Criminal Justice Introduction
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Course Introduction
This course provides a comprehensive overview of the criminal justice system, examining its core components: law enforcement, courts, and corrections. Students will explore the historical development and modern functions of these institutions, the process of criminal case progression, and the roles of legal actors such as police, judges, and attorneys. The course also addresses key concepts including crime typologies, criminal law, due process, and the balance between public safety and individual rights. Through case studies and current event analysis, students will gain insight into contemporary issues such as policing strategies, mass incarceration, and the impact of social factors on crime and justice in society.
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POLICE 2nd Edition by John S. Dempsey
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Chapter 1: Police History
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Q1) The police represent the military power of government.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) In 1991, what Los Angeles incident inflamed police community relations?
A)Charles Manson arrest
B)the L.A.shootout
C)reinstatement of the death penalty
D)Rodney King beating
Answer: D
Q3) The members of the military appointed by Roman Emperor Augustus to protect the palace and the emperor were called the:
A)Royal Guard
B)Praetorian Guard
C)Roman Guard
D)Praefectus Urbi
Answer: B
Q4) The first state police agency was the ____________________.
Answer: Texas Rangers
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Chapter 2: Organizing Security in the United States
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Q1) Many small remote towns and villages cannot afford to hire local police officers and often rely on state troopers based in areas far away.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The latest statistics regarding the number of law enforcement officers in the United States may be obtained from the:
A)Treasury Department
B)Census Bureau
C)National Institute of Justice
D)IRS
Answer: C
Q3) A controversial issue in current law enforcement is the cooperation and escalating involvement of local police with federal immigration officials in enforcing _____________ laws.
Answer: immigration
Q4) The investigative arm of the Navy and Marines is called the __________________.
Answer: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS)
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Chapter 3: Organizing the Police Department
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Q1) Identify who is the backbone of the police department, and tell why this is the most important person in police service.
Answer: The backbone of the police department is the police officer. This is the most important person in police service because they are the ones who are on the front lines, enforcing laws, maintaining public order, and responding to emergencies. Police officers are responsible for protecting the community, investigating crimes, and apprehending criminals. They are also often the first responders in dangerous and life-threatening situations, putting their own safety at risk to protect others. Without police officers, the entire function of the police department would cease to exist, making them the most crucial and essential component of the department.
Q2) All are qualities that a sergeant must possess except:
A)intelligence
B)dedication
C)integrity
D)likeableness
Answer: D
Q3) The U.S.police are a ____________________, as opposed to a military, organization.
Answer: civil
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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) An adverse impact or a different rate of selection occurs when the selection rate for any gender, race, or ethnic group is less than _____ of the selection rate for the group with the highest selection rate.
A)50%
B)60%
C)80%
D)90%
Q3) The average probationary period for police officers ranges from ____________________.
Q4) A form of de facto discrimination resulting from a testing element that discriminates against a particular group, essentially keeping them out of the applicant pool is known as ________ _________.
Q5) A credit check is not often used in the police selection process. A)True B)False
Q6) The ability to interpret, understand, and manage one's own and others' emotions is called _____________.
Q7) Describe typical educational requirements for police selection.
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Chapter 5: The Police Role and Police Discretion
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Q1) Officer Brown believes his role is keeping the peace and preserving the social order, yet he is very careful not to violate the constitutional rights of individuals.According to Broderick, he would be considered a/an:
A)realist
B)optimist
C)enforcer
D)idealist
Q2) Compare and contrast each of James Q.Wilson's police department operational styles.
Q3) A view of the role of the police that emphasizes keeping the peace and providing social services: _________________.
Q4) A serious crime leaves the police less freedom or ability to ignore it or to exercise discretion regarding it.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The U.S.system of criminal justice is interested in the ____________________ in addition to the letter of the law.
Q6) Discuss the impact of Tennessee v.Garner.
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Chapter 6: Police Culture, Personality, and Stress
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Q1) What are some of the methods being used by police departments today to deal with stress?
Q2) Police officers and their families tend to avoid other police officers and their families when they are off duty.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is the police culture or subculture and how does it manifest itself?
Q4) According to research, compared to other professions the police exhibit higher rates of:
A)divorce
B)suicide
C)stress
D)all of the above
Q5) What is the Dirty Harry problem? Could you ever justify an officer acting the way Dirty Harry Callahan did? Why or why not?
Q6) The idea of danger permeates the police subculture.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Why do police officers socialize together?
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Chapter 7: Minorities in Policing
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Q1) Critics of affirmative action argue that selecting police officers based on their race or gender does not violate the 1964 Civil Rights Act and is discriminatory.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The simultaneous expectation by white officers that African American officers will give members of their own race better treatment and receive hostility from the African American community because they are perceived as traitors to their race is known as
Q3) The first important job discrimination case was ____________________.
