Deck 5: An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis

Question 1

Which of the following types of evidence can be considered behavioral under the right circumstance?
a. Physical evidence
b. Documentary evidence
c. Testimonial evidence
d. All of the above

Answer 1

All of the above

Question 2

Forensic victimology is concerned only with the events leading up to victim injury.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

BEA is an) method of criminal profiling.
a. Nomo-deductive
b. Nomo-inductive
c. Ideo-deductive
d. Ideo-inductive

Answer 3

Ideo-deductive

Question 4

Practice standards serve which of the following purposes?
a. Practice standards help professionals achieve a level of competency
b. Practice standards provide independent reviewers with a basis for checking work that purports to be competent
c. Practice standards are designed to reduce bias
d. All of the above

Question 5

According to the practice standards of BEA, criminal profilers must strive diligently to avoid
.
a. Statistics
b. Interpretation
c. Bias
d. Error

Question 6

The main purpose of BEA is to achieve a static, inflexible result, not unlike a clinical diagnosis.

Question 7

According to the practice standards of BEA, which of the following should be included in a written report?
a. A chain of custody section
b. A results section
c. A descriptive section
d. All of the above

Question 8

All crime scene characteristics can be established in any given case.

Question 9

Forensic victimology includes an assessment of victim and .
a. Suffering, pain
b. Fantasy, ritual
c. Modus operandi, signature
d. Risk, exposure

Question 10

is the analytical process of interpreting the specific features of a crime and related crime scenes.
a. Crime scene analysis
b. Crime scene processing
c. Victimology
d. Forensic analysis

Question 11

Which of the following is not a crime scene characteristic?
a. Method of approach
b. Method of attack
c. Victim responsibility
d. Precautionary acts

Question 12

When is an appropriate time to use criminal profiling during a trial?
a. Guilt phase
b. Penalty phase
c. Appeal phase
d. All of the above

Question 13

Which of the following is not a step in BEA?
a. Forensic analysis
b. Forensic awareness
c. Victimology
d. Crime scene characteristics

Question 14

According to Allport's trait theory, intelligence is an example of a .
a. Cardinal trait
b. Central trait
c. Secondary trait
d. Tertiary trait

Question 15

Forensic analysis is the first step in BEA.

Question 16

Which principle of BEA states that individuals develop uniquely over time, in response to biological, environmental, and subsequent psychological factors?
a. The principle of unintended consequences
b. The principle of multidetermination
c. The principle of separation
d. The principle of uniqueness

Question 17

The investigative phase of BEA involves an analysis of the patterns of unknown perpetrators of known crimes.

Question 18

Which of the following terms refers to the conscious or unconscious tendency to affirm previous theories, opinions, or findings?
a. Observation bias
b. Confirmation bias
c. Interpretation bias
d. All of the above

Question 19

An idiographic offender profile represents an abstract.

Question 20

Any form of physical evidence may also be behavioral under the right circumstances.

Question 21

The first responsibility of the criminal profiler is fact finding in a criminal investigation for the purpose of serving justice.

Question 22

Outline the 2 separate contexts of BEA. List 2 primary goals of each.

Question 23

Define the term behavioral evidence. Provide 3 examples.

Question 24

According to the practice standards of BEA, criminal profilers must, whenever possible, visit the crime scene.

Question 25

According to Allport's trait theory, cardinal traits are the small number of dominant, pervasive and stable traits that define an individual to others and guide the majority of their decisions.