III. Practice and experience. Give adjectives that can characterize a good investigator

Give adjectives that can characterize a good investigator. Add the list from the text above.

Insert one of the following words into the text in an appropriate form.

Tell what proficiency of an investigator includes.

Fill in the table with the words from the text

C) professional qualities of an investigator.

Find in the text the information on

II. DEVELOPMENT

a) types of evidence at the scene of a crime;

b) methods of identification;

Fingerprinting	DNA profiling

4. Complete the following sentences according to the information from the text:

1. To obtain a position of an investigator one has to pass an examination on such legal subjects as...

2. Investigator’s job includes...

3. At a scene of a crime some types of physical evidence may be recovered such as...

4. Fingerprinting is a method of...(-ing form).

5. Modern detectives spend most of their time on…(-ing form).

5. Explain why recovering and collecting physical evidence is important in the investigation of a crime?

What Makes an Investigator?

instinct, competent, search, intelligence, field-criminalist, witnesses, fingerprints, evidence

Investigation means a …. That's why the duty of an investiga­tor is to search for the truth, for the offender, for … who help to reconstruct the event and will present evidence of it in court.

The duties of the investigator together with the … are to find, to collect and to protect evidence, such as …, footprints, and other traces of the criminal act.

Every good investigator should be intelligent, …, patient, tactful, composed, and persistent, but he should be firm if it is necessary. He must also possess special investiga­tive aptitudes and professional …. The quick and accurate solution of crime depends largely on the personal ef­forts. It also depends on his education, his … and his decision-making judgements.

7. Translate into English:

Для розслідування справи слідчі та детективи використовують різні методи і засоби. Для розкриття злочину необхідно враховувати багато аспектів. Важливим завданням є збір свідчень та доказів і пошук потенційного підозрюваного. В процесі допиту свідків слідчий може отримати важливу інформацію щодо винності особи, присутності підозрюваного на місці злочина. Цей факт може бути підтверджений чи навпаки завдяки перевірці фізичних доказів. Існують спеціальні методи встановлення ідентичності особи: аналіз відбитків пальців та ДНК. Шляхом порівняння відбитків пальців на місці злочину та відбитків підозрюваного можна встановити абсолютний доказ присутності або ідентичності особи.

1. To obtain testimonial evidence an investigator has to deal with different types of people. Here are some psychological types of witnesses indicated in scientific literature: 1)honest and cooperative witness; 2) silent, know-nothing, or uninterested witness; 3) hostile and deceitful witness; 4) timid or bashful witness; 5) talkative or boastful witness; 6) “under the influence” witness. [Weston and Wells, Criminal Investigation, 1985]

Try to characterize these types of witnesses. Explain why it is difficult/ easy/ necessary/ important to interrogate each type of witnesses even not interested.

2. Situation: you are at the scene of a crime. Explain the steps you’d take to collect evidence from a criminal case.

3. Investigator Ruse (хитрощі). React to the suspect’s words, he tries to hide the necessary information. Complete the dialogue:

- Please tell your story backward.

- I won’t do it. You ask me to do it because you want me to make a mistake.

- Mr. Stevenson, if you are innocent as you assert why not tell it? I just want to confirm your innocence. By the way what mistake do you mean?

-What would you say, we have found…

4. Give instructions to a young specialist how he should carry out an interrogation and what he shouldn’t do to get necessary information using the following key-expressions:

· to collect information (suspect: name, age, criminal history)

· to find out (a suspect, at a scene of a crime)

· to be a good listener

· to control emotions

· to hurry

· to show sympathy

· to blame society

· to be friendly

· to offer cigarettes

· to observe physical reaction

· to let the suspect tell…without interruption

· to confront with physical evidence

· to lie (physical evidence has been found…)

· to use unexpected questions

· to tell that anybody could do the same in the similar situation

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