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LOCK UP JAILS – is a security facility, common to
police stations, used for temporary confinement of
an individual held for investigation.

LOGIC BOMB – a computer program that uses
illegitimate instructions or misuses legitimate
instructions to damage data structures; operates
at a specific time, periodically, or according to
other instructions.

LOGICAL APPROACH – an interrogation technique
in which the interrogator bases his or her appeals
to the suspect on common sense and sound
reasoning; works better on men with criminal
records, educated persons, and mature adults.

LOGOMACY — a statement that we would have no
crime if we have no criminal law and that we can
eliminate crimes by merely abolishing criminal law.

LOOK OUTS – accomplices of a robber who watch for
police and may provide armed backup for the
offender.

LOOSE SURVEILLANCE – type of surveillance
applied frequently or infrequently where the period
of observation varied on each occasion; the subject
is not kept under constant observation; this
method is used when the information sought can
be obtained from a particular facet of the subject's
activities, to spot check a subject, or as a long-
term method of compiling information on a subject.

LOST – in surveillance, the surveillant does not know
the whereabouts of his subject or the subject has
eluded the surveillance.

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