CCJA CUMULATIVE LATEST EVALUATION EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Child Abuse and Neglect - ✔✔- child abuse, neglect, or harm occurs, when the
parent, guardian, or other person responsible for the child's welfare:
- inflicts or allows to be inflicted physical or mental injury or engages in act or omissions
which present a substantial risk of physical or mental injury to the child excluding
injuries sustained as a result of excessive corporal punishment
- excessive corporal punishment
- commits or allows to be committed against the child a sexual offense
- fails to provide the child with adequate food, clothing, shelter, or education
- supervision appropriate to the child's age and development
- failure to provide healthcare though financially able to do so and the failure to do so
presents a substantial risk of causing physical or mental injury
✔✔Corporal Punishment - ✔✔- is administered by a parent or person in loco parentis
- is perpetrated for the sole purpose of restraining or correcting the child
- is reasonable in manner and moderate in degree
- has not brought about permanent or lasting damage
- is not reckless or grossly negligent behavior by the parents
,✔✔Vulnerability of Children - ✔✔- the child shows sudden changes in behavior at
school or home
- the child has not received help for physical or medical problem that has been brought
to the attention of the parents
- the child is always watchful as if preparing for something bad to happen
- lacks supervision
- is reluctant or afraid to be around a certain person
✔✔Indicators of Parental Maltreatment - ✔✔- the parent denies the existence of any
problems or issues the child may be having at home or school
- sees he child as being a bad kid, worthless, always causing problems
- demands a level of academic or physical performance that the child is unable to
achieve
- shows little concern for the child
✔✔How Children Experience Their Abuse - ✔✔- They may not be able to protect
themselves because of their physical, mental, or emotional development,
- These crimes are committed in private places, one on one, so there are no witnesses
and no accomplices
- The children do not like talking about the abuse and as a result they may delay
disclosure or only tell part of the story
- Many times there is an emotional bond between offender and child. The child wants
the abuse to stop but does not want the offender punished.
- There is often no medical evidence of the abuse
- Children are often viewed as less credible than the offender
✔✔The case most often encountered by first responding officers involving children is: -
✔✔Physical Abuse
✔✔Which cases involving children are the hardest to investigate because there is
usually no physical evidence, and it becomes the word of the victim against the
offender? - ✔✔Sexual assault cases
✔✔Child Molester - ✔✔a significantly older individual who engages in any type of
sexual activity with individuals legally defined as children
✔✔Pedophile - ✔✔A person who has a sexual preference for children. Diagnostic
criteria for pedophilia require there be fantasies, urges, or behaviors that are intense
and sexually arousing and all of which involves prepubescent children aged 13 or
younger.
✔✔Sexual Victimization of Children - ✔✔A broad term used to encompass all the ways
in which a child can be victimized such as the sexual abuse of children, sexual
exploitation of children, sexual assault of children, and sexual abduction of children.
,✔✔Sexual Exploitation of Children - ✔✔- Forms of victimization involving significant and
complex dynamics that go beyond an offender, victim, and sexual act.
- Includes victimization involving sex rings, child pornography, use of technology such
as computers, the internet and digital storage devices, sex tourism, and child
prostitution.
✔✔Situational Child Molester - ✔✔- Does not have a sexual preference for children
- Likely to view and be aroused by adult pornography
- They molest children they have easy access to and control over such as children
within their own home
✔✔Situational Child Molester Identifiers - ✔✔- Less intelligent
- Criminal sexual behavior is sometimes based on basic sexual need such as lust or
horniness. Their nonsexual need is based on power and anger
- Their sexual behavior is often opportunistic and impulsive
- Their verbal skills are lower and they are likely to use physical violence to control their
victims
- They feel entitled to have sex and their preferred victims are pubescent teens, which
are high risk targets, or younger children because they are weak, vulnerable, or
available
✔✔Preferential Child Molester - ✔✔- These are individuals who have a sexual
preference for children which includes a preference for gender, age, and ethnicity
- Responsible for the highest number of victimizations
- More predictable and less criminally intelligent
- More likely to keep souvenirs from their victims
- When confronted about their behavior, they are more likely to make a need driven deal
with law enforcement to avoid public disclosure
- Children are their focus, and they will seek them out at EVERY OPPORTUNITY
✔✔Types of Preferential Child Molesters - ✔✔SEDUCTION: most common
INTROVERTED: usually children that they don't know (especially young)
SADISTIC: more likely to abduct and kill victim
✔✔Authority to Interview - ✔✔-The department or law enforcement, or both may
interview the child alleged to have been abused or neglected and any other child in the
household during the investigation.
