Crime Scene Investigation Quiz

Unit 1: Basic Investigations

• Lesson 1: The Investigative Sequence
  • Investigative sequence focuses on fairness in process and outcome
  • Respond to incidents with potential for arrest.

Basic Investigation Flow Chart

• Secure the scene

• Attend to medical needs of victims, witnesses, and suspects.

• Protect scene integrity

• Use sensitivity when engaging with people

• Determine if a crime occurred

• Understand responsibilities and agency limitations

• Notify supervisor: crime type, complexity, need for assistance, detective response, jurisdiction.

• Identify and separate victims and witnesses

• Prioritize duties: interviews, evidence, documentation, arrest or BOLO

• Top things to remember:

  • Victim and suspect relationship
  • Domestic violence or special classification
  • Instrumentality used in crime
  • Crime witnesses
  • Collect statements from involved parties, witnesses
  • Photograph the scene and look for video evidence
  • Physical evidence supports statements
  • Victim's desires for prosecution
  • Complete paperwork with all known facts
  • Arrest or at-large affidavit (per agency policy)
  • Be prepared to testify in court

• Scene Safety

  • Before entering building, identify yourself, state purpose
  • Position of advantage to avoid attack from behind
  • Assess the number of people present, note body language
  • Scan for hazards, including weapons, dangerous animals

• Initial response to calls, and approaching a scene influences cooperation from victims and witnesses

• Communication techniques to manage situations and maintain control

• Tending to medical needs for anyone injured or under the influence

• Controlling the scene: keeping people from entering or exiting, reducing contamination

  • Encouraging involved persons to sit down and keeping a safe space

• Maintaining neutrality, officer safety, and verbal de-escalation techniques

Unit 1: Lesson 2: Victims' Rights and Brochures

• Victims' rights
  • Due process: treat people fairly and respectfully
  • Freedom from intimidation, harassment, and abuse
  • Timely notice of public proceedings: (pleas, trials, and sentencing)
  • Reasonable protection from the accused, within the judicial process
  • Prevent disclosure of information to locate or harass victims or their families
  • Consult with prosecuting attorney
  • Participation in pretrial programs, defendant release, restitution, sentencing, or any other disposition of the case
  • Be informed of post-conviction processes and procedures
  • Return of property no longer needed as evidence
  • Full and timely restitution
  • Proceedings free from unnecessary delay
  • Informed of rights, and they can seek attorney assistance

Unit 2: Lesson 1: Assault and Battery

• Assault: involves verbal or non-verbal threats (within striking distance, raises a fist threatening harm)
• Aggravated assault: assault with deadly weapon or intent to commit a felony.
• Battery: intentional and unlawful touching without consent
• Aggravated battery: intentional serious injury, or using deadly weapon during battery.
• Felony Battery: significant injury, great bodily harm, permanent disability or disfigurement; if a prior battery and another battery occurs, the charge is considered felony battery.
• Domestic battery by strangulation is defined as an intentional act of physical obstruction of victim's breathing and/or circulation, by applying pressure to throat or neck, or blocking nose/mouth.

Unit 2: Lesson 2: Domestic Violence

• Domestic violence includes acts like assault, aggravated assault, battery, aggravated battery, sexual assault, sexual battery, stalking and aggravated stalking, kidnapping, or false imprisonment resulting in a physical injury or death.
• Family or household members are defined as spouses, former spouses, people related by blood or marriage, individuals living together as a family, or who have in the past lived together as a family, and parents of a child in common.

Unit 2: Lesson 3: Stalking Crimes

• Stalking involves unwanted and repeated attention, contact, or harassment from the suspect toward the victim.
• Aggravated stalking. Making a credible threat to the victim.
• Cyberstalking is communication or causing communication, of direct or indirect words, images or language, using electronic mail or electronic communications at, or pertaining a specific person, causing substantial emotional distress to the person and/or serving no legitimate purpose.

Unit 2: Lesson 4: Child Abuse

• Child abuse: intentionally inflicting physical or mental injury
• Child neglect: caregiver fails to provide essential services (food, nutrition, clothing, shelter, medicine, medical care) for a child's well-being.
• Child abandonment: failure to provide appropriate care and maintenance or establishing a relationship with the child.

Unit 2: Lesson 5: Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of an Elderly or Disabled Adult

• Abuse of an elderly person or disabled adult: knowingly or willfully subjecting them to conduct that could cause physical or psychological injury or death.
• Neglect of an elderly person or disabled adult: willful failure to provide care, supervision, and services needed to support physical or mental health.
• Exploitation of an elderly person or disabled adult. Taking advantage of their vulnerability. Exploitation includes wrongful taking of property, funds, and assets, abusing a special relationship for unauthorized seizure or harm.

Unit 2: Lesson 6: Interference with Custody, Luring or Enticing of a Child, False Imprisonment, and Kidnapping

• Interference with custody: taking a child from lawful custody.
• Luring or enticing a child: enticing/luring a child for unlawful purposes.
• False imprisonment: confining, abducting, imprisoning, or restraining a person without legal authority.
• Kidnapping: forcibly restraining and moving a person, with the intent to do one of more of the following: hold for ransom, use as a shield or hostage, commit a felony.

Unit 2: Lesson 7: Missing or Missing Endangered Persons

• Missing child: a person younger than 18, whose location is unknown, and missing person reported to the law enforcement agency.
• Missing adult: a person of age 18 or older, whose location is unknown, and missing person is reported to the law enforcement agency.
• Endangered persons can be a missing child or adult who's believed to be in danger or victim of a crime, missing adult 18 or older who meets the criteria for a Silver Alert.

Unit 2: Lesson 8: Sexual Offenses

• Sexual Battery: non-consensual oral, anal, or vaginal penetration by another person or object (excluding medical treatments)
• Mental Disability/Incapacitation: mental disease or disorder that prevents judgement, intoxicated by a substance, or physically unable to communicate.
• Mentally Incapacitated: incapable of understanding conduct.

Unit 2: Lesson 9: Human Trafficking

• Human Trafficking: the act of recruiting, harboring, providing, enticing, maintaining, purchasing, or obtaining a person for the purpose of exploitation (includes labor and commercial sex).
• Coercion: threats or use of force.
• Fraud: false or deceptive offers of employment, marriage, or better life.

Unit 2: Lesson 10: Respond to a Death

• Manner of death: Cause of death and how it happened. Natural, accident, suicide, homicide, undetermined.
• Causes of death: Injury or disease leading to death.
• Death scene: Immediately document the scene as you arrive and how the deceased is positioned without interfering with body evidence
• ME or physician notification: Procedures and policies for death scene notification and identification

Unit 2: Lesson 11: Robbery

• Robbery: unlawful taking of property by use or threat of force.
• Home-invasion robbery: suspect enters a victim's home while they're present and intentionally commits robbery.
• Carjacking: suspect forcefully takes a vehicle.

Test your knowledge on essential actions and considerations during crime scene investigations. This quiz covers topics such as victim interaction, evidence collection, and the responsibilities of officers. It's designed for those studying criminal justice and law enforcement.