Canadian Criminal Justice System Practice Exam
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This course offers a comprehensive overview of the Canadian criminal justice system, examining its history, structure, and key components. Students will explore the roles and responsibilities of police, courts, and correctional institutions, while analyzing how laws are created, interpreted, and enforced in Canada. The course considers issues such as the rights of the accused, sentencing practices, and the challenges faced by marginalized groups within the system. Through case studies and current events, students will critically assess the effectiveness and fairness of the Canadian criminal justice process and consider ongoing debates in criminal justice policy and reform.
Recommended Textbook Criminology A Candian Perspective 8th Edition by Rick Linden
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Chapter 1: Crime, Criminals, and Criminology
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Q1) Most Canadians learn about crime through the media.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Which of the following pieces of legislation sets out the majority of criminal offences for Canada?
A)the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
B)the Canadian Constitution
C)the Youth Criminal Justice Act
D)the Criminal Code of Canada
Answer: D
Q3) Which of the following types of crime are overrepresented in media coverage compared to their incidence in real life?
A)white-collar crime
B)violent crime
C)political crime
D)property crime
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: The Social Context of Dispute Settlement and the Rise of Law
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Q1) The restorative justice approach helps empower the victims of crime in any community by increasing their participation in the dispute resolution process.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Which of the following violates a principle of restorative justice?
A)helping communities reintegrate victims and offenders
B)restoring social relationships
C)having judicial figures make key decisions
D)reconciling offenders with those they have harmed
Answer: C
Q3) "A state of social bonding or interdependency that rests on similarity of beliefs and values,shared activities,and ties of kinship and cooperation among members of a community." Which of the following concepts does this definition apply to?
A)mutual dependence
B)mode of production
C)collective solidarity
D)role diffusion
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Criminal Law
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a penalty handed out to someone found NCRMD by a court of law?
A)conditional discharge
B)custody in a psychiatric facility
C)imprisonment in a correctional facility
D)absolute discharge
Answer: C
Q2) The Charter of Rights ensures that police are never allowed to intervene before a particular crime is committed.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) A crime consists of a prohibition against certain conduct and a penalty.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) The two main sources of criminal law are legislation and judicial decisions.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Counting Crime
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Q1) Which of the following is the most commonly used source of data for measuring crime in Canada?
A)police-reported data
B)correctional data
C)court data
D)census data
Q2) Which of the following best represents the difference between the UCR1 and UCR2 systems?
A)UCR1 collects summary data for separate criminal offences while UCR2 uses a weighting system to indicate more serious offences.
B)UCR1 collects summary data for separate criminal offences while UCR2 collects more detailed information on each incident,the victims,and the accused persons.
C)UCR1 collects data on federal criminal offences while UCR2 collects data on both federal and provincial criminal offences.
D)UCR1 follows the seriousness rule while the UCR2 survey does not.
Q3) Compare and contrast "administrative records" and "statistics" within the context of the criminal justice system.Note the respective roles that each play within the criminal justice system.
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Chapter 5: Correlates of Criminal Behaviour
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Q1) The textbook cites Hagen (1992)who says the "relationship between class and crime is class and crime specific." What does Hagen mean by this? Provide some specific examples to substantiate your answer.
Q2) Which of the following regions of Canada has the highest incarceration rate of Aboriginal peoples?
A)the Northwest Territories
B)the prairies
C)Central Canada
D)Atlantic Canada
Q3) This chapter explores how certain variables correlate with crime.Yet,it emphasizes that just because a variable is associated with crime,this does not mean it causes crime.Explain the difference between a correlate of crime and a cause of crime.Cite one example from the chapter for each.
Q4) A basic explanation for the theory of maturational reform is that adolescence is a period of transition marked by ambiguity and nonconformity,which contributes to more criminal and delinquent behaviour
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Feminism and Criminology
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Q1) Which of the following did Lombroso and Ferrero contend with their atavistic theory of female criminality?
A)Women were more advanced on the evolutionary continuum than men and showed more signs of being degenerate.
B)Women were not as advanced on the evolutionary continuum as men and showed more signs of being degenerate.
C)Women were more advanced on the evolutionary continuum than men and showed fewer signs of being degenerate.
D)Women were not as advanced on the evolutionary continuum as men and showed fewer signs of being degenerate.
Q2) What is the Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS)? How has the CTS changed our understanding of gendered violence? Note some of the major limitations of the CTS.
Q3) Feminist criminologists suggest that female crime is most directly associated with which of the following?
