Test Questions for Criminal Justice Organizations:
Chapter 1
A. Structure
B. Purpose
C. Activity
D. All of the above
2. ________________ is a process of integrating, coordinating and utilizing group members
3. ________________ is the process of directing and mobilizing people and their ideas to
4. A ______-_______ organization is self-contained and unresponsive to their
5. A _______-________ organization takes into account input from their environment as
6. Due Process requirements constrain the effectiveness of police officers’ goal to control
7. Wilson (2000) states that public bureaucracies, like criminal justice agencies, must
A. Accountability
B. Efficiency
C. Fiscal Integrity
D. Equity
E. All of the above
8. _________ represent police and correctional personnel have fought hard over the years to
A. Recession
B. Terrorism
C. Communism
D. Immigration
11. This organization is responsible for solving crime while maintaining due process,
reducing community conflicts and providing a stable working environment for officers?
A. Law Enforcement
B. Courts
C. Corrections
D. None of the above
12. This organization penalizes offenders by requiring retribution and at the same time
pursuing justice, deterrence and humaneness?
A. Law Enforcement
B. Courts
C. Corrections
D. None of the above
13. Punishment, rehabilitation and maintaining order are the main of goals of what criminal
A. Law Enforcement
B. Courts
C. Corrections
D. None of the above
14. _______________ leadership is influenced by the values and culture of its organization
(Stojkovic and Farkas, 2003).
15. Managers establish a shared vision in order to motivate and inspire a group movement
16. An organization is responsible for planning, budgeting, setting short-term goals and
A. Leadership
B. Management
C. Both A and B
D. None of the above
19. What author(s) suggests “that leaders motivate by articulation of a vision that stresses
values of the audience being addressed…..involving people in deciding how to achieve
that vision….enlisting the enthusiastic support of their efforts at achieving that vision…
A. Weber (1947)
B. Clynch and Neubauer (1981)
C. Lipsky (1980)
D. Kotter (1990)
E. None of the above
20. History shows that law enforcement has based their policies and procedures on a
traditional form of policing and our now trying to implement what type of procedure?
A. COMPSTAT
B. Community Policing
C. POP (Problem Oriented Policing)
D. None of the above
21. Public __________ has led to tougher sentences, which in turn have caused prison and
22. Community treatment programs are an example of what type of system(s)?
A. Open-system
B. Closed-system
C. Both A and B
D. None of the above
23. Criminal justice organizations are rather complex because various perceptions are taken
24. Internal groups are a strong source of power that can constrain the purpose and
25. What major issue is omnipresent in criminal justice organizations in the 21st century that
has ignited a competition among agencies?
26. Organizations are rich in politics: bargaining, negotiating, and intimidation by their
members in order to attain resources, power, status and influence. True or False
27. A latent goal of an organization is _____________, which usually translates into
28. Socialization in criminal justice organizations involves common attitudes, common
29. Organizations are limited to performing within their boundaries (i.e. structure) that are
30. The constraints on organizational goals has one benefit based on: Wright’s (1981)
statement that, “goal conflict is in fact desirable and that unified criminal justice system