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Criminal Investigation 12th Edition by Charles Swanson, Neil Chamelin and Leonard Territo Test Bank
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1 Copyright 2019 © McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education. Criminal Investigation, 12e (Swanson) Chapter 1 The Evolution of Criminal Investigation and Forensic Science 1) The first modern detective force was: A) the Bow Street Runners. B) established by the Metropolitan Police Act of 1829. C) created by Patrick Colquhoun. D) the London Metropolitan Police. 2) The London Metropolitan Police was established in 1829. At first, the British public was suspicious of, and at times even hostile toward, it because: A) King Edward II had supported its creation. B) Rowan and Mayne had intimate ties to the royal family. C) social reformers such as Jeremy Bentham had long argued that it was a danger to personal liberty. D) French citizens had experienced oppression under centralized police. 3) In 1833, ________ passed an ordinance creating America's first paid, daylight police force. A) Philadelphia B) Chicago C) New York City D) Baltimore 4) Which of the following is a reason for the absence of reliable detectives in America during the 1800's? A) Graft and corruption were common among America's big city police officers. B) Police jurisdictions were limited. C) There was little information sharing by law enforcement agencies. D) All of the above. 5) Which city was the first to create a unified police force in the United States? A) New Orleans B) New York C) Baltimore D) Philadelphia 6) After the Civil War, Pinkerton's National Detective Agency engaged in the two broad areas of: A) locating war criminals and investigating the KKK. B) protecting members of Congress and the Supreme Court. C) following up on initial reports of interstate crimes and locating offenders who fled to a foreign country. D) controlling a discontented working class and pursuing bank and railroad robbers. 2 Copyright 2019 © McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education. 7) What municipal agency was the first to establish a Criminal Identification Bureau? A) Chicago B) Atlanta C) Philadelphia D) New Orleans 8) Which of the following statements about a rogues' gallery is true? A) It is only practical in cities with populations of 100,000 or more. B) It consists of photographs of known criminals arranged by criminal specialty and height. C) Its use was abandoned because of the cost of maintaining it. D) All of the above. 9) What was the original mission of the Secret Service when created by Congress in 1865? A) combat counterfeiting B) providing protection for the President C) preventing drug importation into the country D) All of the above 10) Which agency was the prototype for modern state police organizations? A) New York State Police B) Georgia State Police C) Pennsylvania State Police D) Pinkerton International Detective Agency 11) The Harrison Act of 1914 made the distribution of nonmedical drugs a crime. The agency currently charged with enforcing its provisions is the ________. A) Federal Bureau of Investigations B) Narcotics Bureau C) Drug Enforcement Administration D) Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs 12) During 1961-1966, the U.S. Supreme Court became unusually active in hearing cases involving the rights of criminal suspects and defendants. This period is referred to as the ________. A) radical court era B) leftist court decisions C) due process revolution D) ex-post facto period 13) The first major book describing the application of scientific disciplines to criminal investigation was written in 1893 by Hans Gross. Translated into English in 1906, it remains highly respected today as a seminal work in the field. What is the book's title? A) Criminal Investigation B) The Scientific Method of Criminal Inquiry C) Science and Criminals D) Forensic Science and Crime 3 Copyright 2019 © McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education. 14) An early method of criminal identification was based on the thought that every human being differs from every other one in the exact measurements of their body. Also, the sum of those measurements was thought to yield a characteristic formula for each individual. What was this method of criminal identification? A) Dactylography B) Ectomorphism C) Anthropometry D) Accutron 15) The father of criminal identification is: A) Hans Gross. B) Alphonse Bertillon. C) Edward Henry. D) William Herschel. 16) The first country to use fingerprints as a system of criminal identification was: A) Germany. B) France. C) China. D) England. 17) In 1892, who published the first definitive book on dactylography, Finger Prints? A) Sir Francis Galton B) Henri Lacassagne C) Henry Balthazard D) Calvin Goddard 18) Which 1903 case was the most important incident to advance the use of fingerprints in the United States? A) Lindberg B) Fauld C) West D) Vucetich 19) In 1985, research by ________ and his colleagues at Leicester University, England, led to the discovery that portions of the DNA structure of certain genes are as unique to individuals as are fingerprints. A) James Watson B) Dawn Ashworth C) Francis Crick D) Alec JeffreysThe benefits of buying summaries with Stuvia:
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