Criminal Justice Exam Practice Tests
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Criminal Justice is an interdisciplinary course that explores the systems, processes, and institutions involved in upholding laws and ensuring public safety. Students will examine the roles and functions of law enforcement agencies, the courts, and corrections, as well as the social, political, and legal foundations of criminal justice in society. The course covers a range of topics including crime theories, policing strategies, judicial procedures, corrections, juvenile justice, and contemporary issues such as criminal justice reform, ethical dilemmas, and the impact of policy on communities. Through case studies and critical analysis, students will gain a comprehensive understanding of how the criminal justice system operates and its significance in achieving justice and maintaining social order.
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Organized Crime 11th Edition by Howard Abadinsky
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Organized Crime
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Q1) Which of the following is \(\underline{\text{NOT}}\) considered to one of the three major bureaucratic levels of an organized crime group?
A)Controller
B)Cells
C)Compartmentalizers
D)Central command
Answer: C
Q2) Organizational affiliation provides a form of _____________ by reputation,facilitating cooperation between criminals.
Answer: credentialing
Q3) All bureaucracies are ____________ organizations sharing a number of attributes (e.g.,a hierarchy,division of labor,extensive written rules and regulations).
A)profit-focused
B)kinship-based
C)rational
D)geographically restricted
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Explanations for Organized Crime
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Q1) Which of the following scholars stated that "American preoccupation with economic success,coupled with socioeconomic stratification,causes strain"?
A)Clifford Shaw and Henry McKay
B)Edwin Sutherland and Donald Cressey
C)Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung
D)Richard Cloward and Lloyd Ohlin
Answer: D
Q2) According to differential association theory,the principal part of
occurs within intimate personal groups.
Answer: learning
Q3) Environmental factors can alter the expression of genes,thus influencing the behavior of the individual.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) The connection between the criminal organizations of southern Italy-Mafia,Camorra,'Ndrangheta-and American organized crime are the _____________,who are recent immigrants.
Answer: Zips
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Chapter 3: United States
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Q1) In the aftermath of the Castellammarese War,five Mafia families emerged in New York City.Which of the following is \(\underline{\text{NOT}}\) one of these five major crime families?
A)Luciano
B)Gambino
C)Colombo
D)Genovese
Answer: A
Q2) Crews generate finances that they share with their patron,who shares it with:
A)the boss.
B)the "earner."
C)the lynchpin.
D)the "made guy."
Answer: A
Q3) Among the Italian immigrants who came to the U.S.in the first few decades of the 1900s,were mafiosi who established protection regimes in every American city that had a sizable Sicilian population.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Italy and Albania
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Q1) During the decades following WWII through the mid-1990s,an estimated three-quarters of what product sold in Naples originated in the black market,sold directly by members of the Camorra?
A)cigarettes
B)guns
C)blue jeans
D)gasoline
Q2) According to Luigi Barzini,which level of organization within the Mafia consists of a group of several families who come together to form a cosca?
A)the first level
B)the second level
C)the third level
D)the fourth level
Q3) Discuss two or three differences between the Nuovo Mafia and the "Old Mafia."
Q4) At the center of a typical Camorra group is a boss whose group is known by his __________; the group is less structured than a Mafia cosca,devoid of formalized titles and rituals.
Q5) What is the Albanian connection to Italian organized crime?
Q6) The traditional Sicilian Mafia pursued _____________,not wealth.
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Chapter 5: Colombia and Mexico
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Q1) Who was Pablo Escobar and what role did he play in advancing organized crime in Colombia?
Q2) The cocaine legacy in Colombia has been allowed to continue due in large part to both the delegitimization of government and:
A)Mexican cartel support.
B)civil wars.
C)increased support of communism.
D)Italian mafia involvement.
Q3) The acronym for "People Persecuted by Pablo Escobar" is:
A)Los PPPE.
B)Los P2PE.
C)Los PEPES.
D)Los P3E.
Q4) In the early 1990s,Mexican criminal organizations struck a deal with the _____________,whose cocaine they moved from Mexico into the United States on a contract basis.
Q5) Explain how and why Mexican cartels became involved with methamphetamine.
Q6) Beginning in 1929,the political party in Mexico known as _____________ has dominated Mexican politics using authoritarian methods to ensure one-party rule.
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Chapter 6: Russia and the Former Soviet Union
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Q1) In the former Soviet Union,law enforcement resources have been inadequate to deal with the menace of organized crime.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In post-Soviet Russia,several years of market reform changed the nature of the nation's economy,and also:
A)improved the standard of living for most people.
B)brought hyperinflation.
C)reduced the level of unemployment.
D)stabilized the political system.
Q3) Which type of structures do Russian organized crime groups create on an as-needed basis to carry out particular crimes?
A)floating
B)rigid
C)strict kinship
D)distinct
Q4) The ethnic-based organized group known as the ________________ are reportedly the only criminal group that does not respect the territoriality of the vory.
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Chapter 7: Asia
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Q1) _____________ laborers were originally brought into the United States after 1848 to work in the gold fields.
Q2) Explain the history of the Chinese experience in the United States.How did this affect organized criminal activity among the Chinese?
