Review 1

Criminal Detection and Investigation

Test III. Identification

Provide each number with the correct answer.
Write your answer at the back.
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1. Fire was derived from this Greek word which means glowing ember.
2. It is an element which burns and the most important part of the fire triangle.
3. Asbestos_____ and naphthalene balls are solid which have no ignition temperature
making them fire proof materials.
4. A device or means to start a fire.
5. The ratio of the weight of the liquid or the solid substance to the weight of an equal
volume of water.
6. Refers to any immoral conduct or habit the indulgence of which leads to depravity
wickedness and corruption of the mind and body.
7. Condition where a person from prolonged and excessive use of alcoholic beverages,
develops physical and psychological changes and dependence to alcohol.
8. When a drunken person does not know the intoxicating strength of the substance he
has taken.
9. Condition when a person finds that drinking is a constant and necessary vice,
ultimately taking hold of him.
10. It is manifested where there is reddening of the face. In this condition there is no sign
impairment, lack of coordination and difficulty in speech.
11. As a clerk in the Paris police records office, Alphonse Bertillon developed this
method of identification of criminals by measuring their heads and bodies.
12. A methodological description of the face to identify criminals which was also devised
by Alphonse Bertillon.
13. It can record the details of crime scene, and can preserve evidence which can be used
to vividly recreate a crime.
14. Worn in crime scene searching for evidences to prevent material clothing from a
searcher`s clothing contaminating the scene, after use they are often examined for
residual evidence.
15. It can be used on certain porous surfaces to avoid the need for chemical treatment;
they have no bristles and apply a dust containing iron filings that adhere to the greasy
sweat deposits, as effective means of recovering fingerprints in the crime scene.
16. It is commonly referred to as the enemy within the 2nd government, the 5th state or
crime confederation.
17. Known as Cosa Nostra, or the “Mob”.
18. It prohibits the common man, woman or child to cooperate at all with the police or the
government, upon pain of death.
19. A title of respect given to a senior or retired member, equivalent to being a member
emeritus.
20. In the Mafia organization, it is a term which refers to an advisor.
21. The skulls of these people are generally high and wide in appearance. The check
bones do not project, and nor does the jaw – it falls behind a line dropped vertically
from the forehead.
22. This long molecule forms our genes or our genetic code. Made up of four bases two
of them adenine and guanine are purines the other two cytosine and thymine are
pyrimidine’s. Bases always occur in pairs of purines and pyrimidine banded together,
A with T and G with C.
23. The nickname of the serial killer who murdered 7 prostitutes in London`s Whitchapel
neighbourhood in 1888. His grisly signature was the partial dissection of his victims
and this triggered the first attempt to criminal act psychological profiling.
24. It assumes that criminals will have backgrounds and motives similar to those of other
serial offenders who have behaved in the same way.
25. It is a computer tool that presents police with information on where a certain crimes
are being committed. Linking charting enables detectives to plot the relationship
between criminals and their activities.
26. In homicide cases is necessary to show the relative position, relation of the body in
surroundings.
27. Before removal at the crime scene each item and evidences should individually
photograph to establish the relation of such materials with the place wherein the crime
was committed.
28. The significance portion wherein the evidence was discovered as well as the special
techniques employed in the locating them should also be taken.
29. A term which pertains of the police officer who first arrives at the crime scene.
30. A procedure conducted by the coroner which aims to discover the causes of death.
31. An exclusive function such as planning, organizing, directing, supervising
coordinating operating, recording and budgeting the affairs of traffic.
32. The movement of persons, goods and vehicle from the place to another place.
33. Prescribed and regulates transport routes; and has the power to grant, deny suspend or
cancel land transport franchise.
34. A devise mounted on the portable support whether a message in conveyed by a means
of the word or the symbols officially erected or installed for the purpose of regulating,
warning or guide traffic.
35. To inform users of the certain laws and regulation a violation of which constitute
misdemeanour.
36. Refers to the greatest collapse or overlap in collision.
37. Any motor vehicle accident that result in death to one or more person.
38. Any accident occurring entirely at any place other than on the traffic way.
39. An occurrence in the sequence of the evens, which usually produced unintended
injury, death or property damage.
40. It is means of having a behavior a violator appear in the court without physical arrest.