Criminal Justice Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
Criminal Justice is an interdisciplinary field that examines the various systems, institutions, and processes established by governments to uphold social control, deter and mitigate crime, and sanction those who violate laws with criminal penalties and rehabilitation efforts. This course covers fundamental principles and theories of criminal law, law enforcement, the courts, and corrections, emphasizing the historical evolution and contemporary challenges of each component. Students will explore topics such as policing strategies, criminal procedures, the rights of the accused, correctional practices, and the impact of public policy on justice administration, preparing them to critically assess the effectiveness and fairness of the criminal justice system.
Recommended Textbook POLICE 2nd Edition by John S. Dempsey
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Chapter 1: Police History
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Q1) The first state police agency was the ____________________.
Answer: Texas Rangers
Q2) The man who is credited with establishing London's first large-scale, civil police department in 1829 was Sir Robert Peel.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) By the 1880s, what private national detective agency had offices in nearly two dozen cities?
A)Brinks
B)Pinkerton
C)Wells Fargo
D)Rocky Mountain Detective Association
Answer: B
Q4) The "watch and ward" required all men to serve on the ___________. Answer: Night Watch
Q5) The Praetorian Guard could be considered the first actual police officers. A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Organizing Security in the United States
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Q1) Rural and small-town law enforcement agencies engage in ____________________ programs with neighboring agencies and come to one another's aid when necessary.
Answer: mutual assistance
Q2) The vast majority of law enforcement agencies are operated by:
A)municipal or city governments
B)state government
C)federal government
D)private companies
Answer: A
Q3) The four major U.S.cabinet departments that administer most federal law enforcement agencies and personnel are the Department of Justice, the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Homeland Security, and the ____________________.
Answer: Department of the Interior
Q4) All are considered local law enforcement agencies except:
A)campus police
B)transit police
C)rail road police
D)metropolitan police
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Organizing the Police Department
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Q1) The smallest geographical area a single patrol unit can patrol effectively is called a:
A)precinct
B)sector
C)beat
D)zone
Answer: C
Q2) Informal job actions by officers in which they refuse to perform certain job functions in an attempt to win labor concessions from their employers is called _____.
A)blue flu
B)sit-out
C)blackout
D)blue-out
Answer: A
Q3) Most police management experts say the span of control in a police department should be one supervisor to every six to ten officers of a lower rank.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Becoming a Police Officer
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Q1) List and discuss the major steps in the police selection process.
Q2) In the ____________________ simulation, targets depicting "good guys" and "bad guys" pop up, requiring officers to make split-second decisions.
Q3) What percentage of the United States law enforcement agencies has vacancies according to your text?
A)60%
B)80%
C)40%
D)35%
Q4) The background investigation for most police department's usually only looks back five years into the applicant's life and history.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Detail the criticisms of physical agility testing.
Q6) The first step after submitting an application to a department is the ________________.
Q7) Describe the role of the FTO in the training process.
Q8) Describe the 10 processes for a solid background investigation
Q9) Describe the field training process.
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Chapter 5: The Police Role and Police Discretion
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Q1) The two primary goals and objectives of police departments, according to Sheehan and Cordner are:
A)maintain order and protect life
B)investigate crimes and make arrest
C)maintain order and prevent crime
D)arrest individuals and protect property
Q2) The police officer is generally the first decision maker in the U.S.criminal justice system and is often the most important.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The vast majority of arrests the police make are for:
A)violent crimes
B)property crimes
C)financial crimes
D)quality of life crimes
Q4) All are secondary goals of policing except:
A)preventing crime
B)arresting and prosecuting offenders
C)assisting the sick and injured
D)all are secondary goals of policing
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Chapter 6: Police Culture, Personality, and Stress
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Q1) The deadliest decade for law enforcement officers so far was the _________.
Q2) Discuss why police officers commit suicide at very high rates.Explain what can be done to lower this suicide rate.
Q3) The body's reaction to highly stressful situations is known as the ____________________.
Q4) A situation in which police officers trust only other police officers and do not aid in the investigation of wrongdoing by other officers is called the:
A)red curtain
B)blue curtain
C)blue shield
D)red shield
Q5) Suicide is a serious problem in policing.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The ethical problem in which police are confronted with situations in which they feel forced to take certain illegal actions to achieve a greater good is known as the ____________________ problem.
Q7) What is the police culture or subculture and how does it manifest itself?
Q8) Explain the phenomenon of suicide by cop.
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Chapter 7: Minorities in Policing
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Q1) Explain how minorities still face problems in policing.
Q2) All are issues women face in the law enforcement workplace except:
A)pregnancy
B)dating
C)family issues
D)drug use
Q3) The most prevalent form of discrimination has been:
A)separate job titles
B)disparate recruiting
C)de facto discrimination
D)standard discrimination
Q4) Discuss the many ways that women have been discriminated against in policing.
Q5) _____ of sworn personnel in local police departments are African American.
A)11.9%
B)20.7%
C)5.2%
D)18.9%
Q6) What percentage of our police departments today are women, African American, or Hispanic? How do these numbers compare to earlier years?
Q7) The first important job discrimination case was ____________________.
