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Criminal Justice Ethics
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Criminal Justice Ethics explores the moral and ethical issues that arise within the criminal justice system, including law enforcement, the courts, and corrections. The course examines various ethical theories and principles, applying them to real-world scenarios such as use of force, discretion, confidentiality, corruption, and justice versus due process. Students analyze the ethical responsibilities of criminal justice professionals and the impact of personal and societal values on decision-making, emphasizing the importance of integrity, accountability, and ethical leadership in fostering public trust and upholding the rule of law.
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Criminal Behavior A Psychological Approach 11th Edition Curt R. Bartol
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Criminal Behavior
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Q1) ADAM,Monitoring the Future,and NSDUH are all examples of surveys that collect data on
A) drug use.
B) hate crime.
C) sex offending.
D) status offenses.
Answer: A
Q2) Belief in a(n)________ just-world is associated with less compassion for others and a derogation of victims of crime.
Answer: general
Q3) Strain theory originated in the work of sociologist ________.
Answer: Robert K.Merton
Q4) According to crime experts,the dark figure represents the most violent crimes.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q5) The focus of the textbook is the repetitive and ________ offender. Answer: persistent
Q6) Theories of crime can be divided into classical and ________ schools.
Answer: positivist
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Chapter 2: Origins of Criminal Behavior: Developmental Risk Factors
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Q1) Both the cumulative risk and developmental cascade models emphasize that antisocial behavior can be attributed to the single risk factor of peer rejection.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) According to attachment theory,infants who cling anxiously to their mother without much exploration when placed in new environments are displaying A) intimacy avoidance.
B) minimal exploration.
C) clinging reaction.
D) anxious/ambivalent attachment.
Answer: D
Q3) Research on IQ and delinquency has not supported the relationship between the two.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) The leading psychological diagnosis for American children is ________.
Answer: ADHD
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Chapter 3: Origins of Criminal Behavior: Biological Factors
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Q1) All of the following processes are considered executive functions except A) logic.
B) reasoning.
C) fidgeting.
D) problem solving.
Answer: C
Q2) Which neurotoxin is also an essential trace element?
A) Lead
B) Manganese
C) Selenium
D) Mercury
Answer: B
Q3) Steinberg's dual developmental model of brain development focuses on the impulsivity that characterizes the teenage years.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) The fetus and children less than ________ years of age appear to be the most vulnerable to neurotoxins.
Answer: two
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Chapter 4: Origins of Criminal Behavior: Learning and Situational
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Q1) The September 11,2001 attack on the Pentagon is an example of a frustration-induced riot.
A)True
B)False
Q2) If Bandura's position is essentially correct,then aggressive and violent behavior can be substantially reduced by A) providing appropriate models.
B) physically punishing children for aggressive behavior.
C) controlling the sale of guns and weapons in our society.
D) reducing high school truancy.
Q3) Explain the concept of deindividuation and illustrate by describing any one experiment in social psychology.
Q4) According to Julian Rotter,whether a particular pattern of behavior will occur depends on A) operant conditioning.
B) classical conditioning.
C) our ability to control biological drives.
D) our expectancies and how much we value the outcome.
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Q5) Briefly explain Bandura's theory of moral disengagement.
Q6) Learning the consequences of one's behavior is the basis of ________ learning.
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Chapter 5: Human Aggression and Violence
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Q1) The psychodynamic approach to the treatment of aggressive behavior would most likely emphasize
A) appropriate modeling.
B) reinforcement.
C) reduction of aggressive energy through supervised aggressive behavior.
D) avoidance of aggressive-provoking stimuli.
Q2) The tendency to perceive hostile intent in others even when it is totally lacking is called
A) hostile preference.
B) Meckel's syndrome.
C) hostile attribution bias.
D) inductive bias.
Q3) What do Edinboro,Pennsylvania,Fayetteville,Tennessee,and Jonesboro,Arkansas have in common?
A) They are all locations of school-shooter copycats.
B) They are all locations of road range incidents.
C) They are all locations of terror attacks.
D) They are all locations of media-induced violent attacks.
Q4) What does the current research suggest about the effects of violent video games on aggressive behavior?
