Introduction to Policing
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Self-check questions and answers
1. How many criminal homicides are recorded in England and Wales each year? What proportion are ‘cleared up’?
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90 per cent of the 700 or so criminal homicides that occur in England and Wales each year are cleared up
2. What did Maguire (2008) argue was a recurring myth relating to criminal investigations?
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3. Which were the three biggest public sector employees of fraud investigators?
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4. Which nineteenth-century piece of legislation boosted trade for private detectives?
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5. According to Stelfox (2009), how much time did routine police patrol officers spend on preliminary investigations?
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6. What four ‘commands’ form the core of work coordinated by the National Crime Agency?
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7. What does research suggest is the aspect of investigation most significant to resolving cases?
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8. Who developed the ‘Exchange Principle’ that any contact between two materials leads to the transfer of trace elements between them?
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9. In response to which crimes were genetic fingerprinting techniques first applied?
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10. Whose study of investigations of drug crime found that detectives regarded the completion of robust paperwork as central to the preparation of evidence?
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