CRIME
Criminology Theory
Forensics
Jails/Corrections
True Crime
100

This type of evidence includes oral or written statements given to police, such as witness testimony.

What is testimonial evidence?

100
Social learning theory suggests that crime is a/an ___ behavior.
What is learned
100

This document tracks the movement of evidence from the scene to the lab.

What is the Chain of Custody?

100

Perhaps the most famous federal prison, it was located on an island in San Francisco Bay.

Alcatraz

100

This serial killer famously studied psychology and represented himself during his 1979 Miami trial.

Ted Bundy

200
The best known and most important source of official crime data is the ____
What is Uniform Crime Report
200

_____ is a crime-reducing social event. Research proves it to be a key element of social capital and informal social control that allows offenders to lead more conventional lifestyles.

What is Marriage

200

This is the first priority of the first responder at a crime scene.

What is providing emergency care (or securing the scene)?

200

Which country has the highest incarceration rate in the world?

United States

200

In 1962, three men escaped from this island prison in California, never to be found.

Alcatraz

300

What type of evidence is fingerprints? 

Latent 

300

This type of negotiation accounts for more than 90% of all criminal convictions in the U.S.

What is plea bargaining? 

300

What is the difference between individual and class evidence?

Individual- Material that is used to make a direct ID of a person Class- Material that is used to connect an object or person to a group

300

A temporary, usually secure room where police officers put someone immediately after arrest.

What is a holding cell?

300

This 1947 unsolved murder of a young woman in Los Angeles is known as the "Black Dahlia" case.

Who is Elizabeth Short?

400

_____ is taking something directly from a person using force, while _____ is breaking into a building to steal.

Robbery; Burglary

400

What is scientific research of the causation of crime

Criminology

400

These are the three main types of fingerprints.

What are Loops, Whorls, and Arches?

400

The highest-ranking officer in a county jail, often an elected position.

Sheriff

400

This group of over 100 people disappeared from a North Carolina island in 1587.

What is the Roanoke Colony?

500

Common theft-related offenses including auto theft, shoplifting, and credit card fraud fall into the crime category of ____ .

What is street crime

500
According to rational choice theory, why might a criminal decide not to commit a crime?
What is The criminal perceives the crime is too risky.
500

This chemical is used to detect hidden bloodstains.

What is Luminol?

500
Which goal of punishment is aimed at reducing future criminality by treating and eliminating the underlying causes of crime?
What is rehabilitation
500

The name of the organization formed by Keith Raniere that was later exposed as a cult.

What is NXIVM?

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