27

Pen trap devices

Answer 27

Does not require probable cause
Good for 60 days
Mainly phone activity
(Some email)
Does not allow to monitor CONTENT

Question 28

Wiretapping

Answer 28

Good for30 days
Based on PC
Targets are notified at the end