Which of the following is not one of the recommendations for dealing with the mentally
ill?
a. using less lethal weapons
b. deploying specialized police officers
c. deploying specialized nonpolice responders
d. all of the above
This police department has the Horizons Family Counseling project operating out of the
police department:
a. Boston.
b. Livermore.
c. Chicago.
d. Los Angeles.
According to a Rand research report, all of the following are risk factors of adolescent
-violence except:
a. exhibiting early deviant behavior.
b. poor grades.
c. frequent moves during elementary school.
d. All are characteristics of adolescent violence.
Relieving the courts of matters not requiring the formalities of judicial intervention is
an example of:
a. the Deferred Prosecution/First Offenders Unit.
b. Community Dispute Resolution Centers.
c. Volunteers in Parole.
d. positive interaction.
According to the text, police officers are most likely to investigate:
a. burglary.
b. noise complaints.
c. animal complaints.
d. white collar crime.
A restorative justice model:
a. views offenders as victims of society.
b. insists that individuals are accountable to the victim and the victim’s community.
c. is primarily concerned with ensuring a fair system.
d. none of the above
According to the text, many gang members continue to engage in gang activity while:
a. on trial.
b. incarcerated.
c. on vacation.
d. all of the above
According to the text this type of violence prevention benefits from partnerships and
-problem solving efforts.
a. workplace violence
b. gang suppression
c. youth violence
d. street gangs
According to the text, gangs are identified by all of the below except:
a. name.
b. turf concerns.
c. symbols, colors, or special dress.
d. age.
Kinesics is useful in:
a. conveying professionalism nonverbally.
b. interpreting body language.
c. ‘softening” official language.
d. all of the above
According to the text, concerns about using volunteers in police departments include:
a. possible access to confidential material.
b. older people’s well-known disrespect for the law.
c. their tendency to try to take over enforcement duties.
d. all of the above
The requirement that police officers advise criminal suspects of their rights before
custodial interrogation is required by the decision of which Supreme Court case?
a. Mapp v. Ohio
b. Miranda v. Arizona
c. Terry v. Ohio
d. Gideon v. Wainwright
Problem-solving policing requires police to:
a. group incidents.
b. identify underlying causes
c. both a and b
d. neither a nor b of problems.
Race-based enforcement:
a. is discriminatory and illegal.
b. is legal and justifiable.
c. no longer occurs in the United States.
d. is forensically viable.
The Kops n” Kids program, endorsed by the International Association of Chiefs of
Police (IACP), brings together children and officers to:
a. counteract negative perceptions of police.
b. have lunch.
c. participate in ride-along programs.
d. have fun rather than to deliver antidrug or anticrime speeches.
Tactical civility as taught by the Verbal Judo Institute stressed that officers cannot
afford to show:
a. politeness.
b. professionalism.
c. tactical verbal skills.
d. a display of anger.
During the reform era the police relationship with the community they served was:
a. more reactive.
b. exemplified by stronger communication with the public.
c. professionally remote.
d. an equal partnership.
All of these are essential elements of community policing except:
a. partnerships.
b. problem solving.
c. organizational change.
d. All are elements of community policing.
Traditional policing expected community members to remain in the background. That
meant most citizen”police interactions were:
a. negligible contacts.
b. negative contacts.
c. negotiated contacts.
d. necessary contacts.
According to the text, the coverage of terrorism inspiring more terrorism is called the:
a. realistic coverage effect.
b. contagion effect.
c. jihadi effect.
d. visibility effect.
According to the text, neighborhood theories and street theories are examples of:
a. hot-spot theories.
b. theories of differential association
c. routine activities theory.
d. classical school theories.
The training of police and private security officers to identify terrorists to help them
identify potential terrorist targets is conducted and funded under:
a. the Critical Incident Project.
b. the Terrorism Identification Project.
c. the Save Our Streets Project.
d. the Safe Cities Project.
When a weaker group attacks a stronger group, this is referred to as:
a. bisymmetric warfare.
b. lateral warfare.
c. symmetric warfare.
d. asymmetric warfare.
The most common activities of Neighborhood Watch programs are:
a. Operation Identification programs and home security surveys.
b. firearm training seminars and self-defense demonstrations.
c. roadside litter cleanup and graffiti removal.
d. school crosswalk monitoring and latchkey kid programs.
