Terminology
Search Methods
Trace Evidence
Crime Scene
Anything?
100

A ________ warrant is a broad authorization from a judge that allows the police to search multiple areas for evidence without specifying exactly what they are looking for and seize everything found. 

A. Closet Search 

B. Property Search 

C. Blanket Search 

D. Bathroom Search 

C. Blanket Search 

100

CSI’s divide the crime scene into a bride of equal sized sections, knows as ______________________. 

A. Corner Search

B. Up, Down Search

C. Rescue Search

D. Left, Right, Center Search

D. Left, Right, Center Search

100

The person or institution that initiates a lawsuit in civil court proceedings by filing a complaint.


A. Defendant

B. Liability

C. Plaintiff

D. Civil Law


C. Plaintiff

100

The ________ of a crime scene refers to the size and scope. (Where criminal activity occurred.)

A. Area

B. Extent

C. Division

D. Premise

B. Extent

100

____________ prevents the government from using most evidence gathered in violation of the U.S. Constitution. 

A. Search and Seizure Rule

B. Exclusive Rule 

C. Excluded Evidence Rule 

D. Exclusionary Rule

D. Exclusionary Rule

200

What term is used to describe evidence down illegally?

A. Out of Loop 

B. Exclusionary

C. Fruits of the Poisonous Tree

D. Indirect Evidence  

C. Fruits Of the Poisonous Tree

200

What is a Parallel Search? 

A. All members of the CSI team form a line and walk in a straight line, at the same speed, from on end of the scene to another.

B. The CSI team forms a circle and walks around the center of the crime scene at the same speed. 

C. The CSI team forms a line and does a quick walkthrough of the crime scene. 

A. All members of the CSI team form a line and walk in a straight line, at the same speed, from on end of the scene to another.

200

What is the most common fingerprint type, and how many Delta’s does it have? 

A. Loop (2) 

B. Whorl (0)

C. Loop (1)

D. Arch (1)

C. Loop (1)

200

As a general rule, __________ should be the first step in documenting the crime scene. 

A. Walk through

B. Observations

C. Photography

D. Report

C. Photography

200

What did Mapp Vs. Ohio establish? 

A. Exclusionary Rule 

B. Unreasonable Searches and Seizures

C. Fleeing Felon Rule 

D. Search and Seizure Rule 

A. Exclusionary Rule 

300

What abbreviation stands for Landscape Study of Alternative Light Sources? 

A. LSA

B. LSA 

C. ALS

D. SLA 

C. ALS

300

The three systematic search methods are the _______, ________, and _______ methods. 

A. Strip, grid, zone 

B. Rectangular, triangular, polar

C. Whirl, graph, spin

D. Spinning, whirl, grid

A. Strip, grid, zone

300

Bloodstains that are invisible to the naked eye can be found by spraying _________. 

A. Luminol/Bluestar

B. Amino Black 

C. Wetwop

D. Small Particle Reagent

A. Luminol/Bluestar

300

An advantage to photographing crime scenes over sketching is that the photograph closely approximates the way the ____ views the scene. 

A. Victim

B. Witness

C. Police

D. Eye


D. Eye

300

A _______ has the highest form of velocity, and a ________ has the lowest for of velocity. 

A. Hammer, Gun

B. Gun, Baseball Bat

C. Gun, Hammer

D. Baseball Bat, Screwdriver 

C. Gun, Hammer

400

The “Linkage Triangle” illustrates the possible transfer of physical evidence between the _______, the _______, and the ________. 

A. Log, tape, police

B. Victim, suspect, scene

C. Crime, subject, police

D.Media, public, police 

B. Victim, suspect, scene.

400

Jermey Bentham, an ethical hedonist, believed the moral rightness or wrongness of an action to be a function of the amount of pleasure or pain that it produced. The felicific calculus could, in principle at least, determine the moral status of any considered act.


A. Classical Criminology

B. Positivism

C. Hypothesis

D. Hedonistic Calculus

D. Hedonistic Calculus

400

Color, density, and refractive index are _____ properties of glass. 

A. Fracture

B. Physical

C. Symmetrical

D. Contact

B. Physical 

400

Conduct deemed criminal without actual harm being done, provided that the harm that would have occurred is one the law tries to prevent.


A. Inchoate Offenses

B. Insanity

C. Substantial Capacity Test

D. Irresponsible-Impulse Test

A. Inchoate Offenses

400

Photography of impressions requires both mid-range and ________ photographs. 

A. Close-up

B. Overall 

C. Overview

D. Overlay 

A. Close-up. 

500

The term accelerant refers to materials that _______ a fire. 

A. Accelerates

 B. Creates

C. ExtinguishesD. Ignites

A. Accelerates

500

A theory based on the assumption that members of certain subcultures reject the values of the dominant culture through deviant behavior patterns.


A. Cultural Deviance Theory

B. Social Disorganization Theory

C. psychoanalytic theory

D. Social Psychology

A. Cultural Deviance Theory

500

“Patent” Prints are those prints which are _____ to the ____. 

A.Invisible, Naked eye

B. Visible, naked eye 

C. Processed, Powder

D. Impressed, Surface

B. Visible, Naked eye

500

Latin for “after the fact,” it refers to a law making a certain act illegal after that act was committed. That is, when the act took place, it was still legal.


A. Actus Reas

B. Ex Post Facto Law

C. Corpus Delicit

D. Mens Rea

B. Ex Post Facto Law

500

 A federal law enforcement organization with the primary responsibility of protecting the president, the president’s family, the vice president, and other important political figures.


A. Federal Bureau of Investigation

B. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

C. U.S. Customs and Border Protection

D. U.S. Secret Service

D. U.S. Secret Service