Criminal Justice Case Study
You are the managing security officer at the retail store called Galmart and have just been notified by employee Cartman that another employee Bart has been under-ringing merchandise (referred to as “fraudulent disbursements in the next chapter). Under-ringing occurs when the cashier rings an item at less than its listed price, collects the full amount and keeps the extra money. To cover the fraudulent act, the cashier fails to provide a receipt or blocks the cash register display window from the customer. In this instance, Bart is voiding the purchase entirely and not returning the money to the customer, but instead stealing the cash from the register.
- A) Who are you going to “interview” and why?
- B) Who are you going to “interrogate” and why?
- C) What sort of information would you want your report to contain?
- D) What other sort of evidence would you want to collect?
Assignment 2
1) Identify the five qualities of effective and reliable investigations (please do not just list them).
2) What is an “accident” as discussed in the book and why are they important to investigate?
3) Explain the difference between an “interview” and an “interrogation”.
4) Why is it important to take notes during an interview or interrogation?
5) Explain a “deposition”.