- The interviews may be conducted on school premises, childcare facilities, at the child's
home or other suitable location and may be conducted outside the presence of the
parents.
✔✔Forensic Interviewing - ✔✔MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE INVESTIGATION
, - Should be conducted by someone who is trained.
✔✔Elements of a Forensic Interview - ✔✔- Rapport
- Anatomy Identification
- Touch Inquiry
- Abuse Scenario
- Closure
✔✔Emergency Protective Custody (for Children) - ✔✔- DSS and local law enforcement
agencies shall develop written protocols to address the issues relating to emergency
protective custody.
- EPC means the right to physical custody of a child for a temporary period of no more
than 24 hours to protect the child from IMMINENT DANGER.
✔✔DSS shall conduct a preliminary investigation to determine whether grounds for
assuming legal custody of the child exist within ____________ after the child has been
taken into EPC. - ✔✔24 hours
✔✔The 24 hours that DSS has to conduct a preliminary hearing after a child has been
taken into EPC can be extended IF: - ✔✔- the child is to be placed with a relative
- DSS requests law enforcement to check records on the relative or others living in the
home
- or law enforcement requests additional time to check those records
✔✔EPC and Medical Issues - ✔✔- if a child is in need of medical care at the time of
EPC the officer can have the child taken in for medical treatment without consent of the
parent or guardian
- a physician or hospital which has had a child brought to them for treatment and
suspect child abuse may hold that child for up to 24 hours but MUST notify law
enforcement
✔✔Upon receipt of a report of domestic violence, law enforcement may report this
information to _____________. - ✔✔DSS
✔✔Custodial Interference - ✔✔When a court has awarded custody of a child under the
age of 16, it is unlawful for a person with the intent to violate this order to take or
transport or cause to be taken or transported the child from the legal guardian to avoid
the custody order or statute.
✔✔Paternity - ✔✔Unless the court orders otherwise, the custody of an illegitimate child
is solely in the natural mother unless the mother has relinquished her rights to the child.
If paternity has been acknowledged or adjudicated, the father may petition the court for
rights or visitation or custody in a proceeding before the court apart from an action to
establish paternity.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Child Abuse and Neglect - ✔✔- child abuse, neglect, or harm occurs, when the
parent, guardian, or other person responsible for the child's welfare:
- inflicts or allows to be inflicted physical or mental injury or engages in act or omissions
which present a substantial risk of physical or mental injury to the child excluding
injuries sustained as a result of excessive corporal punishment
- excessive corporal punishment
- commits or allows to be committed against the child a sexual offense
- fails to provide the child with adequate food, clothing, shelter, or education
- supervision appropriate to the child's age and development
- failure to provide healthcare though financially able to do so and the failure to do so
presents a substantial risk of causing physical or mental injury
✔✔Corporal Punishment - ✔✔- is administered by a parent or person in loco parentis
- is perpetrated for the sole purpose of restraining or correcting the child
- is reasonable in manner and moderate in degree
- has not brought about permanent or lasting damage
- is not reckless or grossly negligent behavior by the parents
,✔✔Vulnerability of Children - ✔✔- the child shows sudden changes in behavior at
school or home
- the child has not received help for physical or medical problem that has been brought
to the attention of the parents
- the child is always watchful as if preparing for something bad to happen
- lacks supervision
- is reluctant or afraid to be around a certain person
✔✔Indicators of Parental Maltreatment - ✔✔- the parent denies the existence of any
problems or issues the child may be having at home or school
- sees he child as being a bad kid, worthless, always causing problems
- demands a level of academic or physical performance that the child is unable to
achieve
- shows little concern for the child
✔✔How Children Experience Their Abuse - ✔✔- They may not be able to protect
themselves because of their physical, mental, or emotional development,
- These crimes are committed in private places, one on one, so there are no witnesses
and no accomplices
- The children do not like talking about the abuse and as a result they may delay
disclosure or only tell part of the story
- Many times there is an emotional bond between offender and child. The child wants
the abuse to stop but does not want the offender punished.
