CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
VERIFIED
●● Criminal Investigation
Answer: is the process of discovering, collecting, preparing, identifying,
and presenting evidence to determine what happened and who is
responsible.
●● Deductive reasoning
Answer: to arrive at a conclusion based on specific facts.
●● Crime
Answer: act or omission forbidden by law and punishable by a fine,
imprisonment, or even death; crimes and their penalties are established
and defined by state and federal statutes and local ordinances.
●● Felony
Answer: serious crime such as homicide, aggravated assault, or robbery;
generally punishable by death or imprisonment of more than one year in
a penitentiary.
, ●● misdemeanor
Answer: crime or offense that is less serious than a felony and is
punishable by a fine or imprisonment of as long as one year in an
institution other than a penitentiary.
●● Criminal Statute
Answer: legislative act relating to crime and its punishment.
●● Ordinance
Answer: act of the legislative body of a municipality or county relating
to all the rules governing the municipality or county, including
misdemeanor crimes.
●● Elements of a crime
Answer: specific conditions that must occur for an act to be called a
specific kind of crime.
●● Criminalistic
Answer: specialists trained in recording, identifying, and interpreting the
minutiae (minute details) of physical evidence.
●● Forensic science
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
VERIFIED
●● Criminal Investigation
Answer: is the process of discovering, collecting, preparing, identifying,
and presenting evidence to determine what happened and who is
responsible.
●● Deductive reasoning
Answer: to arrive at a conclusion based on specific facts.
●● Crime
Answer: act or omission forbidden by law and punishable by a fine,
imprisonment, or even death; crimes and their penalties are established
and defined by state and federal statutes and local ordinances.
●● Felony
Answer: serious crime such as homicide, aggravated assault, or robbery;
generally punishable by death or imprisonment of more than one year in
a penitentiary.
, ●● misdemeanor
Answer: crime or offense that is less serious than a felony and is
punishable by a fine or imprisonment of as long as one year in an
institution other than a penitentiary.
●● Criminal Statute
Answer: legislative act relating to crime and its punishment.
●● Ordinance
Answer: act of the legislative body of a municipality or county relating
to all the rules governing the municipality or county, including
misdemeanor crimes.
●● Elements of a crime
Answer: specific conditions that must occur for an act to be called a
specific kind of crime.
●● Criminalistic
Answer: specialists trained in recording, identifying, and interpreting the
minutiae (minute details) of physical evidence.
●● Forensic science
