Exam 5: Criminal Investigation: The Science of Sleuthing

If an arrest cannot be made,a case cannot be considered cleared.

The impact of the CSI effect on criminal justice processing is not clear.

Locard's _______________ asserts that a cross-transfer of evidence occurs whenever any person comes into contact with an object or another person.

Most social networking sites do not require police to obtain search warrants before turning over information about their members.

Firearms identification experts can restore obliterated serial numbers on many weapons.

A _______________ is a lay individual who conducts death investigations but who is not necessarily trained in the medical sciences.

Because of the difficulties and personal demands of undercover work,officers are generally pleased to be returning to patrol duty.

"Criminalistics" is one branch of:

____________ DNA searches involve investigators looking for close,but not exact,matches between DNA evidence collected at a crime scene and the state's data bank of DNA collected from convicted felons.

August Vollmer emphasized the use of forensic science by the police.

Describe how police investigators approach "cold" cases.

The Supreme Court has upheld the right of convicted offenders to postconviction DNA testing.

The theory that a cross-transfer of evidence occurs whenever any person comes into contact with an object or another person is:

________________ involves the examination,evaluation,and explanation of physical evidence in law.

Anthropometry was developed by in 1882.

____________ studies persons using criminal coercion and provides strategies for dealing with threats.

The "corpus delicti" includes physical evidence that shows that a crime was committed.

Police are using __________ sites to obtain information on criminal conspiracies.

A case that established the superiority of fingerprints,occurring at Leavenworth Penitentiary,involved: