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1) Who were the Bow Street Runners, and what is their historical importance?
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2) What parallels can be drawn between Allan Pinkerton and J. Edgar Hoover?
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3) What did the “due process revolution” and subsequent Supreme Court decisions change
with respect to the police?
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4) Why does the Henry classification enjoy greater use than Vucetich’s system?
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5) What are seven different human sources of DNA material;?
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6) _________blank efforts led to the establishment of the London Metropolitan Police in
1829.
6) ______
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7) The fact that microbial communities live and die in a predictable fashion allows forensic
science to reliably estimate the_________blank of a body within 2 to 4 days over 25 days of
decomposition.
7) ______
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8) The major private detective agency of the century was formed by_________blank.
8) ______
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9) To supplement the rogues’ gallery, Thomas Byrnes instituted the
9) ______
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10) In 1967_________blank was made operational by the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
providing data on wanted persons and property stolen from all 50 states.
10) ______
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11) Locard established the first_________blank in Lyon in 1910.
11) ______
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12) All crime scenes are searched on the basis of Locard’s_________blank, which asserts that
when perpetrators come into contact with the scene, they will leave something of themselves and
take away something from the scene.
12) ______
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13) The first foreigner trained in the use of the Henry classification system was New York
City Detective Sergeant_________blank in 1904.
13) ______
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14) The_________blank cases involved testing blood samples from about 5,500 men living
in the area in an attempt to identify a rape suspect.
14) ______
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15) _________blank helped produce the first workable polygraph in 1921 and established
America’s first full forensic laboratory in Los Angeles in 1923.
15) ______
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16) _________blank refers to the measurable and automated physiological or behavioral
characteristics that can be used to verify the identity of an individual.
16) ______
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17) The first modern detective force was
17) ______
A) the Bow Street Runners.
B) established by the Metropolitan Police Act of 1829.
C) created by Patrick Colquhoun.
D) the London Metropolitan Police.
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18) The London Metropolitan Police was established in 1829. At first, the British public was
suspicious of, and at times even hostile toward, it because
18) ______
A) they often mistook the police for thieves during the night-time.
B) the peaceful agricultural population had no need for policing.
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.
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19) In 1833,_________blank passed an ordinance creating America’s first paid, daylight
police force.
19) ______
A) Philadelphia
B) Chicago
C) New York City
D) Baltimore
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20) Which of the following is a reason for the absence of reliable detectives in America
during the 1800’s?
20) ______
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 answers are correct.
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21) Which city was the first to create a unified police force in the United States?
21) ______
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A) New Orleans
B) New York
C) Baltimore
D) Philadelphia
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22) After the Civil War, Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency engaged in the two broad
areas of
22) ______
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.
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23) What municipal agency was the first to establish a Criminal Identification Bureau?
23) ______
A) Chicago
B) Atlanta
C) Philadelphia
D) New Orleans
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24) Which of the following statements about a rogues’ gallery is true?
24) ______
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 answers are correct.
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25) What was the original mission of the U.S. Secret Service when created by Congress in
1865?
25) ______
A) combating counterfeiting
B) providing protection for the President
C) preventing drug importation into the country
D) All of the answers are correct.
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26) Which agency was the prototype for modern state police organizations?
26) ______
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A) New York State Police
B) Georgia State Police
C) Pennsylvania State Police
D) Pinkerton International Detective Agency
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27) The Harrison Act of 1914 made the distribution of nonmedical drugs a crime. The agency
currently charged with enforcing its provisions is the_________blank.
27) ______
A) Federal Bureau of Investigations
B) Narcotics Bureau
C) Drug Enforcement Administration
D) Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs
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28) 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_________blank.
28) ______
A) radical court era
B) leftist court decisions
C) due process revolution
D) ex-post-facto period
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29) Who wrote the first major book describing the application of scientific disciplines to
criminal investigation in 1893?
29) ______
A) Hans Gross
B) Edmond Locard
C) Alphonse Bertillon
D) Leon Czolgosz
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30) 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?
30) ______
A) dactylography
B) ectomorphism
C) anthropometry
D) accutron
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31) The father of criminal identification is
31) ______
A) Hans Gross.
B) Alphonse Bertillon.
C) Edward Henry.
D) William Herschel.
