Criminal Justice Administration Practice Exam
Course Introduction
Criminal Justice Administration explores the principles, practices, and processes involved in the management and operation of criminal justice organizations, including law enforcement, courts, and corrections. The course examines organizational structure, decision-making, leadership, policy formulation, resource management, and the challenges faced by administrators in ensuring justice, fairness, and ethical standards. Students will analyze real-world scenarios, study current trends, and evaluate strategies for effective administration within the criminal justice system.
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Ethical Dilemmas and Decisions in Criminal Justice 7th Edition by Joycelyn M. Pollock
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Chapter 1: Morality, ethics, and Human Behavior
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Q1) The term ______________ refers to the power to make a decision or choice.
Answer: discretion
Q2) __________________ ethics determine what people ought to do and defines moral duties based on ethical systems or other means of analysis.
A) Applied
B) Normative
C) Professional
D) Conventional
Answer: B
Q3) ___________________ determines what people ought to do and defines moral duties.
Answer: Normative ethics
Q4) A good Samaritan who jumps into a river to save a drowning child,risking his or her own life to do so,has performed a(n):
A) professional duty
B) ethical duty
C) superogatory action
D) moral duty
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Determining Moral Behavior
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Q1) Which of the following statements about the principle of forfeiture is false?
A) It holds that people who treat others as means to an end forfeit the right to protection of their own freedom and well-being
B) It holds that people who aggress first forfeit their own right to be protected from harm
C) It holds that self-defense is morally unacceptable
D) It holds that lying to a person who threatens harm is acceptable
Answer: C
Q2) The _________________ principle directs a decision maker to act according to a specific,unbending rule.
A) generalization
B) imperative
C) utilitarian
D) golden mean
Answer: B
Q3) The definition of eudaimonia or happiness is equivalent to the idea of hedonism.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Justice and Law
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Q1) Substantive justice involves the determination of just deserts.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Which type of justice is concerned with business dealings?
A) libertarian
B) corrective
C) rectificatory
D) distributive
Answer: C
Q3) The type of justice that looks to the greatest good for all as the end is called:
A) utilitarian justice
B) restorative justice
C) compensatory justice
D) egalitarian justice
Answer: A
Q4) ______________________ is concerned with punishments and sanctions.
Answer: Corrective justice
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Chapter 4: Becoming an Ethical Professional
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Q1) Sanitizing language,such as "wasting" or "whacking" instead of killing is an example of:
A) behavioral classification
B) metaphorical cataloging
C) cognitive adage
D) euphemistic labeling
Q2) ____________________ can be defined as the individual's feelings of competence,and this sense is developed by comparing the self to others.
A) Cognitive dissonance
B) Self-efficacy
C) Euphamistic morality
D) Self-adequacy
Q3) Theorists who view deviance as incomplete socialization have a perspective that is most consistent with learning theory
A)True
B)False
Q4) What advice does Souryal offer to those who desire to be good leaders?
Q5) Describe Bandura's definition of self-regulation and discuss at least four of the ways it can be "turned off."
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Chapter 5: The Police Role in Society
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Q1) Authority is defined as:
A) the right to inherent in a role to use any means to overcome resistance
B) the use of signs and symbols to induce compliance
C) the use of words and arguments to induce compliance
D) the unquestionable entitlement to be obeyed that comes from fulfilling a specific role
Q2) In Brown's typology of police styles,which type of officer emphasizes public order and peace officer tasks?
A) the professional-style officer
B) the service-style officer
C) the clean-beat officer
D) the old-style crime fighter
Q3) Describe Wilson and Brown's typologies of police and explain how each might perceive the role of discretion.
Q4) Brown and Muir both included the "peacemaker" officer in their typologies.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain the public servant role and the crime fighter role and why the two may be inconsistent.
Q6) Explain why some people think the police subculture is breaking down.
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Chapter 6: Police Discretion and Dilemmas
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Q1) Barker and Carter proposed a typology of lies that included:
A) accepted lies
B) blue lies
C) necessary lies
D) placebo lies
Q2) Police are required to divulge the name of the informant on affidavits for search warrants unless there is evidence that revealing the informant's identity would be dangerous.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In May 2010,Arizona passed a controversial law requiring police officers in the state to:
A) ask for proof of citizenship or residency from everyone they stopped
B) ask for proof of citizenship or residency from all motorists
C) ask for proof of citizenship or residency if there was reasonable suspicion that the person was an illegal immigrant
D) ask for proof of citizenship or residency if the person looked Hispanic
Q4) When forensics labs "make up" scientific results it is referred to as
Q5) List and describe the ethical problems of using informants summarized by South.
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Chapter 7: Police Corruption and Misconduct
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Q1) In terms of police corruption,the so-called "Queensland model" has become the most well-known:
A) ethical model
B) integrity model
C) utilitarian model
D) critical model
Q2) The two major arguments against gratuities are the slippery slope argument and the:
A) anti-utilitarian argument
B) blue erosion argument
C) unjust enrichment argument
D) anti-bribe argument
Q3) Barker and Carter proposed that police abuse of authority comes in all of the following areas except:
A) physical abuse
B) psychological abuse
C) legal abuse
D) sexual abuse
Q4) What are the individual,organizational,and societal level explanations for police officer deviance?
