1.
Which is true regarding police interviews?
Correct Answer
A. The tone of a police interview should be formal but somewhat relaxed
2.
Which parties are typically subjects of police interviews?
Correct Answer(s)
A. Victims
B. Suspects
C. Informants
D. Witnesses
3.
In preparing questions in advance of an interview, which kind of questions should be relied on the most?
Correct Answer
C. Open-ended questions
4.
Which procedures are recommended for officers to follow as they conduct an interview?
Correct Answer
C. Take only brief notes during the interview itself, such as names, addresses, and key phrases
5.
What is the best location to question a NEW informant?
Correct Answer
B. A motel room
6.
If a confession was rules inadmissable by a court of law because someone had been deprived of food and water for many hours before confessing, their treatment would be best described as _______
Correct Answer
A. Duress
7.
Depriving suspects of food, water, or sleep in order to force a confession is a violation of which amendment?
Correct Answer
D. Fourteenth
8.
Which case dealt with the issue of unnecessary delay in making arraignments?
Correct Answer
B. Mallory v. United States
9.
Which factors are used to interpret the accuracy of a polygraph exam?
Correct Answer(s)
A. Validity
C. Reliability
10.
Which combination of traits will most accurately predict that a suspect is telling the truth?
Correct Answer
B. Head tilted, hand on chin, eyebrows raised
11.
A confession is the most important piece of evidence in the prosecution's case against a defendant
Correct Answer
A. True
12.
The Miranda warning applies only to custodial interrogations, not when the suspect is free to leave
Correct Answer
A. True
13.
Interrogations must be conducted in a private setting
Correct Answer
A. True
14.
A suspect says to a police interrogator, "Did I kill him? What if I did? You have no proof." His comments are an admission of guilt but not a confession
Correct Answer
A. True
15.
A written statement of confession should contain all of the crimes committed simultaneously by a suspect
Correct Answer
B. False
16.
A face-saving approach during an interrogation has the officer making several comments that downplay the suspect's own involvement in the crime
Correct Answer
A. True
17.
An interview should precede every interrogation. Information can be gained to prepare themes or arguments to use during interrogations.
Correct Answer
A. True
18.
An interview is nonaccusatory and an interrogation is accusatory
Correct Answer
A. True
19.
It is during the ___________ of the interview that the investigator's personality will be tested rigorously
Correct Answer
A. Preliminary phase
20.
It is the job of the interviewer to listen closely and evaluate not just what is being said but ____ it is being said
Correct Answer
A. How
21.
_______ is defined as the use, or threat of use, of illegal physical methods to induce a suspect to make an admission or confession. Found to be a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment in the case of Brown v. Mississippi (1936)
Correct Answer
A. Coercion
22.
Fear tactics that include direct threats, intimidation, or actual physical abuse have been known to corece suspects into falsely confessing guilt of a crime. According to Richard Conti, such confessions are referred to as ___________
Correct Answer
A. Coerced-compliant confessions
23.
A technique known as ________ is the exaggeration of evidence available, telling the person that the interrogator knows he or she is guilty or stressing the consequences of the crime
Correct Answer
A. Maximization
24.
The maximization technique can sometimes lead to false confessions. It occurs mostly in highly suggestible and confused suspects who actually begin to believe they are guilty of a crime they didnt commit. This is called _________
Correct Answer
A. Coerced internalization
25.
An officer making an arrest must take the accused, without necessary delay, before the nearest available magistrate and an official complaint must be filed without delay. This decision is based on the due process clause of the _______ Amendment
Correct Answer
D. Fourteenth
26.
The cases of _________ and __________ are the most referred to in regards to a suspects right to legal counsel
Correct Answer(s)
A. Miranda v. Arizona
B. Escobedo v. Illinois
27.
Interrogation refers to any actions or remarks made by police that are designed to elicit an incriminating response
Correct Answer
A. True
28.
The public safety exception to Miranda was ruled on in ___________. This decision found that police officers who are reasonably concerned for public safety (ex. locating a dropped firearm) may question persons who are in custody and who have not been read Miranda warnings. The court ruled that if Miranda warnings had deterred the suspect from giving the information, the cost to society would have been much greater than the simple loss of evidence.
Correct Answer
A. New York v. Quarles
29.
A key psychological factor contributing to successful interrogation is ______
Correct Answer
A. Privacy
30.
This style of interrogation will persuade the suspect that cooperation is the only way the charges against them can be lessened.
Correct Answer
A. Logical style
31.
This style of interrogation will stimulate feelings of self-pity in the suspect when they blame others for their plight.
Correct Answer
B. Sympathetic style
32.
This style of interrogation suggests the interrogator would rather see the suspect punished severely by the court rather than give him or her the opportunity to gain leniency through cooperation
Correct Answer
C. Indifferent style
33.
This style of interrogation systematically rationalizes the suspect's actions up to the point of the violation, describing them as natural consequences of some other problem, to get the suspect to start talking about his or her actions
Correct Answer
D. Face-saving style
34.
This style of interrogation encourages the suspect to brag about their involvement in the crime and to provide additional details to try and impress the investigator.
Correct Answer
E. Egotistical style
35.
Liars often lie by using specifics
Correct Answer
A. True
36.
When individuals tell the truth, they often make every effort to ensure that other people understand. In contrast, liars attempt to manage others' perceptions
Correct Answer
A. True
37.
The _________ is a dodger who is unsure just how much the investigator knows about a crime. They typically respond by saying "I can't remember" or "to the best of my recollection". This technique gives the person a way out in case he or she is later confronted with contradictory evidence.
Correct Answer
A. Loophole liar
38.
A major reason that suspects willingly accompany or meet police at the police station is because:
Correct Answer
A. They want to know exactly what the investigator knows about the crime
39.
A(n) _______ is a self-incriminating statement made by the suspect that falls short of an acknowledgement of guilt
Correct Answer
B. Admission
40.
In approximately ___% of the wrongful convictions overturned with DNA evidence, defendants made false confessions, admissions, or statements to law enforcement officials
Correct Answer
A. 25
41.
The __________ technique is used for eliciting information from victims and witnesses, opposed to obtaining confessions from suspects
Correct Answer
A. Cognitive interview
42.
The two major subtypes of cognitive interviwing methods are:
Correct Answer(s)
A. Think aloud interviewing
B. Verbal probing techniques
43.
The advantages of the ___________ are that the investigator can control the interview with relative ease, and the subject of the interview can easily adjust to the method used by the investigator
Correct Answer
B. Verbal probing technique
44.
The investigator should have a suspect make a written statement to multiple crimes if he confesses to them
Correct Answer
B. False
45.
An investigator should obtain a seperate written statement for each crime committed by a suspect
Correct Answer
A. True
46.
After a suspect signs a statement, it is best to have as many witnesses as are available to sign that they have witnessed him make and sign the statement.
Correct Answer
B. False
Explanation
No more than two
47.
When recording a statement from a suspect, an investigator should first conduct an interrogation without it being recorded then re-do it using information gained from the interrogation.
Correct Answer
A. True
48.
A recap of a suspects final confessions generally lasts _________
Correct Answer
A. 15 to 45 minutes
49.
A polygraph can only detect certain changes in the human body, and estimates are that such changes can be detected up to ____ percent of the time
Correct Answer
A. 95
50.
The Voice Stress Analyzer (VSA) has no known countermeasures that will cause "inconclusive" results associated with the polygraph
Correct Answer
A. True