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Course Introduction
Criminal Justice Administration explores the structure, functions, and processes of the criminal justice system, including law enforcement, courts, and corrections. The course examines management theories, leadership strategies, organizational dynamics, policy development, and ethical considerations relevant to administering justice. Students will analyze how criminal justice agencies interact with each other and the community, with a focus on effective decision-making, problem-solving, resource allocation, and the impact of contemporary challenges such as technology and criminal justice reform. The course prepares students for leadership roles by providing foundational knowledge and practical skills essential for administrators in the field.
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Police Crime Control Strategies 1st Edition by Larry Hoover
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Chapter 1: Police Crime Control Strategy Development
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Q1) In controlling civil protests in the 1960s,American police agencies killed how many protestors?
A) four
B) approximately 100
C) at least 100
D) none
Answer: D
Q2) Evidence is overwhelming that concentrated patrol in hot spots has a significant effect on
A) disorderly conduct and nuisance offenses.
B) suppressible street crime.
C) property crime.
D) drug trafficking.
Answer: A
Q3) A core component of problem-oriented policing is the employment of A) directed patrol.
B) crime analysis.
C) nontraditional interventions.
D) integrated patrol and investigations.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: The Police Effect on Crime
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Q1) It can be concluded from replications of the Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment,which were conducted in six cities,that
A) mediation is nearly always the best resolution.
B) arrest is not necessarily the best resolution.
C) referral to social agencies is fruitless.
D) abuse is an intractable behavior.
Answer: B
Q2) To assert that the police make no difference at all on crime rates is
A) a logical conclusion from the totality of research.
B) our current "best guess."
C) overly cautious.
D) illogical.
Answer: D
Q3) Chicago's Violence Initiative Strategy Evaluation (VISE)program is best characterized as a classic model of
A) community policing.
B) problem-oriented policing.
C) Compstat.
D) crackdowns.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: The Role of Community Policing
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Q1) Analysis of the array of community engagement programs tested in Redlands,California,found what difference in citizen attitudes between experimental and control areas?
A) Experimental areas were more supportive of the police.
B) Experimental areas were less fearful of crime.
C) Control areas were actually more supportive of the police.
D) No differences were found.
Answer: D
Q2) A community policing program particularly subject to cost-benefit analysis is
A) neighborhood watch.
B) citizen advising groups.
C) problem solving using the full SARA model.
D) specialized community policing roles/positions.
Answer: D
Q3) As a strategic approach,the only universal attribute of community policing is
A) problem solving.
B) structured community contact.
C) foot patrol.
D) deployment by analysis.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Focusing Community Policing and Problem-Solving on Crime Reduction
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Q1) The questions or issues that are relevant to the "every officer is a community policing officer" model include which of the following?
A) Is the model simply politically correct rhetoric?
B) Can agencies afford the cost?
C) Who among team members is responsible for what?
D) Does the model fragment and isolate patrol services?
Q2) Using the overlay model,community resource officers are usually assigned to an aggregation of
A) city blocks.
B) census tracts.
C) four or five regular patrol beats.
D) several offense categories.
Q3) Analysis of the evidence regarding the impact of community policing on crime
A) provides strong support.
B) does not provide strong support.
C) supports engagement but not problem solving.
D) supports problem solving but not engagement.
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Chapter 5: A Typology of Crime Reduction Strategies
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Q1) Quick deployment capability requires that staffing be at what level?
A) 4.5 officers per thousand population
B) the minimal ability for targeted deployment
C) comparable to that in Chicago
D) comparable to that in New York City
Q2) The current dominant crime reduction strategy in the United States is
A) community-oriented policing.
B) problem-oriented policing.
C) Compstat.
D) intelligence-led policing.
Q3) The "founder" of community policing,Robert Trojanowicz,began his presentations by noting that community policing's primary purpose was to
A) create integrated neighborhoods.
B) restructure the police as neighborhood managers.
C) take the predators off the streets.
D) reinvent policing.
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Chapter 6: Geographic Targeting Strategies
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Q1) The single most frequent offense involving problematic individual businesses is A) robbery of patrons.
B) so-called "beer runs."
C) failure to pay, such as gas station drive-offs.
D) illicit copying of credit card numbers.
Q2) Stressed apartment complexes generate a disproportionate number of calls involving
A) interpersonal violence.
B) petty complaints.
C) landlord-tenet disputes.
D) disorderly youth.
Q3) The theoretical context for hot spot concentrated intervention lies in which criminological theory?
A) differential association
B) routine activities
C) social disorganization
D) conflict
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Chapter 7: Offense Targeting Strategies
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Q1) The most expensive form of control of drug distribution enterprises is
A) surveillance.
B) buy and bust.
C) buy and walk.
D) buy and warrant.
Q2) An illustration of offense clusters is
A) theft from vehicles/theft of vehicles.
B) theft from vehicles/gas station drive-offs.
C) "broken windows" offenses/auto theft.
D) "broken windows" offenses/bank robberies.
Q3) The use of mind-altering chemicals is
A) a product of modern chemistry.
B) a product of modern pharmacology.
C) a post-World War II phenomenon.
D) as old as human civilization.
Q4) Bait vehicles are equipped with
A) indelible ink on the steering wheel.
B) a disabled starter motor.
C) a GIS navigation unit.
D) a GPS broadcast unit.
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Chapter 8: Offender Targeting Strategies
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Q1) The effectiveness of broken windows enforcement is open to debate,or unclear,in what setting?
