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Person’s degree of risk of being sued; any person acting under the authority of law who violates another person’s constitutional rights can be sued.
What is Civil Liability?
Philosophy that the police must work with the community through partnerships and problem solving to address problems of crime and disorder; a belief that by working together, the police and the community can accomplish what neither can accomplish alone.
What is Community Policing?
Act or omission forbidden by law and punishable by a fine, imprisonment, or even death; crimes and their penalties are established and defined by state and federal statutes and local ordinances.
What is Crime?
Focuses on the location of crimes—the hot spots where most crimes occur—rather than on the criminal.
The process of discovering, collecting, preparing, identifying, and presenting evidence to determine what happened and who is responsible.
What is Criminal Investigation?
Legislative act relating to crime and its punishment.
What is Criminal Statute?
A person who searches for, collects, and preserves physical evidence in the investigations of crime and suspected criminals; also called a crime scene technician, examiner or investigator criminalistics: specialists trained in recording, identifying, and interpreting the minutiae (minute details) of physical evidence.
What is Criminalist?
Application of the physical sciences and their technology to examining physical evidence of crimes; includes the branch of criminalistics.
What is Forensic Science?
Geographic areas with a higher incidence rate of criminal activity.
What is Hot Spots?
Going from the generalization and establishing it by gathering specific facts.
What is Inductive Reasoning?
A “sudden knowing” without any conscious reasoning or apparent logic; based on knowledge and experience or what is commonly called street sense; a “gut feeling” developed by experience.
What is Intuition?
To observe or study closely; to inquire into something systematically in a search for truthful information.
What is Investigate?
Those crucial to resolving criminal investigations.
What is Solvability Factors?
Avenues bearing clues or potential sources of information relevant to solving a crime.
What is Leads?
Basic forensic theory that objects that come in contact with each other always transfer material, however minute, to each other.
What is Locard's Principle of Exchange?
Crime or offense that is less serious than a felony and is punishable by a fine or imprisonment of as long as one year in an institution other than a penitentiary.
What is Misdemeanor?
Skilled in interacting across gender, ethnic, generational, social, and political group lines.
What is Culturally Adroit?
Process that uses powerful analytical tools to quickly and thoroughly explore mountains of data to discover new patterns or confirm suspected patterns or trends.
What is Data Mining?
A logical process in which a conclusion follows from specific facts; a reconstructive process based on specific pieces of evidence to establish proof that a suspect is guilty of an offense.
What is Deductive Reasoning?
Specific conditions that must occur for an act to be called a specific kind of crime.
What is Elements of the Crime?
Evidence favorable to the accused that would clear the accused of blame; for example, having a blood type different from that found at a homicide.
What is Exculpatory Evidence?
Serious crime such as homicide, aggravated assault, or robbery; generally punishable by death or imprisonment of more than one year in a penitentiary.
What is Felony?
Crime or offense that is less serious than a felony and is punishable by a fine or imprisonment of as long as one year in an institution other than a penitentiary.
Act of the legislative body of a municipality or county relating to all the rules governing the municipality or county, including misdemeanor crimes.
What is Ordinance?
Spontaneous statements made at the time a crime is committed and closely related to actions involved in the crime; considered more truthful than later, planned responses.