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The process of discovering, collecting, preparing, identifying, and presenting evidence to determine what happened and who is responsible when a crime has occurred.
What is Criminal Investigation
100
The information-gathering activity of police officers that involves the direct questioning of suspects.
What is Interrogation
100
The elected chief officer of a county law enforcement agency. The sheriff is usually responsible for law enforcement in unincorporated areas and for the operation of the county jail.
What is Sheriff
100
Manipulative actions by police interviewers, designed to pressure suspects to divulge information, that are based on subtle forms of intimidation and control.
What is Psychological Manipulation
100
The unlawful, intentional inflicting, or attempted or threatened inflicting, of serious injury upon the person of another
What is Aggravated assault
200
An expert trained in the use of forensics techniques, such as gathering DNA evidence, collecting fingerprints, photography, sketching, and interviewing witnesses.
What is Crime Scene Investigator
200
The tactics used by police interviewers that fall short of physical abuse but that nonetheless pressure suspects to divulge information.
What is Inherent Coercion
200
A city- or town-based law enforcement agency; also known as local police.
What is Municipal Police Department
200
The advisement of rights due criminal suspects by the police before questioning begins.
What is Miranda Warnings
200
The burning or attempted burning of property, with or without the intent to defraud.
What is arson
300
Information compiled, analyzed, and/or disseminated in an effort to anticipate, prevent, or monitor criminal activity
What is Criminal Intelligence
300
The act of taking an adult or juvenile into physical custody by authority of law for the purpose of charging the person with a criminal offense, a delinquent act, or a status offense, terminating with the recording of a specific offense. Technically, an arrest occurs whenever a law enforcement officer curtails a person's freedom to leave.
What is Arrest
300
All of the activities undertaken by a police officer who responds to the scene of a crime, including determining whether a crime has occurred, securing the crime scene, and preserving evidence.
What is Preliminary Investigation
300
A search that occurs in the suspect's absence and without his or her prior knowledge
What is Sneak and Peek Search
300
An unlawful attack by one person upon another.
What is assault
400
The physical area in which a crime is thought to have occurred and in which evidence of the crime is thought to reside.
What is crime scene
400
Information about a crime that forms the basis for determining the perpetrator's identity.
What is Solvability Factor
400
A legal term describing the ready visibility of objects that might be seized as evidence during a search by police in the absence of a search warrant specifying the seizure of those objects.
What is Plain View
400
Evidence of relevance to a criminal investigation that is not readily seen by the unaided eye.
What is Latent Evidence
400
trespassory breaking and entering of the dwelling house of another in the nighttime with the intent to commit a felony.
What is Burglary
500
A legal concept that provides a basis for suspicionless searches when public safety is at issue. (Urinalysis tests of train engineers are an example.)
What is Compelling Interest
500
A measure of the time that it takes for police officers to respond to calls for service.
What is Response Time
500
The level of suspicion that would justify an officer in making further inquiry or in conducting further investigation. Reasonable suspicion may permit stopping a person for questioning or for a simple pat-down search.
What is Reasonable Suspicion
500
The lawful seizure, acquisition, analysis, reporting and safeguarding of data from digital devices that may contain information of evidentiary value to the trier of fact in criminal events.
What is Digital Criminal Forensics
500
A criminal offense in which the motive is "hatred, bias, or prejudice, based on the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation of another individual or group of individuals.
What is Hate Crime
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