Deck 4: Managing Criminal Investigations

Question 1

The _______________ Amendment to the U.S. Constitution delegates law enforcement functions to the individual states.

A) Second
B) Fifth
C) Eighth
D) Tenth
E) Fourteenth

Answer 1

D

Question 2

According to the authors, detective bureaus customarily have been organized into _____________ classifications.

A) specialist and generalist
B) adult and juvenile
C) professional and unprofessional
D) quasi-military and civilian
E) all of the above

Answer 2

A

Question 3

According to MCI, the responsibility for the initial investigation of any crime belongs to the

A) criminal investigator
B) patrol supervisor
C) patrol officer responding to the call
D) crime scene technician
E) all of the above

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The process that removes cases from the workload, thus making resources available for those holding greater promise of solution, is known as case

A) selection
B) solvability
C) evaluation
D) screening
E) assignment

Question 5

According to the text, because the traditional practice in the criminal justice system has been for each segment to act independently with little concern for other component parts, many uniformed officers and detectives hold the view that they have a(n) ____________ relationship with the prosecutor's office.

A) collegial
B) adversarial
C) professional
D) cooperative
E) workable

Question 6

A case ___________________ is set up to give administrators continuous feedback on the investigative process and the quality of personnel performance.

A) assignment system
B) review and evaluation system
C) monitoring system
D) productivity system
E) screening system

Question 7

CompStat was originally designed in the early 1990s as an evaluative program based on ________ statistics and what was then a sophisticated mapping program.

A) virtual
B) micro
C) macro
D) quantitative
E) qualitative

Question 8

Administrative management of an investigative unit includes which of the following?

A) selection and training of officers
B) crime analysis
C) resource allocation
D) assessments of effectiveness
E) all of the above

Question 9

Managing Criminal Investigations (MCI) suggests the effectiveness of investigations is based on which of the following criteria?

A) number of arrests
B) number of cases cleared
C) number of convictions
D) number of cases accepted for prosecution
E) all of the above

Question 10

Case solvability factors include which of the following?

A) Is the victim cooperative?
B) Is there a witness to the crime?
C) Is physical evidence present?
D) both a & b, but not c
E) both b & c, but not a

Question 11

Specialist detectives handle particular crimes such as homicide, automobile theft, and burglary.

Question 12

A detective considered to be a generalist handles any type of crime that is reported to the law enforcement agency.

Question 13

Crime on the streets of the United States was a major campaign issue in the 1967 Johnson-Goldwater presidential race.

Question 14

According to the authors, under the MCI concept, it is not necessary for patrol officers to have in-depth training in the recognition and preservation of physical evidence at the crime scene.

Question 15

If physical evidence is moved, trampled, or touched, the investigative and probative value of the evidence can be greatly diminished or even destroyed in certain situations.

Question 16

Experience clearly demonstrates that if the police fully investigate any particular crime, the case can be solved successfully in every instance.

Question 17

A noteworthy aspect of MCI is the significance it attaches to advising a complainant of the decision to suspend an investigation.

Question 18

A case monitoring system can be put to use in building a profile of each detective's abilities, assessing productivity, and identifying any need for retraining.

Question 19

The traditional practice in the criminal justice system has been for each segment to act independently with little concern for other component parts.

Question 20

Cognition is the process of acquiring knowledge by the use of reasoning, intuition, or perception.