A) New York City
B) subways
C) horizontal cities west of the Mississippi River
D) densely populated areas
Q2) The most frequently used enforcement approach to suppress behaviors of offenders creating disorder is
A) intensive field interviews.
B) broken windows enforcement.
C) decoy operations.
D) surveillance apprehension.
Q3) Today's networked adult street gangs,in comparison to the mafia,are
A) less destructive.
B) more selective in recruiting members.
C) more discrete.
D) far more destructive.
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Chapter 9: Compstat and Crime Control
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Q1) Ultimately,the linkage between Compstat and community policing is best described by which of the following statements?
A) At the core, they reflect the same approach to crime control.
B) Compstat is a variant of community policing.
C) Community policing is a variant of Compstat.
D) Compstat is an alternative to community policing.
Q2) The validity of the crime drop in New York in the 1990s as reported by NYPD is reinforced by parallel statistics reported by what two entities?
A) data compiled by the New York State Police and New York Bureau for Municipal Police
B) the BJS's Victimization Surveys and the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports
C) homicides as reported by public health departments and theft claims reported by auto insurance companies
D) the New York and New Jersey Port Authority and Regional Fusion Centers
Q3) Compstat was developed in what decade?
A) 1970s
B) 1980s
C) 1990s
D) 2000s
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Chapter 10: Conducting Crime Strategy Meetings
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Q1) Crime strategy meetings are doomed to degenerate into staff briefings unless there is discussion of
A) accountability.
B) strategic vision.
C) crime interdiction.
D) efficiency issues.
Q2) The most cited problem with the employment of GIS for crime analysis is that it too often is
A) confusing.
B) a blur of dots.
C) technically riddled with "bugs."
D) actually an impediment to analysis.
Q3) If the data presented at a crime strategy meeting is a month old,then the emphasis of the meeting is likely
A) tactical planning.
B) accountability.
C) balanced between tactical planning and accountability.
D) pointless, and wasting everyone's time.
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Chapter 11: The Resurrection of Sherlock Holmes
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Q1) A little-recognized "technology" with rapidly expanding investigative utility is A) the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS).
B) the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS).
C) the National Integrated Ballistics Information Network (NIBIN).
D) surveillance cameras.
Q2) Repeat-offender units have all but disappeared because of A) the emergence of DNA evidence.
B) the declining status of detectives.
C) lack of arrest productivity.
D) supplanting by cold case units.
Q3) Within the police profession itself,the status of detectives has A) always been very high.
B) sagged, but is again on the rise.
C) never been higher.
D) been waning for three decades.
Q4) The clearance-by-exception statistic might be characterized as the epitome of A) Compstat-style accountability.
B) a reality-grounded productivity measure.
C) fuzzy math.
D) the idea that statistics do not lie, but statisticians do.
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Chapter 12: Staffing for Crime Control
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Q1) To quantify investigative "time spent" for purposes of deployment allocation models,cases are best categorized by
A) criminal code.
B) UCR classification.
C) NIBRS classification.
D) required investigative effort.
Q2) Among the policy variables in simulation models of patrol allocation is A) number of calls-for-service.
B) number of roadway miles.
C) percentage of priority-one calls for which there will be at least one officer available.
D) average response speed for emergency activities.
Q3) The impact of implementing GPS tracking of the location of patrol cars has A) not been dramatic.
B) been substantial for response time.
C) been substantial for guiding the use of proactive patrol.
D) been far more substantial in rural jurisdictions.
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Chapter 13: Deployment for Crime Control
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Q1) During Compstat meetings,interdiction efforts are frequently described as having begun with
A) a tip from a citizen.
B) the insight of an astute detective.
C) a simple patrol stop of a vehicle.
D) the SARA form of problem analysis.
Q2) Agency sponsorship of a ministerial alliance is an example of A) problem-oriented policing.
B) community-oriented policing.
C) an offender-focused orientation.
D) a geographically focused orientation.
Q3) Typically,the redeployment of resources for an emerging crime pattern should occur A) immediately.
B) within 72 hours.
C) within 14 days.
D) within 30 days.
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Chapter 14: Limitations on the Police Role
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Q1) Appropriate policy relevant to structured use of emergency standby time should A) be premised upon fire department practice.
B) incorporate SARA-style problem-solving projects for patrol officers.
C) be premised upon reengineering patrol services.
D) involve officers in proactive crime targeting endeavors.
Q2) The need to deploy geographically dispersed patrol units to be on emergency standby
A) is a leftover from the days before two-way radios.
B) imposes significant limitations on the police role.
C) creates opportunities not available to public safety colleagues in firefighting.
D) makes it impossible for regular patrol units to participate in crime control.
Q3) The relationship between maintaining emergency availability and quality handling of calls-for-service is best described by the term A) spurious.
B) ineffectual.
C) strained.
D) symbiotic.
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Chapter 15: Evaluating Strategic Impact
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Q1) The status of evaluations of police crime interdiction efforts is best characterized as which of the following?
A) knowing nearly everything we need to know
B) extensive and thorough
C) exemplifying both breadth and depth
D) barely having scratched the surface
Q2) Replication of the Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment implies
A) the need for replication of all police research.
B) that there were flaws in the initial evaluative design.
C) that the initial research was valid.
D) that the initial research lacked validity.
Q3) Police strategy research was in effect "frozen" for twenty-five years by the
A) community-/problem-oriented policing movement.
B) National Institute of Justice funding policy.
C) initial negative research findings.
D) resistance to change by police associations/unions.
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