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Chapter 8: Law and Legal Professionals
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Q1) In Shaffer and Cochran's typology,the hired gun:
A) engages the client in moral dialogue and tries to convince client of proper course of action
B) controls the client with his own moral compass as guide
C) promotes clients' interest above all others
D) does what the client wants
Q2) The idea that groups in society have fundamental differences and that those in power control societal elements,including law,is called the
Q3) Which of the following is not a rule of legal paternalism?
A) Laws should protect children and other people whose decision-making ability is impaired.
B) Laws should restrict freedom only to the extent that is necessary to protect.
C) Laws should restrict only actions that can produce serious and irreversible harm.
D) Laws should allow private individuals to make decisions about private matters.
Q4) What are Good Samaritan laws? Give examples.
Q5) Explain how people distinguish between law and justice.
Q6) List and discuss the three paradigms of law.
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Chapter 9: Discretion and Dilemmas in the Legal Profession
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Q1) Federal Sentencing Guidelines involve:
A) mandated sentences created by Congress for use by judges when imposing sentence
B) mandated sentences created by the individual states for use by judges when imposing sentence
C) mandated sentences created by the executive branch for use by judges when imposing sentence
D) mandated sentences created by the Bureau of Justice for use by judges when imposing sentence
Q2) One method of prosecutorial discretion to charge or not is "defendant rehabilitation."
A)True
B)False
Q3) In ______________________,the Supreme Court held that it did not violate the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel for the attorney to refuse to help the defendant commit perjury.
A) Bartley v. Montana
B) Brown v. Mississippi
C) Miranda v. Connecticut
D) Nix v. Whiteside
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Chapter 10: Ethical Misconduct in the Courts and Responses
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Q1) In a study conducted by the Columbia Law School,nearly 10 percent of all death verdicts handed down between 1973 and 1995 were reversed because of serious errors.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Natural rights refer to the concept that:
A) one has certain obligations to nature
B) one has certain biological imperatives
C) one has certain rights just by virtue of being born
D) one has no rights, all rights belong the mother earth
Q3) The idea that certain rights and morals are "natural," that is,not human created is called _____________________.
Q4) Which factors have been identified as contributing to false convictions?
Q5) According to the text,those freedoms and protections that the framers of the Constitution would have recognized if they had been asked are called:
A) "human rights"
B) "fundamental liberties"
C) "fundamental rights"
D) "human liberties"
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Chapter 11: The Ethics of Punishments and Corrections
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Q1) _________ basic formula for punishment provides that the utility of punishment to society (by deterring crime)outweighs the negative of the punishment itself.
A) Beccaria's B) Bentham's C) Mackie's D) Rawls's
Q2) The term pluralistic ignorance describes:
A) ignoring the calls of officers in need
B) the vocal minority shaping the perception of subcultural values
C) competing interest groups operating within the prison
D) conflicts between management and officers being reflected in inmate behavior
Q3) The term ____________________ refers to anything used to induce behavioral change with the goal to eliminate dysfunctional or deviant behavior and to encourage productive and normal behavior patterns.
Q4) What are Mackie's three types of retribution? Compare and contrast them.
Q5) Fogel's idea that the punishment of an individual should be limited by the seriousness of the crime although treatment could be offered is referred to as the _____________ model.
Q6) Explain the issues involved in the use of supermax prisons.
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Chapter 12: Discretion and Dilemmas in Corrections
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Q1) The probation or parole officer's power to recommend revocation is:
A) meaningless
B) limited
C) absolute
D) unfettered
Q2) Inmates and correctional officers agree that all of these traits are characteristics of a good officer except:
A) consistency
B) fairness
C) flexibility
D) loyalty
Q3) "Tune-ups" are "lessons" taught to inmates by prison guards that involved verbal humiliation,profanity,shoves,kicks,and head and body slaps in:
a. Florida
b. Texas
c. Alabama
d. Arizona
Q4) Children of inmates are ______________ times more likely to be delinquent.
Q5) List and describe some forms of corruption committed by CO's.
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Chapter 13: Correctional Professionals: Misconduct and Responses
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Q1) Souryal refers to illegitimate acts done for personal gain as:
A) acts of malfeasance
B) acts of nonfeasance
C) acts of misfeasance
D) acts of feasance
Q2) Probation and parole officers who have been arrested for a DWI are immediately terminated.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A group called _________________ was formed at Salinas Valley Prison when inmates who had injured officers in a disturbance were then beaten by the officers in turn.
A) No such group exists
B) "The Green Wall"
C) "The Wall of Pain"
D) "The Salinas Tribunals"
Q4) "Hostile work environment" has to do with the unions objecting to management treatment of officers.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Making Ethical Choices
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Q1) According to the text,utilitarianism is the most pervasive ethical system used in the war on terror.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Babak Pasdar was a whistleblower in what is commonly known as the:
A) "Quantico Circuit"
B) "Abu Ghraib" scandal
C) "1-800-FBI"
D) Pasdar was not a whistleblower
Q3) What are the two justifications for a "just war"?
Q4) In which of the following whistle-blowing incidents was General Taguba involved?
A) The "Quantico Circuit"
B) "Abu Ghraib"
C) The exposure of secret prisons in the Pentagon
D) Taguba was not involved in any of these events
Q5) The ____________________ was passed in response to 9/11,and created greater investigative powers of law enforcement and punished those with association to groups defined as terrorists.
Q6) The terrorists operating in Germany in the 1970s were referred to as the ____________________ gang.
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