F & CSI Q 2 and Chapter 10

Deaths are classified by manner as:

Natural, accidental, suicide, homicide (noncriminal & criminal), and undetermined

Which of the following has proved to be effective and best suited to deal with the continuous cycle of domestic violence

Specialized units within police departments and prosecutors' offices

The study of poisons can determine the type of poison, the amount ingested, the approximate time ingested, and the effect on the body. This field is referred to as:

Toxicology

The force necessary to overcome resistance offered during an arrest is referred to as:

Reasonable force

Wiretaps are legal when there is probable cause, and they are:

Authorized by a court

An unlawful attack by one person on another in order to inflict severe bodily injury, which often involves the use of a dangerous weapon and is a felony, is commonly called:

Aggravated assault

Unfortunately, the U.S. Justice Department does not have a national program to help law enforcement agencies, medical examiners, and others identify missing persons who have been murdered or have died of other causes

False

Elder abuse is:

severely underreported

Premediation is a requirement in which type of case?

First-degree murder

Making a legal arrest, gaining information for warrants, or even preventing crime can all be the result of:

Entrapment

Which of the following characteristics can assist in establishing time of death?

Rigor mortis

What must be established before an arrest can be made?

Probable cause

As far back as Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, the courts authorized court-ordered electronic surveillance of organized crime figures

True

What term is used to describe a criminal act that was committed when the suspect suddenly became emotional, thus precluding premeditation?

Heat of passion

Which of the following is a form of elder abuse?

Self-neglect

All murders are homicides

True

An act toward the commission of a crime that is more complete than a threat or gesture is referred to as what type of act?

Overt

The majority of stalking cases are categorized as:

Intimate or former intimate partner stalking

What term is used to describe bizarre and aggressive behavior, paranoia, panic, violence, hyperthermia, and unexpected physical strength?

Excited delirium

Of the three elements included in the crime of aggravated assault, investigators must prove:

Only one

Florida v. Riley (1989) approved warrantless aerial surveillance, noting that:

There should be no reasonable expectation of privacy from the skies above

A suspect has the right to a lawyer if a photographic lineup is used:

False

Physical evidence that indicates the severity of an assault may include which of the following?

Overturned furniture

Staging refers to:

Both the positioning of the victim's body and the manipulation of the scene around the victim's body

The cycle of violence involves:

tension-building, the battering episode and the honeymoon

Which 1985 court case eliminated the "fleeing-felon rule," banning law enforcement officers from shooting to kill a fleeing felon unless an imminent danger to life exists?

Tennessee v. Garner

The postmortem cooling process of the body is called:

Algor mortis

Noncriminal homicide includes:

justifiable homicide

What method has been used with sexual offenders in 20 states amid widespread controversy?

Civil commitment

Acknowledging the severe and dangerous nature of drug-assisted sexual assaults, the Drug-Induced Rape Prevention and Punishment Act, signed in 1996, allows courts to impose prison sentences on anyone who distributes an illicit drug to someone intending to commit sexual assault for up to:

20 years

A common "date rape" drug is:

Rohypnol

The Supreme Court has clarified its limitation on civil commitments, saying that there must be:

proof of an offender's serious difficulty in controlling his behavior

In April 1998, what did the Supreme Court decide in regard to constitutional challenges that claimed that the Sexual Offender Registration and Notification Act's notification requirements represented an unconstitutional added punishment?

They rejected the argument and retained the laws

Sexual intercourse between family members or close relatives is known as:

incest

The key distinction between human trafficking and smuggling lies in:

the individual's freedom of choice

What type of reporting allows sexual assault victims to retain their anonymity and confidentiality while sharing critical information with law enforcement, and also permits victims to gather legal information from law enforcement without having to commit immediately to an investigation?

blind reporting

Which of the following is a sex offense?

bigamy

In what type of interview do you carefully question the victim about the rapist's behavior, analyze the behavior to ascertain the motivation underlying the assault, and then compile a profile of the individual likely to have committed the crime?

behavior-oriented interview

In a sexual assault case, it is best that the interviewer of the victim:

be a police officer with proper training and attitude

The element of sexual assault most difficult to prove in court is:

that the act was committed without the consent of the victim

Which law finally required states to release any relevant information about registered sex offenders necessary to maintain and protect public safety, and allowed disclosure of information collected under a state registration program for any purpose permitted under the laws of the state?

Megan's Law

When arriving at the scene of a rape case, officers should look for:

Stained or torn clothing

The largest number of people illegally trafficked into the United States are from

East Asia and the Pacific

Rapists are often divided into two categories for motivation: ____ rapists and ____ rapists.

anger;power

When investigating the scene of a sexual assault, it is best to set up a command center away from the scene of the crime.

True

Sexual penetration occurs with any intrusion, however slight, of any part of a person's body or any object manipulated or inserted in the victim's body.

True

A "date rape" drug that can be found in an odorless, colorless liquid form or as a pill or white powder and that has psychological effects including confusion, depression, anxiety, sleeplessness, drug craving, and paranoia is called MDMA or

Ecstasy

A "date rape" drug that is found in a white powder form and that can cause hallucinations, lost sense of time and identity, distorted perceptions of sight and sound, feeling out of control, impaired motor function, breathing problems, convulsions, vomiting, out-of-body experiences, memory problems, a dream-like feeling, numbness, and loss of coordination is:

Ketamine

The pleasure of complete domination over another person is what drives the:

sadist

The main side effect of Rohypnol is:

amnesia

A victim who consents to a sexual act but who has an emotional disturbance, mental illness, or retardation, or who is attacked while on drugs or unconscious, cannot provide "true consent."

True

A particularly difficult type of sexual assault is date rape, sometimes called:

acquaintance rape

Certain offenders are likely to be obsessed with keeping trophies and recordings of their assaults, and therefore any search warrant applications in such cases should include photographs, records, scripts, letters, diaries, audiotapes, videotapes, and newspaper reports of the crime. These offenders are called:

Sexual Sadists