Q3) The term triad refers to the Chinese societies' common mystical symbol: an equilateral triangle representing the three basic Chinese concepts of heaven,earth,and man.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The infamous Triad group known as the _____________ has its origins in Communist China's Red Guard,Mao's personal militia established to enforce the "Great Cultural Revolution."
Q5) Define and explain those who call themselves yakuza.Next,how are present-day yakuza different from their historical counterparts?
Q6) The Yamaguchi-gumi is the largest of the boryokudan ("violent groups"),organizations that constitute Japanese organized crime.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Africa
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Q1) The most sinister of the Nigerian frauds is referred to as the 911 royalty scam.
A)True
B)False
Q2) About twice the size of California,____________ is Africa's most populous country: 100 million people divided into 250 ethnic groups with a labor force employed primarily in agriculture.
Q3) West African organized crime groups have specialized in the smuggling of ivory taken from illegally poached elephants.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is \(\underline{\text{NOT}}\) one of the key items trafficked in West Africa?
A)narcotics
B)ivory
C)precious minerals
D)stolen military weapons
Q5) ___________________ and clientelism are widespread in West Africa.Public offices are often entangled with private interests,including those that support illegal activities.
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Chapter 9: Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs
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Q1) The outlaw club phenomenon dates from the years after which war,when many combat veterans,particularly those residing in California,sought new outlets for feelings of hostility and alienation?
A)WWI
B)WWII
C)the Vietnam War
D)the Cold War
Q2) In 1965,the California state's attorney exaggerated the violent activities of the _____________ in his annual report,fueling media interest in the club.
Q3) From the time of its founding in 1948 to the present,the Hell's Angels outlaw motorcycle club evolved from a rowdy support group for social misfits to a sophisticated drug trafficking operation.Trace the events and processes of this transformation.
Q4) Consistent with their founders' background as military veterans,outlaw motorcycle clubs exhibit a hierarchical command structure.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Provide a brief overview of the outlaw motorcycle club known as the "Outlaws."
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Chapter 10: Organized Crime: "Goods and Services"
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Q1) Which of the following is the oldest of the major bookmaking activities?
A)sports wagering
B)dog-race wagering
C)horse-race wagering
D)political race wagering
Q2) Which type of connection is defined as members of a criminal organization requiring legitimate or illegal entrepreneurs to pay a fixed or percentage amount but in return providing services such restricting market entry,debt collection,and arbitration?
A)reciprocal
B)entrepreneurship
C)parasitic
D)patron-client
Q3) Define and explain the process of bookmaking.
Q4) To understand the business of organized crime,we need to consider the degree to which a crime group's business activities are integrated into their organizational structure.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How does trafficking differ from alien smuggling?
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Chapter 11: Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking
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Q1) In 1901,which act was enacted by Congress to prohibit the sale of alcohol and opium to "aboriginal tribes and uncivilized races"?
A)Native Races Act
B)Harrison Act
C)Thompson Act
D)Indigenous Act
Q2) Which country is now considered to be the world's second largest producer of opium and accounts for about 90 percent of the total heroin production of the Golden Triangle?
A)Colombia
B)Japan
C)Myanmar
D)Afghanistan
Q3) Israeli syndicates are reputed to be the source of U.S.distribution of methamphetamine.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Analogs are synthetic versions of drugs such as morphine.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Organized Crime in Labor, Business, and Money Laundering
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Q1) In addition to their illegal business activities,persons involved in organized crime often own or invest in legitimate enterprises.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Money laundering has developed its own lexicon.Which of the following correctly orders the process of laundering of money?
A)placement,layering,integration
B)integration,placement,layering
C)layering,placement,integration
D)integration,layering,placement
Q3) In Chicago,the Laborers' International Union (LIUNA)has always had close ties to the organized crime group known as the _____________.
Q4) Once in control of the International Longshoremen's Association,organized crime found that the shipping industry was not an industry that could be dominated by racketeering.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How does money laundering serve the interests of organized crime?
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Chapter 13: Organized Crime Statutes
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Q1) How is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 used against restraint-of-trade agreements?
Q2) What type of forfeiture is considered to be an in rem (against the property)court proceeding?
A)criminal forfeiture
B)personal forfeiture
C)social forfeiture
D)civil forfeiture
Q3) What does RICO define as any act or threat involving murder,kidnapping,gambling,arson,robbery,bribery,extortion,or dealing in narcotic or other dangerous drugs,which is chargeable under State law and punishable by imprisonment for more than one year?
A)racketeering
B)conspiracy
C)corruption
D)forfeiture
Q4) _____________ is an agreement among competitors to raise,fix,or otherwise maintain the price at which their goods or services are sold.
Q5) In what ways can the Internal Revenue Code be used against organized crime?
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Chapter 14: Investigating and Prosecuting Organized Crime
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Q1) Organized crime is always a major investigative priority for municipal police departments throughout the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the wake of the Reconstruction era,when the Union Army occupied the states of the Confederacy,Congress enacted which 1878 act that prohibited the U.S.Army from performing civilian law enforcement?
A)Occupation Reform Act
B)Reconstruction Act
C)Posse Comitatus Act
D)Unification Act
Q3) Federalism provides a level of inefficiency that handicaps efforts to deal with organized criminal activity.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In intelligence gathering,an analyst uses the methods of social science research,and central to this approach is the _____________.
Q5) Define "immunity." What are the two major types of immunity used by prosecutors?
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