CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION OFFICIAL FINAL
EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2026.
⫸ what is incorrperation of the bill of rights Answer: the process by
which the bill of rights and its protections are applied to the states.
⫸ What is the vehicle that applies due process of the Bill of Rights to
the states? Answer: the due process cluase of the 14th amendment
⫸ What was the period when due process entered the Supreme Court
in terms of the rights of criminals, and what was its focus? Answer:
from 1961-1966 when the sepreme cause became overly active in
diccusing the rights of criminals suspeects and defendants. this period
resulted in the creation of new proceudrs, tattics, and training for law
officers to reduce questionable practices, as well as tighted the
professionanlism of police officers.
⫸ What was the focus of the due process revolution Answer:
searches and seizure as well as the right to legal representation.
⫸ What is evidence Answer: anything that tends to logically proves
or disprove a fact as issues in a jucial case of controversy.
⫸ Who is Edmond Locard and what was his contribution to forensics
Answer: he established the first forensics lab, and created the
principles that aperpotartor at a crime will leave somthing and take
, somthing. this created a foundation for how investegators investiagte
a crime scene.
⫸ What was the old method of anthropometry for identification
Answer: taking ones body measurements
⫸ What was the old method of dactylography Answer: criminal
identication through fingerprints.
⫸ What was the old method of deoxyribonucleic acid Answer: this
was criminacl identification through DNA typing, which is the first
used in the US to identify suspect colin pitchfork. his DNA ended up
not being a match to edivence to the true criminal tommie lee. becme
the first to be convited off of DNA evidence
⫸ what is DNA Answer: chemical blue print that determines a
perons charectoristics such as hair color. every person has distict
DNA, and is identical in every cell of the same human body
⫸ What is touch DNA, and how can it be destroyed Answer: dna
transferred to items that a suspect hadled. it can be destroyed through
misdirection of investigations, secondary transfers.
⫸ what is AFIT Answer: advanced fingerprint identication
technology. took over afis in the nest geration idenfication. all finiger
prints are stored here. it is a quicker way for law enforcment to
identify and campre fingerprint samples. this is possible through the
digitized scanning of fingerprint patterns, spacing and ridges.
EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2026.
⫸ what is incorrperation of the bill of rights Answer: the process by
which the bill of rights and its protections are applied to the states.
⫸ What is the vehicle that applies due process of the Bill of Rights to
the states? Answer: the due process cluase of the 14th amendment
⫸ What was the period when due process entered the Supreme Court
in terms of the rights of criminals, and what was its focus? Answer:
from 1961-1966 when the sepreme cause became overly active in
diccusing the rights of criminals suspeects and defendants. this period
resulted in the creation of new proceudrs, tattics, and training for law
officers to reduce questionable practices, as well as tighted the
professionanlism of police officers.
⫸ What was the focus of the due process revolution Answer:
searches and seizure as well as the right to legal representation.
⫸ What is evidence Answer: anything that tends to logically proves
or disprove a fact as issues in a jucial case of controversy.
⫸ Who is Edmond Locard and what was his contribution to forensics
Answer: he established the first forensics lab, and created the
principles that aperpotartor at a crime will leave somthing and take
, somthing. this created a foundation for how investegators investiagte
a crime scene.
⫸ What was the old method of anthropometry for identification
Answer: taking ones body measurements
⫸ What was the old method of dactylography Answer: criminal
identication through fingerprints.
⫸ What was the old method of deoxyribonucleic acid Answer: this
was criminacl identification through DNA typing, which is the first
used in the US to identify suspect colin pitchfork. his DNA ended up
not being a match to edivence to the true criminal tommie lee. becme
the first to be convited off of DNA evidence
⫸ what is DNA Answer: chemical blue print that determines a
perons charectoristics such as hair color. every person has distict
DNA, and is identical in every cell of the same human body
⫸ What is touch DNA, and how can it be destroyed Answer: dna
transferred to items that a suspect hadled. it can be destroyed through
misdirection of investigations, secondary transfers.
⫸ what is AFIT Answer: advanced fingerprint identication
technology. took over afis in the nest geration idenfication. all finiger
prints are stored here. it is a quicker way for law enforcment to
identify and campre fingerprint samples. this is possible through the
digitized scanning of fingerprint patterns, spacing and ridges.
