Because of the budget deficit, the US government is looking for ways to cut costs. They
have announced a plan to dissemble all state supreme courts or courts of last resort and
have all cases appealed from state appellate courts go directly to the US Supreme Court.
What does this decision mean for those people that are on either side of the gun control
debate?
a. Only one side will be able to have their day in court.
b. The court will be relieved of a backlog of criminal cases.
c. The majority opinion will become the landmark decision.
d. The state supreme court judges will be employed through the federal system.
Most offenders possess a gun, which explains why many anticrime advocates are
against gun ownership.
a.True
b.False
A police officer in plainclothes is eating lunch in a restaurant on his day off. He is not
noticed by two patrol officers sitting at the counter having coffee. The uniformed patrol
officers get up and leave without paying or even leaving a tip. The owner of the coffee
shop is overheard just before the officers leave without paying, saying that he is grateful
the police presence remains strong in this rough part of town.
The plainclothes police officer decides not to say anything to the officers even though
they were wrong not to pay or tip. What is this an example of?
a. Double marginality
b. Meat eating
c. The so-called blue curtain
d. Full enforcement
A Trojan horse is a benign application that contains illicit codes that can damage system
operations.
a. True
b. False
Madalyn has just earned her degree in Information Systems. After graduation she
decides to go to the police academy. She believes that working for the police and
combining her knowledge of computers would be a great niche field.
When Madalyn is on patrol, she focuses on stopping motor vehicles and aggressively
arresting and detaining suspects that pose potential dangers to the community. This
concept is called:
a. proactive policing.
b. selective enforcement.
c. full enforcement.
d. hot spot policing.
Poor laws were developed in England at the end of the ____ century.
a. ninth
b. eleventh
c. fourteenth
d. sixteenth
Which standard of the insanity defense excuses a person whose mental disease makes it
impossible to control their conduct?
a. Durham rule
b. Products test
c. M”Naghten rule
d. Irresistible impulse test
At the ____________________, defendants are informed of the formal charges and
asked to enter a plea.
Which is not believed to be a reason that people fail on parole?
a. Parolees are released into the same environment that contributed to their deviant
behavior in the first place.
b. Personal deficits that led to an offender’s imprisonment are not addressed by
institutionalization.
c. The prison experience itself focuses more on punitive efforts than rehabilitation.
d. The parole system places unrealistic expectations on ex-offenders that they cannot
possibly meet.
More than half the contacts the average police officer makes with citizens are for
traffic-related matters.
a. True
b. False
Restitution ranks lower than probation on the punishment ladder.
a. True
b. False
In a consent search, individuals waive their constitutional rights.
a. True
b. False
Justification of the use of deadly force via the “fleeing felon” rule can be traced to:
a. English Common Law.
b. the landmark Tennessee v. Garner case.
c. the landmark Graham v. Conner case.
d. the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) guidelines.
In the most significant legal case concerning medical rights, the entire Alabama prison
system’s medical facilities were declared inadequate.
a. True
b. False
The availability of treatment and detention facilities is a resource issue that impacts
prosecutorial discretion.
a. True
b. False
The federal government has a three-tiered hierarchy of court jurisdiction, which
includes all of the following except the:
a. US court of appeals.
b. US district Court.
c. US special jurisdiction court.
d. US Supreme Court.
Over the past 20 years, the crime rate in the United States has been steadily increasing.
a.True
b.False
Which of the following is not a source of criminal law?
a. Common law
b. Biblical decree
c. Statutes
d. Case decisions
Crime scene investigation involves the use of complex instruments and chemical,
physical, and microscopic examining techniques.
a. True
b. False
What is the most typical emotion felt by most inmates during the early part of their
prison stay?
a. Anger
b. Depression
c. Hate
d. Defeat
Ben is an identity thief. His scam is really easy: he has a skimmer that he puts on the
credit card reader at the gas station. When unsuspecting patrons pay for their gasoline,
Ben gets a copy of their credit card number. Ben has just bought a Mercedes Benz
under one of his unsuspecting victim’s names. When the dealer does the credit check,
they find that there is an alert for potential stolen identity. Ben is arrested, charged,
convicted, and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Ben has a beef with one of the other inmates. He hasn”t paid his gambling debt and
keeps betting on other games. Ben is growing tired of dealing with the inmate but he is
trying not to lose his head. Why won”t he go ahead and get his money at any cost?
a. Ben is not a violent criminal.
b. Ben is a low man in the prison hierarchy.
c. There is an inmate social code.
d. The importation model.
To slow down prison litigation that clogs the federal courts, Congress passed the Prison
Litigation Reform Act in 1996, which requires prisoners to exhaust all internal
administrative grievance procedures before filing a civil rights case in federal court.
a. True
b. False
Under common law, there is generally a conclusive presumption of incapacity for a
child under the age of:
a. 7
b. 11
c. 13
d. 15
Intermediate sanctions can be scaled in severity to correspond to the seriousness of the
crime.
a. True
b. False
Which is false regarding new-generation jails?
a. Unobserved inmates are essentially unsupervised.
b. Continuous observation of residents is permitted.
c. Direct supervision jails involve a cluster of cells surrounding a living area.
d. Indirect supervision jails are a type of new-generation jail.
There are currently more than 1.6 million inmates in the state and federal prison
systems.
a. True
b. False
For every 1000 serious crimes, about _____ adults are sent to prison.
a. 5
b.10
c. 20
d.30
The higher the percentage of black officers on the police force, the higher the arrest
rates for crimes such as assault.
a. True
b. False
The process of determining the appropriateness of jurors to sit on the jury is known as:
a. voir dire.
b. venire.
c. the jury array.
d. the process of rebuttal.
Traffic laws are examples of strict liability offenses.
a. True
b. False
A(n) __________ waiver is used when the offense has been automatically waived to the
adult court but the judge uses their discretion to decide whether the youth will benefit
from rehabilitation?
a. judicial
b. reverse
c. excluded offense
d. intake
In 1914, in Weeks v. United States, the court established the exclusionary rule.
a. True
b. False
Private police are subject to the same legal constraints as public police.
a. True
b. False
A halfway house is an example of a(n) ____________________.
________________prosecution policies require prosecutors to bring charges against
domestic abusers regardless of whether the victim participates.
Most promotions in policing have ____________________ requirements.
The right to be informed of the nature of the charges against you and the right to
confront any prosecution witnesses is guaranteed by the ____________________
Amendment.
_______ programs give the client an opportunity to avoid the stigma of a criminal
record and continue to work to support one’s family.
Places from which a significant portion of all police calls originate are referred to as
_______.
As the eighteenth century began, rising crime rates encouraged a new form of private
paid police called ____________________, who were able to profit both legally and
criminally from the lack of formal police departments.
Discuss the shifts in US juvenile justice philosophy that began in the 1960s.
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of private prisons.
The ____________________ was the practice of correctional official selling the labor
of inmates to private businesses.
Discuss fraud on Wall Street
Conflict criminologists focus their attention on the law violations of the
______________.
Discuss how the role of a police officer and the police subculture are of concern to the
public.
A sex offense by a repeat offender would be considered a crime at which level of the
criminal justice “wedding cake.”
Summarize the trial process.