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Criminal Investigation, 8/e

Charles R. Swanson, University of Georgia
Neil C. Chamelin, Assistant State Attorney, Second Judicial Circuit
Leonard Territo, University of South Florida- Tampa

The Evolution of Criminal Investigation and Criminalistics

Multiple Choice Quiz


1	Which of the following were not reasons for public demands for governmental measures to control crime in eighteenth century England?
		A)	Improvements in agriculture
		B)	Population growth in the cities
		C)	Growth of slums in the cities
		D)	Industrial Revolution


2	The ______________ were Londoners that hurried to the scenes of reported crimes and began investigations.
		A)	Covent Garden Journal
		B)	Bow Street Runners
		C)	Bobbies
		D)	Scotland Yard


3	Which American city passed an ordinance establishing America’s first paid, daylight police force?
		A)	Philadelphia
		B)	New York City
		C)	Chicago
		D)	New Orleans


4	Which of the following are among the recorded achievements of the Pinkerton detective agency?
		A)	Creating the blue uniforms American police officers eventually adopted.
		B)	Development of a rogues’ gallery
		C)	Discovering and foiling an assassination attempt on President-Elect Lincoln.
		D)	Founding of the U.S. Secret Service


5	Which of the following were instituted by Chief Detective Thomas Byrnes in an effort to assist New York City police detectives recognize criminals?
		A)	Mulberry Street Morning Parade
		B)	Anthropometry
		C)	Pinkerton
		D)	Due process revolution


6	Which of the following are responsibilities of the U.S. Secret Service?
		A)	Combat counterfeiting
		B)	Follow-up investigation of Internal Revenue Service matters
		C)	Guard the governors of each state.
		D)	Investigation of bootleggers


7	Which of the following were the major scientific systems for personal identification of criminals?
		A)	Anthropometry, dactylography, and RNA typing
		B)	Anthropometry, dactylography and DNA typing
		C)	Anthropometry, the Bertillon system, and DNA typing
		D)	All of the above


8	What is the term utilized to describe the scientific study of fingerprints as a means of criminal identification?
		A)	Henry system
		B)	West case
		C)	Rogues gallery
		D)	Dactylography


9	_______________ was the first country to utilize dactylography as a means of criminal identification.
		A)	China
		B)	Persia
		C)	Ancient Rome
		D)	England


10	Which of the following statements regarding fingerprint is most accurate?
		A)	Fingerprinting was utilized on official papers in fourteenth century England.
		B)	The first country to use fingerprinting as a method of criminal identification was China.
		C)	John Perkinje named nine standard types of fingerprint patters in 1823.
		D)	Ancient Rome


11	Who published perhaps the first reported findings on the potential use of fingerprints for criminal identification?
		A)	Sir Francis Galton
		B)	Henry Faulds
		C)	Juan Vucetich
		D)	William Herschel


12	The final breakthrough for the fingerprint method of personal identification was made by _______________________.
		A)	Edward Henry
		B)	Sir Francis Galton
		C)	Joseph Faurot
		D)	William Herschel


13	Which region of the world might now utilize the Vucetich system?
		A)	England
		B)	United States
		C)	South America
		D)	India


14	Which of the following best describes the significance of the Lydia Mann case?
		A)	It was the first time DNA typing was used in a criminal case.
		B)	It was the first time the Henry system was used in a criminal case.
		C)	It was the first time the Vucetich system was used in a criminal case.
		D)	It was solved by using the Bertillon system.


15	Which case first used DNA typing in the United States?
		A)	Mann
		B)	Orlando
		C)	Vucetich
		D)	Enderby


16	The increase in the frequency of shooting in the United States has made__________ extremely important.
		A)	Fingerprint identification
		B)	DNA typing
		C)	Ammunition typing
		D)	Firearms identification


17	Who is credited with making the first successful attempt to identify a murderer from a bullet recovered from the body of the victim?
		A)	Henry Goddard
		B)	Paul Jeserich
		C)	Calvin Goddard
		D)	Charles Waite


18	___________________ established the first full forensic laboratory in the United States.
		A)	Paul Kirk
		B)	August Vollmer
		C)	John Fisher
		D)	None of the above


19	What is the significance of the Harrison Act?
		A)	It made distribution of non-medical drugs a federal crime.
		B)	It created the DEA.
		C)	It created the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.
		D)	It created the FBI.


20	Which of the following best describes the parallels between J. Edgar Hoover and Allan Pinkerton?
		A)	Both were Directors of the FBI
		B)	Both ran the Pinkerton detective agency
		C)	Both were pioneers in DNA typing
		D)	Both understood the importance and uses of information, records and publicity.


21	The first useable ___________ was produced in 1921.
		A)	Polygraph
		B)	Blood typing procedure
		C)	Microscopic evidence
		D)	Forensic laboratory


22	The standard treatise for the field of criminal investigation developed by Harry Soderman and John O’Connell was _____________________.
		A)	Crime Investigation
		B)	Modern Criminal Investigation.
		C)	Questioned Documents
		D)	Classification and Use of Fingerprints


23	The undisputed father of criminal identification is _____________________.
		A)	Allan Pinkerton
		B)	J. Edgar Hoover
		C)	Alphonse Bertillon
		D)	Edward Rucker


24	Which of the following statements is most accurate?
		A)	Pinkerton was a government agency.
		B)	DNA typing guarantees convictions.
		C)	The FBI is the only crime laboratory capable of analyzing DNA evidence.
		D)	The FBI was the first public sector laboratory to accept DNA evidence for analysis.


25	What was the first step in the evolution of firearms identification?
		A)	Bullet analysis
		B)	Distance analysis
		C)	Cartridge analysis.
		D)	DNA typing.

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