A)the feminization of poverty
B)women's emancipation
C)genetically based sex differences
D)differential sex role socialization
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Chapter 7: Victimology, Victim Services, and Victim Rights in Canada
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Q1) Rape crisis centres were some of the first services established for victims of crimes.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In 1967,Alberta became the first province to provide compensation for victims of crime in Canada.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to the textbook,in what area do Canadian provinces do a good job in providing services to victims of crime?
A)providing shelter or transitional housing
B)health care services
C)emotional and psychological services
D)providing restitution
Q4) According to the textbook,a major reason for the loss of confidence in the police in Canada is the lack of protocols detailing how an officer responding to a 911 call should respond with regards to victims of crime.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Early Theories of Criminology
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Q1) The Neoclassical school was important because it introduced the idea that punishment should take into consideration the circumstances of individual offenders.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following most influenced the Classical School of crime?
A)religion
B)feudalism
C)the Enlightenment
D)Classical Greek philosophy
Q3) Which of the following concepts best represents the intentions of a judge handing down a sentence of life imprisonment in order to send a message to others who might commit the same crime?
A)rehabilitation
B)deterrence
C)vengeance
Q4) Describe the basic theories of the Lombroso and the Positive School of criminology. Discuss the historical context for these theories of crime and how emergent anthropological theories of the time influenced them.
Q5) What are some of the critiques and limitations of the Classical School of crime?
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Chapter 9: Psychological Perspectives on Criminality
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Q1) Which of the following best represents the psycho-analytical theory of criminal behaviour?
A)Crime results when ego,superego,and id are completely missing from an individual.
B)Crime results when the ego and superego are unable to control the primitive,aggressive,and antisocial instincts of the id.
C)Crime results when the ego can no longer control the superego
D)Crime results when the id can no longer control the ego and superego.
Q2) Which of the following dimensions of personality described by Eysenck was found to be associated with psychopathy?
A)psychoticism
B)introversion
C)neuroticism
D)extraversion
Q3) Substance use disorder is one of the most common mental health disorders to inmates in Canadian prisons.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe and critically analyze Eysenck's theory of crime and personality.
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Chapter 10: Strain Theories
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Q1) According to Cloward and Ohlin,which of the following adaptations has the fewest barriers to entry for working-class youths?
A)the passivist subculture
B)the criminal subculture
C)the retreatist subculture
D)the conflict subculture
Q2) According to Bernard,strain or anomie are properties of social structures,not of individuals.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Braithwaite argues that crime is most likely when exposure to illegitimate opportunities is high and exposure to legitimate opportunities is low.Based on this argument,which of the following initiatives would help to reduce crime in a low-income neighbourhood?
A)job creation for young people
B)an increase in community beautification projects
C)an increase in the number of police officers
D)amalgamating schools
Q4) Describe Messner and Rosenfeld's theory of institutional anomie.
Q5) Explain how strain theory converges with other theories of crime.
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Chapter 11: Conflict Theories
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Q1) Vold's group conflict theory is interested in the process of law creation as it relates to the activities of antagonistic interest groups in the broader community.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Marxist criminologists view conflict as rooted in the structure of capitalist society (capitalist economic relations).
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is Vold's group conflict theory unable to explain?
A)intragroup crime
B)ideologically motivated crimes
C)politically motivated crimes
D)intergroup crime
Q4) Which of the following concepts best explains honour killings and their condemnation in Canada?
A)cultural conflict
B)relative autonomy
C)left realism
D)structural Marxism
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Chapter 12: Contemporary Critical Criminology
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Q1) Which of the following refers to statistical calculations of risk across time and groups?
A)risk calculus
B)risk expectancies
C)universal risk assessment
D)actuarial risks
Q2) Which of the following best illustrates a state of exception as described by Agamben?
A)the Harper era in federal politics
B)Canada during the 1950s
C)the war of 1812
D)the FLQ Crisis in Quebec
Q3) Which of the following best represents what cultural criminologists mean by the notion of the "soft city"?
A)rationally planned urban space
B)street level possibilities and creativity that can thwart rationally planned urban space
C)the freedom to go and do as we please
D)the design of defensive urban space
Q4) Explain the basic tenets of contemporary critical criminology.
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Chapter 13: Interactionist Theories
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Q1) Which of the following is one of the reasons that labelling is not fair?
A)Everyone engaged in criminal activity,no matter how serious the crime,has the deviant label applied to them.