Community courts are _________________ courts that offer an immediate visible
response to quality-of-life offences.
a. restorative-focused
b. neighborhood-focused
c. offense-focused
d. proactivly focused
Criminologist Larry Sherman proposed a new model of law enforcement called:
a. action policing.
b. community-based policing.
c. evidence-based policing.
d. none of the above
One of the best models for police”researcher alliance is an action research approach.
This approach was first used by Lewin in what decade?
a. 1970s
b. 1960s
c. 1950s
d. 1940s
All of the following are a downside of police discretion except:
a. The decisions not to invoke the criminal process are seldom subject to review.
b. It determines the outer limit of law enforcement.
c. The police have the power to decide whom they will arrest.
d. The officers are subject to immediate supervisory review.
Some departments discourage individual officers from talking to reporters and instead
-designate a ________________ to disseminate all information to the media.
The Spouse Assault Replication Program, a study cosponsored by the National Institute
of Justice (NIJ) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, analyzed more
than 4,000 incidents, from six jurisdictions, in which males had assaulted their female
intimate partners. What were the results?
a. Arresting batterers infrequently reduced subsequent aggression against female
intimate partners, although not all comparisons met the statistical significance level.
b. Arresting batterers infrequently reduced subsequent aggression against female
intimate partners, with all comparisons meeting the statistical significance level.
c. Arresting batterers was consistently related to reduced subsequent aggression against
female intimate partners, although not all comparisons met the statistical significance
level.
d. Arresting batterers was consistently related to reduced subsequent aggression against
female intimate partners, with all comparisons meeting the statistical significance level.
One police departments’ Neighborhood-Oriented Police (NOP) program was perceived
as more social work than police work and was referred to as:
a. neighbors on patrol.
b. next door patrol.
c. community on patrol.
d. nobody on patrol.
The ________________ program supports federal, state and local law enforcement
efforts to combat criminal activity, including terrorism.
a. NIMS
b. RISS
c. NCISP
d. SIMS
Included among the most common traditional crime prevention programs used are:
a. lobbying for longer prison sentences and tougher laws.
b. citizen training in use of firearms and self-defense.
c. neighborhood watch and property marking projects.
d. all of the above
Homeboy Industries’ main focus is to:
a. eliminate gang activity.
b. help at-risk youths prepare for their future, not their funeral.
c. provide after-school programs for troubled youth.
d. provide GED education for youths who drop out of school.
Process evaluation determines if the response was implemented as planned.
Because of its importance, training should be made the spearhead of change in getting
-officers to accept the trANSition to community policing.
A coordinated approach known as _______________ works to design interjurisdictional
-partnerships to reduce victimization of older persons.
Skolnick’s classic description, “A Sketch of the Policeman’s Working Personality””
(1966), included such descriptors as social isolation, solidarity, and authority. Describe
what -characteristics were identified in his definition.
Answer:
Answer varies.
The Citywide Crime Prevention Program of Seattle focused on residential burglary.
In apartment complexes, closed drug markets pose a greater threat than open drug
markets.
List and discuss the numerous impediments to implementing community policing,
including ways a department might overcome such challenges.
Answer:
Answer varies.
CompStat is viewed by all law enforcement agencies as effective and ethical.
A citizen coalition called ________________ helps instruct and mobilize communities
to partner with law enforcement to combat drug problems.
Decentralization is an operating principle that discourages flattening of the
organization.
When police use certain racial characteristics, such as skin color, as indicators of
criminal activity, the practice is commonly referred to as _________________
According to the text, most terrorist acts result from dissatisfaction with a
________________, political, or social system or policy and frustration resulting from
an inability to change it through acceptable, nonviolent means.
Discuss the differences between the traditional retributive approach to justice and
restorative justice.
Answer:
Answer varies.
Research has found that most executives and managers in the corporate sector have
given considerable thought to the impact of partner abuse on the health and safety of
their -employees.
The September 11th attacks undoubtedly shifted the priorities of policing.
Four dimensions of _____________ are shared priorities, competency, dependability,
and respect.
Mimetic isomorphism occurs when an organization copies or imitates another
organization.
In the context of law enforcement a PSA is a __________________.