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BPOC Criminal Investigations And Interviews 2024 Exam Study Guide
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BPOC Criminal Investigations AndInterviews 2024 Exam Study Guide
The process of legally gathering evidence of a crime that has been or is being
committed. - Answer Criminal Investigation
A highly personal and unreasoned distortion of judgment - Answer Bias
*An act or omission forbidden by law and punishable by a fine, imprisonment, or even
death*. - Answer Crime
*NOT* based on actual personal knowledge or observation of the facts in controversy,
but of *other facts* from which deductions are drawn, showing indirectly the facts
sought to be proved - Answer Circumstantial Evidence
*Person requesting* an investigation or *that action is taken*. IS OFTEN THE VICTIM OF
A CRIME - Answer Complainant
Literally means the *BODY OR SUBSTANCE OF A CRIME*. In law the term refers to proof
establishing that a crime has occurred; the necessary elements that constitute a crime.
- Answer Corpus delicti
Conditions that must occur for an act to be called a specific kind of crime. - Answer
Elements of a crime
Anything to be offered in court to prove the truth or falsity of a fact in issue - Answer
Evidence
Something known to be true - Answer Fact
One who receives and disposes of stolen property on a regular basis. - Answer Fence
*On-the-scene identification* of a suspect by the victim of or witness to a crime,
conducted within minutes of the commission of a crime - Answer Field Identification
An opinion or leaning adverse to anything without just grounds or before obtaining
sufficient knowledge - Answer Prejudice
A criminal's characteristic method of operation. - Answer Modus Operandi (MO)
Level of *proof required to obtain a conviction* in a criminal trial. - Answer Proof beyond
a reasonable doubt
*Credible information exists that would cause a reasonable and prudent person to
believe a particular suspect committed or is committing a specific offense* (in the case
of arrest);
Or - *Credible information exists* that would cause a reasonable and prudent person to
, believe there is a fair probability *that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found*
in a particular place - Answer Probable Cause
A feeling of ease and harmony in a contact or *relationship between people.* - Answer
Rapport
The *level of certainty a juror must have* to find a defendant *guilty* of a crime. The
burden of proof in a criminal case - proof beyond a _______ ______ - Answer Reasonable
Doubt
Specific articulable facts, together with rational inferences from those *facts that would
REASONABLY warrant the detention of a person* - Answer Reasonable Suspicion
A legal narrative description of events related to a crime - Answer Statement
*A PERSON* considered to be directly or indirectly *CONNECTED WITH A CRIME*,
either by overt act or by planning and/or directing it - Answer Suspect
A person who *SAW A CRIME* or some part of it being committed or who has relevant
information. - Answer Witness
The person injured by a crime - Answer Victim
The tools available to a criminal investigator have INCREASED and *will continue to
INCREASE in number and sophistication*, however: - Answer The fundamentals of
criminal investigation *REMAIN THE SAME*.
-Information
-interviewing
-Laws of arrest, search and seizure
Are all - Answer Criminal Investigation Tools
________ is the body, foundation, or substance of a crime
A) Corpus Capias
B) Corpus Christi
C) Delecti Evidence
D) Corpus Delicti - Answer D) Corpus Delicti
A ___________ is the altering of a vehicles identity by placing the serial number of a total
loss car onto a stolen vehicle
A) License Swith
B) Bait and Switch
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