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19 Cards in this Set
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The science of tracking the path of a bullet.
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Ballistics
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An early criminal identification or classification system based on the idea that certain aspects of the human body, such as skeletal size, ear shape, and eye color remained the same after a person has reached full developmental maturity. This system used a combination of photographs with standardized physical measurements.
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Bertillon System
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The name of London Metropolitan Police Department officers. They were named this after the department's founder, Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel.
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Bobbies
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A group of English crime fighters formed by Henry Fielding during the 18th century.
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Bow Street Runners
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The process of generating computer models to predict a terrorists actions.
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Data Mining
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The ability to draw conclusions based on critical thinking.
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Deductive Reasoning
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A process of using artificial intelligence by computers to make inferences based on available information and to draw conclusions or make recommendations to the system operators.
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Expert Systems
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Scientific examination of dental records.
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Forensic Dentistry
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Prevention through deterrence that is sometimes achieved by arresting the criminal and by aggressive prosecution.
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Preventive Response
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An investigative approach to crime solving in which criminal activity is investigated before it occurs.
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Proactive Response
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Lasting from 1920 to 1933, the period in which the manufacture, sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages was outlawed in the U.S.
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Prohibition
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The illegal carrying or enticing away of a person, especially by interfering with a relationship, as the taking of a child from a parent.
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Abduction
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Reasoning from detailed facts to general principles; generalization.
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Inductive Reasoning
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An approach to crime solving that addresses crimes that have already occurred, such as a murder, robbery and burglary.
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Reactive Response
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Databases that permit fast and easy sorting of large records.
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Relational Databases
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A compilation of descriptions, methods of operation, hiding places and the names of associates of know criminals in the 1850s.
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Rogues' Gallery
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One of the first criminal investigative bodies originally formed in England in the mid-nineteenth century.
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Scotland Yard
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The scientific analysis of blood.
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Serology
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People recruited from the riffraff of the streets to aid law enforcement in locating criminals during the European Industrial Revolution.
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Thief Catchers
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