- There is often no medical evidence of the abuse
- Children are often viewed as less credible than the offender
✔✔The case most often encountered by first responding officers involving children is: -
✔✔Physical Abuse
✔✔Which cases involving children are the hardest to investigate because there is
usually no physical evidence, and it becomes the word of the victim against the
offender? - ✔✔Sexual assault cases
✔✔Child Molester - ✔✔a significantly older individual who engages in any type of
sexual activity with individuals legally defined as children
✔✔Pedophile - ✔✔A person who has a sexual preference for children. Diagnostic
criteria for pedophilia require there be fantasies, urges, or behaviors that are intense
and sexually arousing and all of which involves prepubescent children aged 13 or
younger.
✔✔Sexual Victimization of Children - ✔✔A broad term used to encompass all the ways
in which a child can be victimized such as the sexual abuse of children, sexual
exploitation of children, sexual assault of children, and sexual abduction of children.
,✔✔Sexual Exploitation of Children - ✔✔- Forms of victimization involving significant and
complex dynamics that go beyond an offender, victim, and sexual act.
- Includes victimization involving sex rings, child pornography, use of technology such
as computers, the internet and digital storage devices, sex tourism, and child
prostitution.
✔✔Situational Child Molester - ✔✔- Does not have a sexual preference for children
- Likely to view and be aroused by adult pornography
- They molest children they have easy access to and control over such as children
within their own home
✔✔Situational Child Molester Identifiers - ✔✔- Less intelligent
- Criminal sexual behavior is sometimes based on basic sexual need such as lust or
horniness. Their nonsexual need is based on power and anger
- Their sexual behavior is often opportunistic and impulsive
- Their verbal skills are lower and they are likely to use physical violence to control their
victims
- They feel entitled to have sex and their preferred victims are pubescent teens, which
are high risk targets, or younger children because they are weak, vulnerable, or
available
✔✔Preferential Child Molester - ✔✔- These are individuals who have a sexual
preference for children which includes a preference for gender, age, and ethnicity
- Responsible for the highest number of victimizations
- More predictable and less criminally intelligent
- More likely to keep souvenirs from their victims
- When confronted about their behavior, they are more likely to make a need driven deal
with law enforcement to avoid public disclosure
- Children are their focus, and they will seek them out at EVERY OPPORTUNITY
✔✔Types of Preferential Child Molesters - ✔✔SEDUCTION: most common
INTROVERTED: usually children that they don't know (especially young)
SADISTIC: more likely to abduct and kill victim
✔✔Authority to Interview - ✔✔-The department or law enforcement, or both may
interview the child alleged to have been abused or neglected and any other child in the
household during the investigation.
- The interviews may be conducted on school premises, childcare facilities, at the child's
home or other suitable location and may be conducted outside the presence of the
parents.
✔✔Forensic Interviewing - ✔✔MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE INVESTIGATION
, - Should be conducted by someone who is trained.
✔✔Elements of a Forensic Interview - ✔✔- Rapport
- Anatomy Identification
- Touch Inquiry
- Abuse Scenario
- Closure
✔✔Emergency Protective Custody (for Children) - ✔✔- DSS and local law enforcement
agencies shall develop written protocols to address the issues relating to emergency
protective custody.
- EPC means the right to physical custody of a child for a temporary period of no more
than 24 hours to protect the child from IMMINENT DANGER.
✔✔DSS shall conduct a preliminary investigation to determine whether grounds for
assuming legal custody of the child exist within ____________ after the child has been
taken into EPC. - ✔✔24 hours
✔✔The 24 hours that DSS has to conduct a preliminary hearing after a child has been
taken into EPC can be extended IF: - ✔✔- the child is to be placed with a relative
- DSS requests law enforcement to check records on the relative or others living in the
home
- or law enforcement requests additional time to check those records
✔✔EPC and Medical Issues - ✔✔- if a child is in need of medical care at the time of
EPC the officer can have the child taken in for medical treatment without consent of the
parent or guardian
- a physician or hospital which has had a child brought to them for treatment and
suspect child abuse may hold that child for up to 24 hours but MUST notify law
enforcement
✔✔Upon receipt of a report of domestic violence, law enforcement may report this
information to _____________. - ✔✔DSS
✔✔Custodial Interference - ✔✔When a court has awarded custody of a child under the
age of 16, it is unlawful for a person with the intent to violate this order to take or
transport or cause to be taken or transported the child from the legal guardian to avoid
the custody order or statute.
✔✔Paternity - ✔✔Unless the court orders otherwise, the custody of an illegitimate child
is solely in the natural mother unless the mother has relinquished her rights to the child.
If paternity has been acknowledged or adjudicated, the father may petition the court for
rights or visitation or custody in a proceeding before the court apart from an action to
establish paternity.
