CHAPTER O

Question 0

1. The misunderstanding of arson can be attributed to what factors

Answer 0

1. Lack of public educating concerning arson.
2. A reluctance for prosecutors to file arson cases that rely on circumstantial evidence.
3. Quick payments on fire loses.
4. A lack of adequate training for investigators.

Question 1

1. What is the height cost crime on a per basis incident.

2. What does the majority of arsonists involve.

Answer 1

1. Arson

2. The burning of a structure

Question 2

1. What happens at arson scenes

2. Why is arson difficult to establish.

Answer 2

1. The crime scene aren’t recognized and much evidence is destroyed
2. No witnesses.
3. Physical evidence is difficult to locate
4. Valuable evidence is destroyed in the blaze.
5. If the crime is executed properly. It is difficult to determine the point of origin.
6. Often the victim of the fire is the one who set it

Question 3

1. What are the two categories of arson

Answer 3

1. Aggravated arson.

2. Simple arson

Question 4

Aggravated arson.

Answer 4

Deliberate burning of property while creating an imminent danger to human life or risking great bodily harm

Question 5

Simple arson

Answer 5

A lesser offense. Is the burning of property. That does not result in such a risk to human life.

Question 6

1. What is the role of the fire department while investigating an arson

Answer 6

1. To determine cause and origin

Question 7

1. Who are the majority of firemen

2. What are they trained in and not trained in

Answer 7

1. Volunteer

2. They are trained in suppressing fires. Not investigating them

Question 8

1. When is a suspicious fire usually discovered.
2. What is the fire departments role at that point 3
3. What does the fire Dept NOT investigate.
4. Why not
5. When the arson becomes a question of who committed the crime who handles it

Answer 8

1. While it’s being extinguished.
3. Extinguish the fire
4. Investigate the origin of the fire
5. Detect the possibility of arson.
6. The arson.
7. The fire department does not have legal authority to investigate arson fires. Just assist in it.
8. The police.

Question 9

1. What is the investigator role when investigating an arson
2. What is the goal of the investigator

Answer 9

1. The police investigator has a stationary role.
2. Identity the perp
3. And secure evidence to prosecute

Question 10

1. What is the key for an investigator to do while investigating an arson

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Answer 10

1. To connect the suspect with the crime scene. Regardless of motive

Question 11

1. What is the first step in an arson investigation.

2. Why is this important

Answer 11

1. To determine the point of origin.

2. Because it rules out natural or accidental causes

Question 12

1. Where is most of the crucial evidence located at an arson scene

Answer 12

1. At the point of origin.

Question 13

1. What can tell if a fire was set intentionally

2. What is accelerant

Answer 13

1. By finding an accelerant

2. A chemical which causes the fire to burn hotter snd and spread more quickly making it difficult to extinguish

Question 14

1. What are the most common types of accelerant 4.

2. What are two ways to discover accelerant in an arson

Answer 14

1. Gasoline.
2. Kerosene
3. Turpentine
4. Diesel fuel.
5. Sniffer dog
   2 and the headspace gas chromatography

Question 15

1. What should be taken at the scene of an arson.
2. Why.
3. What should be focused on

Answer 15

1. Photographs.
2. To record of the condition of the scene
4. Rags
5. Large amounts of paper.
6. Cans.
7. Empty receptacles.

Question 16

1. Identifying plants and trailers can provide clues. What are plants
2. What are trailers

Answer 16

1. Plants.- preparations used to set the fire. These include newspapers , rags, and other flammable waste materials.
2. Trailers. - materials used in spreading the fire. These include gunpowder , rags soaked in flammable liquid, and flammable liquid such as gasoline , kerosene and alcohol.

