QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, AND UPDATED STUDY
GUIDE 2026/2027 LATEST
Silver alert system - ✔✔✔ANSWER-65 or older vulnerable person
missing.
Captain or above from detective bureau makes decision
MISSING person - ✔✔✔ANSWER-
MISSING: mentally or physically impaired is
65 years or older senile or mentally disabled
suicidal
involuntary disappearance not
yet 18 yrs old
gone swimming
Defense Types. - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Justification, Infancy, 99%/Mental
DiseaseCDefect, Entrapment 51%
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,Infancy - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Defendant is not criminally liable due to their
age:
- less than 7: no criminal responsibility.
- 7-15: Juvenile Delinquency (13,14,15 certain felonies are juvenile
offenders)
- 16 or older: charged as adults.
Entrapment - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Occurs when a defendant is actively
induced, encouraged, or lured by a public servant to commit an illegal
act.
Elements of an offense - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Written law - defining the
offense
Act - constituting the external physical part of a crime committed by the
offender.
Mental element - the offender's state of mind toward the act.
Result - injury or potential for injury produced by the act
Causal Relationship - between the unlawful act, the result, and the
underlying mental element.
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,Deprive - ✔✔✔ANSWER-To withhold property from a person
permanently or long period of time that a major portion of its value is lost
Appropriate - ✔✔✔ANSWER-To exercise control over or dispose of
property
Access Device - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Any credit card number, account
number or personal I.D number used to obtain phone service.
Petit Larceny (M) - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Stealing property valued at $1000
or less and does not fall within grand larceny categories.
Access Device - ✔✔✔ANSWER-any credit card number, account
number or personal ID number used to obtain phone service
Jostling (M) - ✔✔✔ANSWER-in a public place, a person; places hand in
area of victims pocket or handbag or crowds victim while other has hands
in area of person bag.
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, Extortion - ✔✔✔ANSWER-is not a charge, the charge is grand larceny
obtain property by placing person in fear that he does not provide property
the actor will engage in certain conduct.
Amber Alert 1996 - ✔✔✔ANSWER-17 or less missing signs
of imminent danger
Attempt to commit a crime. - ✔✔✔ANSWER-A change of attempt to
commit a crime will reduce the charge by one class.
ex: Class A felony to Class B Felony.
Attempt - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Engages in conduct which tends to effect the
commission of such crime.
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