B)Some have not involved in deviant behaviour,but are labelled as such.
C)The label lasts forever.
D)It is only applied to those engaged in "street-level" crime.
Q2) What is the term used to denote a rationalization whereby offenders stress the cunning and power they bring to bear against people who are otherwise more powerful and uncontrollable?
A)moral rhetoric
B)instrumental rhetoric
C)symbolic power relations rhetoric
D)secondary deviance rhetoric
Q3) A sense of continuity,a perception of increasing opportunities,and an increased sophistication and possibly recognition by peers are all characteristics of which of the following?
A)deviant career
B)symbolic interactionism
C)secondary deviation
D)drift
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Chapter 14: Social Control Theory
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Q1) According to research,which of these family variables is strongly associated with delinquency?
A)parental supervision
B)parental role modelling
C)harsh discipline
D)disapproval of unwanted behaviour
Q2) Which of the following is NOT one of the arguments that Nye made in explaining the onset of delinquency?
A)Delinquency is not motivated by the resulting gains,but prevented by the relative costs of alternative benefits.
B)Weak controls free the person to commit delinquent acts by lowering their cost relative to available alternatives.
C)People are motivated to achieve goals quickly but are prevented from doing so by laws and customs.
D)People are intrinsically conformist,but social controls implemented by the state are still necessary.
Q3) Describe and analyze Gottfredson and Hirschi's A General Theory of Crime.What is the main factor underlying criminality according to this theory?
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Chapter 15: Deterrence, Routine Activity, and Rational
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Q1) Which of the following strategies involves warning offenders who are heavily involved in criminal activity that their actions are being monitored and that future violations of the law will be dealt with immediately?
A)hot spots policing
B)broken windows policing
C)individualized deterrence
D)mandatory minimum sentencing
Q2) Improving the parenting skills of high-risk parents,providing job training and employment for young people who are cut off from the labour market,and intensive pre-school for children who live in poverty are all examples of what kind of crime prevention strategy?
A)situational crime prevention
B)crime prevention through social development
C)provocation reduction crime prevention
D)deterrence-based crime prevention
Q3) A large body of research supports the deterrent effect of increasing the certainty of offenders being arrested.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Organized Crime
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Q1) Which of the following theories forms the basis for ethnic succession theory?
A)deterrence
B)differential association
C)social control
D)strain
Q2) What name was originally applied to a Chinese organized crime network that was made up of former soldiers from mainland China and now constitutes one of Canada's most dominant criminal conspiracies?
A)the Kung Lok Triad
B)Chinese tongs
C)the Lords of Chinatown
D)the Big Circle Boys
Q3) Most organized crime groups are not designed to last longer than their current leadership.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain how public policies and geopolitical factors have made Canada a haven for smuggling.
Q5) Apply ethnic succession theory to better understand the history of organized crime in Canada.
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Chapter 17: Corporate and White-Collar Crime
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Q1) The Catholic Church has aggressively pursued allegations of sexual misconduct by its priests.
A)True
B)False
Q2) "The conscious decisions of a number of individuals and organizations resulted in the Westray tragedy." Support this statement by providing some of the details of how the tragedy came about.
Q3) What is the name applied to white-collar crimes committed with the support and encouragement of a formal organization and intended at least in part to advance the goals of that organization?
A)occupational crime
B)white-collar crime
C)organizational crime
D)institutional crime
Q4) What type of fraud was perpetrated by Bernie Madoff and Earl Jones?
A)insider trading
B)selling a stock short
C)Ponzi schemes
D)"pump and dump"
Q5) Why is white-collar crime positively related to class position?
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Chapter 18: Cybercrime and Cyberdeviance
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Q1) Ripping is the use of specially designed software to download original material from a protected media source (e.g. ,online movie)to a hard disk,for the purposes of resale or redistribution.
A)True
B)False
Q2) To better understand online victimization,the textbook argues that research on cyberbullying and cyber-victimology must include an assessment of risk.Which of the following best represents the focus of such a risk assessment?
A)Computers might be classified according to a continuum of risk tolerance,ranging from infrequent use to frequent use.
B)Victims might be classified according to a continuum of risk tolerance,ranging from infrequent users to frequent users whose communications occur in or near real-time.
C)Offenders might be classified according to a continuum of risk tolerance,ranging from infrequent use to frequent use of the Internet.
D)Websites might be classified according to a continuum of risk tolerance,ranging from those visited infrequently to those visited frequently.
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