Question 17

1. What 4 things also may help indicate the fire is suspicious.

Answer 17

1. Flames.
2. Smoke.
3. Size of fire
4. Odors.

Question 18

1. How does flame color help
2. How does color of smoke help
3. How does size of flame help
4. How do odors help
5. What should investigators use at an arson scene

Answer 18

1. If flame that is a blue - orange flame represents burning alcohol.
2. Black smoke indicated the material is made with petroleum base.
   White smoke indicates vegetable matter is burning, such as hay or straw.
3. Structures engulfed in flames in a short time may indicate arson
   Flames of natural origin burn in definable patterns.
   So fires burning quickly or in an odd direction will indicate an accelerant.
4. Orders of gasoline , kerosene, and alcohol should be noted.
5. Their OLFACTORY SENSES.

Question 19

1. What are motives for arson

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Answer 19

1. Profit.
2. Revenge.
3. Vandalism.
4. Crime concealment
5. Pyromania

Question 20

1. What is the most common motive for arson
2. Who commits the most arson for vandalisms

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Answer 20

1. Profit

2. Juveniles

Question 21

1. What is pyromania

Answer 21

1. A person who is a compulsive fire starer. And gains sexual stimulation by starting and viewing fires

Question 22

1. What can compulsive fire setting be classified as. 3

Answer 22

1. Mass arsonist.
2. Spree arsonist.
3. Serial arsonist

Question 23

1. Mass arsonist.
2. Spree arsonist.
3. Serial arsonist

Answer 23

1. Sets 3 or more fires at the same location
2. Sets fires at three or more separate locations , with no cooling off period.
3. Sets three or more separate fires with a definate fooling off period in between them.

Question 24

Characteristics of a fire setter. 1. Age. 2. Sex 3. Race 4. Intelligence 5. Academic performance 6. Rearing environment 7. Social relationships 8. Sexual disturbance 9. Motive

Answer 24

1. 17 years old 2. Male. 3. White. 4. Mentally deficient 5. Come from unstable environments with lower socioeconomic groups. 6. Experience difficulty in relationships 7. Usually sexually perverted. Fire serves as sexual gratification 8. Revenge

Question 25

1. What is the fire triangle

Answer 25

1. The three components that make up a fire. Heat , fuel , and oxygen.

Question 26

1. Who are the most serious international threat to the United States

Answer 26

1. The Sunni Islamic extremists.

Question 27

1. What is the easiest bomb to construct. 2. What is it made from. 3. What are bombs often made from

Answer 27

1. The pipe bomb. 2. Packed with screws and nails. 3. Common household items regularly found under the sink or in a garage

Question 28

1. When searching for a bomb. What should investigators look for 2. How are most bomb threats relayed

Answer 28

1. Anything that looks unusual | 2. Though telephone calls to the target

Question 29

1. Why do bombers communicate a bomb threat. 2 reasons

Answer 29

1. The caller wants to create an atmosphere or anxiety and panic Or. 2. The caller has knowledge of the bomb and wants to minimize personal injury or property demage

Question 30

1. What provides the best information about a bomb. 30

Answer 30

1. The bomb threat caller

Question 31

1. If a bomb is found. What should be placed in top of it. 2. What should not be 3. What is a safe clear zone from a bomb 4. What should be done in the room of the bomb

Answer 31

1. Mattresses and sandbags. 2. Never metal. 3. 300 feet 4. Open all doors and windows then evacuate

Question 32

1. What is the defination of terrorism 2. How does the FEDERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS AUTHORIZATION ACT DEFINE TERRORISM 3. Regardless of the defination terrorism is what 2

Answer 32

1. There is no single defination 1. Premeditated. 2. Politically motivated 3. Violent 4. Committed against noncombatant targets 1. Politically and emotionally charged

Question 33

1. What is the only general characteristic of terrorism

Answer 33

1. Violence

Question 34

1. Domestic terrorism

Answer 34

1. The unlawful use or threatened use of force by a group of individual , based and operating entirely within the United States without foreign direction, committed against persons , property to intimidate or coerce a government , the civilians , or any segment thereof, in furtherance of social political objectives

Question 35

1. International terrorism.

Answer 35

1. Violent acts or acts that are s danger to human life they are a violation of the criminal law of the United States or any or other state or that would be a criminal violation of committed within the jurisdiction of the US.