Which of the following is a mechanism used to control the police?
a. internal affairs investigators
b. civilian review boards
c. standards and accreditation
d. civil liability lawsuits
According to your text, research conducted on large police departments found that a key
factor in solving crimes was
a. identification of the perpetrator by the victim or witnesses
b. police arriving at the scene of the crime in less than a minute
c. the intelligence of the police officers
d. the size of the police force
David has worked for his municipal police department for 10 years. He has seen his fair
share of homicide and rape victims. He remembers a time when he use to be excited to
hear the next call for service. Currently, he dreads to hear the radio calls for assistance.
David tries to remember he is keeping his community safe by the job he preforms. He
also remembers he has a family of his own he wants to keep safe as well.
David is suffering from stress due to the those involved in the criminal justice system,
which he is forced to arrest and help prosecute on a day to day basis. Which type of
stress is David suffering from?
a. external
b. organizational
c. personal
d. operational
Which of the following is not a principle set forth by Warden Dennis Luther for his staff
members?
a. Inmates are sent to prison as punishment and not for punishment.
b. Inmates are entitled to a safe and humane environment while in prison.
c. Inmates should be punished harshly.
d. You must believe in man’s capacity to change his behavior.
With passage of two laws in 1970the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations
Act (RICO) and the Continuing Criminal Enterprise Act (CCE)Congress resurrected
______ , which is the government seizure of property.
a. restitution
b. forfeiture
c. fines
d. repayment
Probation works best when the judge and the supervising officer have close contact.
a. True
b. False
__________is the state with the most defendants on death row.
a. New York
b. Washington
c. California
d. Florida
The goals of controlling crime and protecting the rights of individuals are
a. impossible to achieve
b. easy to achieve
c. difficult to achieve
d. not necessary to achieve
The historical roots of probation can be traced to the
a. procedures of community supervision in France
b. procedures for reprieves and pardons of early English courts
c. procedures for forgiveness of the Spanish courts
d. procedures of shock probation in Russian courts
Under the doctrine of _____ , which held the king to be the father of the realm, the
chancery courts exercised protective jurisdiction over all children, particularly those
involved in questions of dependency, neglect, and property.
a. stubborn child law
b. parens patriae
c. Gault
d. In re Winship
Values and norms do not affect the functioning of a courtroom.
a. True
b. False
Which actor/entity typically determines discretionary release of state prisoners?
a. state prison release commissioner
b. parole board
c. state supreme court
d. prison warden
The Declaration of Principles concerning corrections addressed the issue of female
prisoners.
a. True
b. False
Defendants must state they made their pleas voluntarily in order for them to be accepted
by a judge.
a. True
b. False
What United States Supreme Court case involved a ruling that police are not supposed
to use deadly force in apprehending unarmed fleeing felons?
a. Whren v. U.S. (1996)
b. Maryland v. Wilson (1997)
c. Tennessee v. Garner (1985)
d. Graham v. Connor (1989)
The double jeopardy clause is found in the
a. Third Amendment
b. Fourth Amendment
c. Fifth Amendment
d. Sixth Amendment
Which of the following administer prisons, jails, and other corrections facilities and
programs?
a. federal government
b. state governments
c. city governments
d. all of the above
Procedural due process requires that the constitutional rights of criminal defendants
must be respected.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following is a vice offense?
a. assault
b. traffic violations
c. arson
d. prostitution
Problem-oriented policing tries to find the underlying causes of crime.
a. True
b. False
Ethan was arrested for public drunkeness and lewd and lascivious behavior after
attending his close friend’s bachelor party. This is his first encounter with the criminal
justice system. He works as a project manager with a local construction company. Ethan
has been involved with his girlfriend for three years. His attorney has reached an
agreement with the prosecutor to reduce his sentence to probation.
Ethan’s attorney and the prosecutor were able to work out an agreement on the
expectation of a guilty plea. This agreement is also known as a ______.
a. system
b. task
c. plea bargain
d. filtering system
Which of the following are values that must be respected in a democracy by police,
prosecutors, judges, and correctional officials?
a. rule of law
b. civil liberties
c. Justice
d. All of these
According to recent statistics, the crime the highest percentage of Americans fear or
worry over is now:
a. getting mugged
b. getting murdered
c. being the victim of identity theft
d. being a victim of terrorism
A person could be punished for killing a pigeon if a state legislature passed a law
against killing pigeons on the day after the pigeon was killed.
a. True
b. False
The administration of justice in a democracy also differs from that in an authoritarian
state in the nature and extent of the protections provided for an accused person while
guilt is determined and punishment imposed.
a. True
b. False
Women now comprise nearly one-quarter of the entire United States prison population.
a. True
b. False
The acronym CODIS stands for:
a. Collinear Debate in Serology
b. Creativity in Other Devices in Seriousness
c. Convictions of Deviants in Sentencing
d. Combined DNA Index System
Police rarely use deception when interrogating a suspect.
a. True
b. False
Prisoners can receive federal funding for post-secondary education.
a. True
b. False
Crimes committed in the context of a legal business or profession are called
a. political crime
b. victimless crime
c. occupational crime
d. organized crime
Weapons such as pepper spray and air-fired beanbags or nets that intend to incapacitate
a suspect without inflicting serious injuries are known as ________weapons.
a. lethal
b. less-lethal
c. non-lethal
d. brutality
__________is punishment designed to be an example for the public.
The argument that criminals are born criminal was purported by_________ .
Generally, police patrol duties in a democracy are organized to be ___________.
The United States Supreme Court found that the death penalty was unconstitutional in
_______ v. __________.
Often described as the _____, these norms and values develop within the prison social
system and help to define the inmate’s image of the model prisoner.
_____ is the subjecting of a person to prosecution more than once in the same
jurisdiction for the same offense; prohibited by the Fifth Amendment.
More than ____________ percent of offenders will return to prison, either because of a
new crime or a parole violation.
A _______ is a community correctional center where an offender reports each day to
comply with elements of a sentence.
Repayment by an offender to a victim is called ____________.
Why are victimless crimes a problem for police corruption?
_____is an investigative tool for police, but it can also be used to prevent and correct
grave errors by exonerating wrongly convicted people.
The _____ measures crime using victim interviews.
The common law system originated in _________.
____________ is used to determine an individual’s genetic fingerprint.
_____ is the unequal treatment of members of one demographic group by the criminal
justice system, compared with treatment accorded members of other groups.
Issued each year by the FBI, the ______are a statistical summary of crimes reported to
the police.