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Chapter 6: Juvenile Delinquincy
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Q1) A program designed to prevent delinquent behavior before any signs of the behavioral pattern emerge is called
A) secondary prevention.
B) universal prevention.
C) tertiary prevention.
D) selective prevention.
Q2) Scott Henggeler and his colleagues have designed a treatment approach for serious juvenile offenders that is responsive to many of the social systems influencing the child's delinquent behavior.This treatment approach is called
A) multisystemic therapy.
B) restrictive intervention.
C) Gestalt therapy.
D) rehabilitative intervention.
Q3) The Girls Study Group found that girls fight more frequently at home with parents than do boys.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Research indicates that most serious juvenile offenders ________ their offending over time.
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Chapter 7: Criminal Psychopathy
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Q1) The autonomic nervous system of the psychopath appears to be A) deformed.
B) insufficient.
C) ineffective.
D) underaroused.
Q2) The primary psychopath is also known as a A) neurotic.
B) violent criminal.
C) submissive.
D) true psychopath.
Q3) The childhood of the psychopath is often characterized by A) hyperactivity.
B) cruelty to animals.
C) enuresis.
D) fire setting.
Q4) Studies have underscored the observations that children and adolescents with psychopathic features show distinct sets of emotional and cognitive deficits that lead to their violent and anti-social behavior.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Crime and Mental Disorders
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Q1) In Tarasoff v.Regents of the University of California (1974.,the Supreme Court of California held that a psychotherapist has an obligation to use reasonable care to protect potential victims of a patient.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Structured professional judgment is also referred to as structured ________ judgment.
Q3) Most contemporary research indicates that the percentage of mentally disordered inmates in the nation's jails and prisons is ________.
Q4) In Foucha v.Louisiana,the U.S.Supreme Court ruled that defendants found NGRI could
A) not be retried once they were no longer insane.
B) not remain hospitalized once they were no longer mentally disordered.
C) be hospitalized for as long as they remain dangerous.
D) be given medication to treat their disorder.
Q5) Adjudicative competence involves competence to proceed and ________ competence.
Q6) MPD is synonymous with dissociative identity disorder.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Homicide, Assault, and Family Violence
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Q1) When a caregiver fabricates or intentionally causes symptoms in those they are caring for in order to seek and obtain medical treatment,it is usually a case of A) the woozle effect.
B) phanerothyme.
C) Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
D) Landau-Kleffner syndrome.
Q2) Discuss four ways juveniles are able to access guns,despite the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act.
Q3) Spousal and child abuse appears to occur primarily in economically disadvantaged families.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The homicide victimization rate for blacks is ________ times higher than for whites.
Q5) Alcohol and drug abuse appear to A) play a causal role in family violence.
B) exacerbate but not cause in family violence.
C) cause child abuse but not spouse abuse.
D) cause spousal abuse but not child abuse.
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Chapter 10: Multiple Murder, School, and Workplace
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Q1) Classic murders also may be called ________ mass murders.
Q2) Geographic profiling focuses on the ________ of the crime.
Q3) Research indicates that serial murderers generally begin their careers of repetitive homicide at a relatively ________ age.
Q4) The majority of mass murderers plan to die at the crime scene.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Investigative psychology is to ________ as profiling is to ________.
A) the crime scene; the offender
B) criminal analysis; criminal tendencies
C) forensics; anthropology
D) anthropology; forensics
Q6) Public mass shootings are also known as
A) active shooter situations.
B) domestic terrorism.
C) geographical profiling.
D) serial killing events.
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Q7) The actuarial approach concentrates on the description,understanding,and identification of a(n)________ offender.
Q8) Columbine's death toll was surpassed by the shootings at ________ in 2007.
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Chapter 11: Psychology of Terrorism
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Q1) Bandura believes that terrorists justify their horrific acts in what way?
A) Through a process of cognitive restructuring
B) By associating themselves with religious zeal
C) By accepting responsibility for their actions
D) Through a process of learned helplessness
Q2) Left-wing extremist groups become terrorists when they move from ________ activism to violent activities.