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32) Prior to the adoption of Edward Henry’s fingerprint system in England in 1990, it was in
use in_________blank.
32) ______
A) Germany
B) Nepal
C) China
D) British India
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33) In 1892, who published the first definitive book on dactylography,Finger Prints?
33) ______
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A) Sir Francis Galton
B) Henri Lacassagne
C) Henry Balthazard
D) Calvin Goddard
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34) There was rivalry between partisans of the two classification systems developed by
Edward Henry and_________blank regarding the superiority of their respective fingerprint
identification systems.
34) ______
A) Henry Goddard
B) Daniel Nolan
C) Joseph Faurot
D) Juan Vucetich
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35) In 1985, research by_________blank 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.
35) ______
A) James Watson
B) Dawn Ashworth
C) Francis Crick
D) Alec Jeffreys
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36) What is the significance of theEnderby cases?
36) ______
A) They questioned the scientific validity of fingerprint evidence.
B) Those trials were the first use of “voice prints” to convict a criminal.
C) The precedent of using DNA in a criminal case was established.
D) None of the answers is correct.
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37) The 1992 palo verde seedpod case is significant because it
37) ______
A) excluded case evidence because of police misuse of plant pathology procedures.
B) involved the use of plant DNA in a criminal case.
C) established the scientific basis for identifying suspects from their fingerprints on flora.
D) None of the answers is correct.
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38) Who made the first successful attempt to identify a murderer from a bullet recovered
from the body of a victim?
38) ______
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A) Paul Jeserich
B) Henri Lacassagne
C) Henry Balthazard
D) Henry Goddard
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39) _________blank is considered most responsible for raising firearms identification to a
science and for perfecting the bullet comparison microscope.
39) ______
A) Paul Jeserich
B) Henri Lacassagne
C) Henry Balthazard
D) Calvin Goddard
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40) Leone Lattes developed a procedure that
40) ______
A) suggested an eye iris might have characteristics for individual identification.
B) established when DNA was left on an object recovered from a crime scene.
C) allowed evidence gathered from touch DNA to be preserved for over a span of 10
years.
D) permitted blood typing from a dried bloodstain.
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41) Identify a true statement about touch DNA. It
41) ______
A) helps determine how an object was used.
B) analysis of it is only successful in 5 percent of all cases.
C) does not leave a visible residue.
D) cannot be accumulated.
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42) Which of the following provides a genomic-based, probabilistic estimation of the image
of a person of interest?
42) ______
A) DNA phenotyping
B) dactylography
C) biometrics
D) None of the answers is correct.
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43) Forensic science draws from diverse disciplines, such as geology, physics, chemistry,
biology, and mathematics, to study physical evidence related to crime.
43) ______
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⊚ false
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44) In the late 1800s, “Pinkerton” was a nickname for all American government detectives.
44) ______
⊚ true
⊚ false
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45) The Metropolitan Police headquarters came to be known as “Scotland Yard” because the
building formerly had housed Scottish royalty.
45) ______
⊚ true
⊚ false
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46) After Prohibition was adopted nationally in 1920, the Bureau of Internal Revenue was
responsible for its enforcement.
46) ______
⊚ true
⊚ false
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47) When Prohibition was repealed in 1933, many former bootleggers turned to bank robbery
and kidnapping.
47) ______
⊚ true
⊚ false
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48) The Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD) was an offshoot organization
from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) that was formed to handle national terroristic
drug use.
48) ______
⊚ true
⊚ false
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49) Edmond Benet developed the portraitparlé or “speaking picture,” which combines full-
face and profile photographs of each criminal with their exact body measurements and other
descriptive data onto a single card.
49) ______
⊚ true
⊚ false
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50) DNA is a chemical “blueprint” that determines everything from hair color to
susceptibility to diseases.
50) ______
⊚ true
⊚ false
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51) The Orlando cases set the stage for the first use of DNA in criminal investigations in the
United States.
51) ______
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⊚ false
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52) In 1913, Professor Balthazard published an article on firearms identification in which he
noted that the firing pin, breechblock, extractor, and ejector all leave marks on cartridges, and
that they vary among weapons.
52) ______
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⊚ false
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53) The time it takes for touch DNA to be deposited is constant.
53) ______
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⊚ false
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54) Currently, the age of a person of interest in a case can be determined by phenotyping.
54) ______
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⊚ false
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