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Testbank for
Criminal Investigation Basic Perspectives
Thirteenth Edition
Charles A. Lushbaugh
Paul B. Weston
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Chapter 1 Test Questions
Multiple Choice
1. U.S. police agencies were modeled after the: _____.
- London Metropolitan police
- posse comitatus
- Bow Street Runners
- None of these.
Answer: a
Objective: Discuss the evolution of policing in England and how this history applies to American policing.
Page number: 2
Level: Intermediate
- In 1285, this law required all English towns to have men on the streets after dark to provide
- Magna Carta
- Statute of Winchester
- Statute of London
- Statute of Northumberland
for the safety of travelers and the town’s inhabitants.
Answer: b
Objective: Discuss the evolution of policing in England and how this history applies to American policing.
Page number: 2
Level: Basic
- This Bow Street Runners leader instituted organized mounted patrols on the highways and
- Henry Fielding
- Robert Peel
- August Vollmer
- John Fielding
foot patrols on the city streets.
Answer: d
Objective: Discuss the evolution of policing in England and how this history applies to American policing.
Page number: 3
Level: Difficult
- This English politician is known as the “father of policing.”
- John Fielding
- Henry Fielding
- Robert Peel 2 / 4
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- Alphonse Bertillon
Answer: c
Objective: Evaluate the political climate in the United States at the time the first police departments were being formed and the effect this political climate had on these departments.
Page number: 3
Level: Basic
- Corrupt political machines operating under this system allowed politicians to extort money
- spoils system
- machine system
- democratic system
- patronage system
from people and companies wanting to do business with the city.
Answer: a
Objective: Evaluate the political climate in the United States at the time the first police departments were being formed and the effect this political climate had on these departments.
Page number: 5
Level: Intermediate
- This American reformer advocated that the elimination of politics from policing.
- August Vollmer
- J. Edgar Hoover
- Alphonse Bertillon
- Albert S. Osborn
Answer: a
Objective: Describe the emergence of the reform movement in American policing and the major tenants of the reform agenda.
Page number: 5
Level: Difficult
- This is the application of scientific techniques in collecting and analyzing physical
- forensics
- the scientific method
- criminalistics
- the exchange principle
evidence.
Answer: c
Objective: Identify the persons and their scientific discoveries that led to the development of the field of criminalistics.
Page number: 7
Level: Basic
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- This is the use of science to answer legal questions.
- criminalistics
- forensics
- toxicology
- law
Answer: b
Objective: Identify the persons and their scientific discoveries that led to the development of the field of criminalistics.
Page number: 7
Level: Difficult
- The idea that when a criminal comes in contact with another object or person, a cross-transfer
- anthropometry
- cross-contamination
- the exchange principle
- the Locard principle
of evidence occurs, primarily of hairs and fibers.
Answer: c
Objective: Identify the persons and their scientific discoveries that led to the development of the field of criminalistics.
Page number: 8
Level: Intermediate
- The man who developed the first means of human identification, known as anthropometry,
was: _____.
- Mathieu Orfila
- Hans Gross
- Alphonse Bertillon
- Francis Galton
Answer: c
Objective: Identify the persons and their scientific discoveries that led to the development of the field of criminalistics.
Page number: 7
Level: Intermediate
11. Policing at the local level includes all of the following except:
- municipal departments
- city police departments
- state police departments
- county police departments
Answer: c
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