Q3) Why would a terrorist volunteer for a suicide mission?
Q4) According to the concept of euphemistic language,people can display more cruelty or at least can feel better about what they are doing when their conduct is given a ________ label.
Q5) People who have a ________ bias perceive a connection between what people do,are,or believe in,and what happens to them.
Q6) Diffusion of responsibility is similar to the concept of A) deindividuation.
B) risky shift.
C) authority conformity.
D) moral destruction.
Q7) The aim of terrorism is to create ________ in a civilian population.
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Chapter 12: Sexual Assault
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Q1) Compare and contrast the Groth typology of rape and the Massachusetts Treatment Center's Classification Systems of rapists.
Q2) The Knight and Sims-Knight Three-path model identifies causal pathways in the development of
A) irresistible impulses.
B) mental disorders of rapists.
C) attitudes that support rape.
D) sexual coercive behavior in male offenders.
Q3) Define RNR principles and their relevance to treatment of adult sex offenders.
Q4) What is the first step in the treatment and rehabilitation of sex offenders?
A) Assess the risk of reoffending
B) Deliver treatment that is consistent with the ability and learning style of the offender
C) Offer adequate community support services
D) Develop a plan to improve social skills
Q5) In the UCR,statutory rapes is considered a A) noncriminal event.
B) Part I crime.
C) social issue.
D) Part II crime.
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Chapter 13: Sexual Assault of Children and Youth
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Q1) Which statement is true of sex trafficking?
A) The average age of trafficked children has been getting younger.
B) Most traffickers are members of an organized crime group.
C) The average age of trafficked children has been getting older.
D) Most traffickers are not violent.
Q2) JSOs who sexually victimize peers or adults are more likely to have a more extensive criminal history compared to JSOs who victimize children.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Research suggests that women almost always commit sex offenses against male victims.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Most estimates of the distribution of pedophiles in the general population are derived from
A) arrest and prison data.
B) treatment and actuarial data.
C) self-report data.
D) clinical data.
Q5) Adult CSOs most frequently use a ________ setting to commit their sexual abuse.
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Chapter 14: Burglary, Home Invasions, Thefts, and White Collar Offenses
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Q1) There has been a growth in the prevalence of auto theft involving ________ as a method of access.
Q2) Which type of crime is rarely examined in white-collar crime research?
A) Political crime
B) Embezzlement
C) Antitrust violations
D) Fraud
Q3) Green's categories of white-collar crime are mutually exclusive.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which statement is true about carjacking?
A) Women are carjacked more than men.
B) The driver is frequently killed by the carjacker.
C) Eighty-seven percent of carjackers are drinking alcohol at the time of the crime.
D) Carjacking incidents are highest in urban areas.
Q5) The irresistible impulse to steal unneeded objects is referred to as kleptomania.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Violent Economic Crime, Cybercrime, and
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Q1) A hostage is most likely to survive a hostage situation if she A) plays the subordinate role and not attract attention to oneself.
B) attempts to reason with the hostage takers.
C) becomes assertive and argumentative.
D) pleads for mercy.
Q2) Both the number of robberies reported to police and the robbery rate have ________ in recent years.
Q3) Research suggests hostage-taking incidents are rarely perpetrated by mentally disordered individuals.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The primary object of banks during a robbery is to ensure the ________ of employers and customers.
Q5) Which type of stalker does not seek a personal relationship with their targets?
A) Love obsession
B) Possessive
C) Vengeance
D) Erotomania
Q6) Explain the motivations and situational dynamics behind street robbery.
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Chapter 16: Substance Abuse, Alcohol, and Crime
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Q1) According to the text,juveniles who occasionally sell drugs to friends frequently become involved in serious delinquency.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Consuming five or more drinks within a very brief period of time or on one occasion is known as
A) alcohol abuse.
B) tranquilizing effect.
C) alcoholism.
D) binge drinking.
Q3) More individuals are incarcerated in jails and prisons for drug offenses than for any other offense.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe and explain briefly Goldstein's tripartite conceptual model for understanding the drug/crime relationship.
Q5) Psychedelics is another name for hallucinogens.
A)True
B)False
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