Vocabulary
The Chemistry of Fire
Searching the Fire Scene
Collection and Preservation of Arson Evidence
Analysis of Flammable Residues
100
The ability or potential of a system or material to do work.
What is energy?
100
The minimum temperature at which a liquid fuel produces enough vapor to burn.
What is Flash Point?
100
This is a body of rules for human conduct enforced by imposing penalties for their violation.
What is law
100
A shout by a citizen who witnessed a crime.
What is hue and cry
100
Mounted patrol unit
What is lighthorsemen
200
An offender's pattern of operation.
What is modus operandi?
200
The transfer of heat energy from a heated surface to a cooler surface by electromagnetic radiation.
What is radiation?
200
He established rules for his kingdom designating not only offenses but punishment as well, originating the legal principle of lex talionis
Who is King Hammurabi
200
The first detective unit in London
What is Bow Street Runners
200
These are served by more than 200 police departments operating in Indian Country.
What are tribal communities.
300
A fire caused by a natural heat-producing process in the presence of sufficient air and fuel.
What is spontaneous combustion?
300
Movement of heat through a solid object where electrons and atoms collide with one another.
What is Conduction?
300
The first written laws of the Roman Empire, drawn up by 10 of the wisest men in Rome in 451 and 450 BC.
What are the Twelve Tables
300
The Normans modified the tithing system into this.
What is the Frankpledge system
300
There are this many levels of government authorized to have law enforcement agencies.
What is 5
400
A chemical transformation in which heat energy is liberated.
What is exothermic reaction?
400
1. Fuel must be present 2. Oxygen must be available in sufficient quantity to combine with the fuel 3. Heat must be applied to initiate the combustion, and sufficient heat must be generated to sustain the reaction.
What are the requirements to initiate and sustain combustion?
400
The Greek philosopher who came up with the idea that punishment should serve a purpose other than simple retaliation.
Who is Plato.
400
It established arson, robbery, murder and crimes of violence as being against the kings peace, separating felonies and misdemeanors.
What is Leges Henrici
400
This has evolved in how it has viewed itself, its responsibilities, and the most effective means to meet those responsibilities
What is policing.
500
The chemical breakdown of solid material into gaseous product.
What is pyrolysis?
500
The entire range of possible gas or vapor fuel concentrations in air that are capable of burning.
What is flammable range?
500
They set standards on what constituted an offense against society.
Who were the Sumerian rulers Lipitshtar and Eshumma
500
Often referred to as the "father of modern policing," he proposed a return to the Anglo-Saxon principle of individual community responsibility for preserving law and order
Who is Sir Robert Peel
500
Responsible for 55.7 million acres of land held in trust by the United States for American Indians, Indian tribes, and Alaskan natives.
What is the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)