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Chapter 8: Police Ethics and Police Deviance
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Q1) ____________________ are the rather broad moral principles that govern all conduct.
Q2) Detail several explanations of police corruption.
Q3) Which is not a type of office corruption according to the author?
A)taking bribes
B)taking gratuities
C)theft or burglary
D)choosing not to arrest an individual who they know
Q4) Generally, the citizen oversight boards established to review allegations of brutality by police officers have no power to discipline offending officers.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain the different types of police misconduct review systems.
Q6) __________ are items of value received by someone because of his or her role or job rather than because of a personal relationship.
Q7) ____________________ is the study of what constitutes good or bad conduct.
Q8) Discuss the emotional toll on officers when going through an internal investigation.
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Q9) Explain the areas that are the source for police civil liability.
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Chapter 9: Patrol Operations
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Q1) In recent years, _______________ has become a serious problem on our highways and roads.
Q2) Which of the following is not one of the three traditional ways we do police work in the United States?
A)retroactive investigation of past crimes by detectives
B)routine random patrol
C)proactive investigations
D)rapid response to calls by citizens to 911
Q3) Which is not an innovative way to address responding to community problems and 911 calls according to your text?
A)directed patrol
B)split-force patrol
C)C.O.P.S.
D)differential response
Q4) What are the three traditional methods we have used to do police work in the United States?
Q5) ____________________ is the backbone of policing.
Q6) Why do citizens seem to want more police officers on foot patrol rather than in police cars?
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Chapter 10: Investigations
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Q1) In recent years, there has been an increase in the use of multi-agency investigative task forces.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Repeat offender programs (ROPs) are based on the fact that only a few criminals are responsible for most of the predatory street crime in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q3) List some examples of solvability factors.
Q4) Detectives in a decentralized squad are considered _____.
A)specialists
B)generalists
C)to be in field training
D)felony-only detectives
Q5) Undercover operations target all of the following crimes except: A)robbery
B)DUI
C)burglary
D)selling stolen goods
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Chapter 11: Police and the Community
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Q1) The program GREAT is aimed at helping the elderly avoid telephone scams.
A)True
B)False
Q2) It is estimated that there are approximately 70 million physically disabled people in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The school resource officer, a position designed to combat the increase of juvenile crime and improve relationships between school children and the police, has proven to be effective.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Hispanic community is composed of many different ____________.
Q5) Why have some police departments historically had a poor relationship with the African American community?
Q6) Why is it essential that the police maintain positive relationships with the community?
Q7) The relationships involved in both human relations and public relations between the police and the community are called ____________________.
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Chapter 12: Community Policing: The Debate Continues
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Q1) Discuss the ways community policing is being or can be used in the fight against terror.
Q2) This philosophy of empowering citizens and developing a partnership between the police and the community to work together to solve problems is called
Q3) What involves a continued reliance on traditional policing operations?
A)strategic policing
B)community policing
C)citizen-based policing
D)political-based policing
Q4) Which of the following was not one of the corporate strategies of policing described by the Executive Sessions on Policing?
A)team policing
B)strategic policing
C)community policing
D)problem-solving policing
Q5) Programs through which officers live in particular communities to strengthen relations between the police and the community are called
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Q6) What is the rationale behind problem-oriented policing?
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Chapter 13: Police and the Law
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Q1) "Evidence that may lead a reasonable person to believe that a crime has been committed and that a certain person committed it" is the definition of:
A)beyond a reasonable doubt
B)reasonable suspicion
C)probable cause
D)likely evidence
Q2) Search warrants are necessary for all searches by police officers.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The standard of proof that is necessary for police officers to conduct stops and frisks is known as ____________________.
Q4) A border search can be made:
A)on probable cause
B)on reasonable suspicion
C)without any articulable suspicion
D)all of the above
Q5) Cite three cases involving the police and search and seizure.Describe how these cases led to the current search and seizure rules in the United States.
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Chapter 14: Computers, Technology, and Criminalistics in Policing
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Q1) Discuss fingerprint technology.How has it evolved over the years?
Q2) What is used in the examination of guns and bullets?
A)ballistics
B)serology
C)criminalistics
D)chemistry
E)document analysis
Q3) The analysis of poisons and other toxic substances in a person's body is called:
A)forensic toxicology
B)forensic pathology
C)forensic physical anthropology
D)forensic odontology
Q4) Latent prints are impressions left on evidence.
A)True
B)False
Q5) DNA "dragnets" are similar to?
A)police line-ups
B)search warrants
C)police roadblocks or checkpoints
D)indictments
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Chapter 15: Homeland Security
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Q1) The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States is popularly known as the 9/11 Commission.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Enforcement efforts made against terrorist organizations are called:
A)cyberterrorism
B)counterterrorism
C)counterintelligence
D)CompStat
Q3) How does the USA Patriot Act support homeland security?
Q4) The TSA conduct security inspections of all air passengers and air travel.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Most experts believe that loosely affiliated extremists pose the most urgent threat to the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The ____________________ gives law enforcement personnel new abilities to search, seize, detain, or eavesdrop in their pursuit of possible terrorists.
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