What Is the Most Effective Way to Assess Reliability of a Criminal

question 20

Multiple Choice

What is the most effective way to assess reliability of a criminal informant's information?

• A) the number of convictions his/her information has produced
• B) the number of arrests his/her information has produced
• C) the accuracy of the past information provided by the informant
• D) a positive assessment from the officer who obtained the information

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Definitions:

External Attribution

The process of ascribing the cause of one's own or another's behavior to external factors or the environment.

Internal Attribution

The process of attributing the cause of one's behavior to personal factors, such as character or effort, rather than to external circumstances.

Confirmation Bias

The tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses.

Casual Social Interactions

Interactions that are informal and not structured, occurring spontaneously between individuals in social settings.