Q4) What percentage of our police departments today are women, African American, or Hispanic? How do these numbers compare to earlier years?
Q5) According to your text, the first challenge that a minority must face in the law enforcement workplace is ___________.
Q6) The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited all job discrimination based on race, color, ____________________, gender, and national origin.
Q7) Detail the case of Griggs v.Duke Power Company, and explain the impact that this case has had on police hiring.
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Chapter 8: Police Ethics and Police Deviance
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Q1) Detail several explanations of police corruption.
Q2) The most notable commission established to investigate allegations of police corruption was the ____________________ Commission in New York City in 1970.
Q3) ____________________ is the study of what constitutes good or bad conduct.
Q4) Police corruption and police brutality are the most serious forms of police deviance.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Which of the following is not a reason for police corruption as listed in your text?
A)individual officer explanations
B)the police subculture
C)social structure explanations
D)all are reasons for corruption
Q6) A _______ is the payment of money or other contribution to a police officer with the intent to subvert the aim of the criminal justice system.
Q7) Define police corruption, and give several examples of it.
Q8) Explain biased-based policing.
Q9) Explain integrity tests and when they may be appropriate.
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Chapter 9: Patrol Operations
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Q1) Describe the Kansas City Study.What was the major value of the study?
Q2) At the conclusion of the Kansas City Study, no one in the community had any idea that an experiment regarding policing had been conducted in their community.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Using available scientific research on policing to implement crime-fighting strategies and department policies is known as:
A)differential response
B)scientific management
C)community policing
D)evidence-based policing
Q4) The most important and visible part of police work to the public is/are _____.
A)detective operations
B)public appearances by the police chief
C)patrol
D)crime prevention
Q5) Discuss the value of evidence-based 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) Which of the following is a solvability factor in the Managing Criminal Investigations program?
A)Is there a witness?
B)Is a suspect named or known?
C)Will the complainant cooperate?
D)All of the above
Q2) The use of analytical methods to obtain pertinent information on crime patterns and trends that can then be disseminated to officers on the street is called _____.
A)criminal profiling
B)CompStat
C)crime mapping
D)crime analysis
Q3) Explain the detective mystique and how it has developed.
Q4) The ____________________ is an operation in which an undercover police officer purchases a quantity of drugs from a subject, then leaves the scene, contacts the backup team, and identifies the seller.The backup team then arrests the seller.
Q5) Before the Rand study The Criminal Investigation Process, explain how crimes would be solved.
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Chapter 11: Police and the Community
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Q1) A good working relationship between businesses and the police benefits:
A)the police department
B)the business
C)the community
D)none of the above
Q2) The Hispanic community is composed of many different ____________.
Q3) One of the most significant problems facing the police during the past three decades has been the tension, and often outright hostility, between the police and minority group citizens.Most of this tension has focused on relationships between ________________and the police.
Q4) Discuss why it is important for police to work with the homeless population, and describe what types of things are being done.
Q5) Describe the difference between public relations and police community relations.
Q6) According to your text, the most common form of violence that police officers encounter is:
A)domestic violence
B)aggravated assault
C)murder
D)rape
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Chapter 12: Community Policing: The Debate Continues
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Q1) Problem-solving policing emphasizes that many crimes are caused by _____ and attempts to deal with those problems rather than just responding to each criminal incident.
A)management problems
B)police personnel problems
C)teenagers
D)underlying social problems
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) Which of the following is not part of the problem-oriented policing strategy?
A)scattering
B)analysis
C)response
D)assessment
Q4) Many believe that the modern state of community policing began with a seminal 1982 article entitled ______________________________.
Q5) ____________________ involves officers thinking, not just responding to yet another call for duty.
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Chapter 13: Police and the Law
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Q1) Cite three cases involving the police and custodial interrogation.Describe how these cases led to the current custodial interrogation rules in the United States.
Q2) A border search can be made without probable cause, without a warrant, and indeed, without any articulable suspicion at all.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A ____________________ is the detaining of a person by a law enforcement officer for the purpose of investigation, accompanied by a superficial examination of the person's body surface or clothing to discover weapons, contraband, or other objects relating to criminal activity.
Q4) The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution are also known as the ____________________.
Q5) The Bill of Rights applies only to the actions of government agents; it does not apply to private security employees or private citizens not acting on behalf of, or with, official law enforcement agencies.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Explain the significance of the Dickerson decision.
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Chapter 14: Computers, Technology, and Criminalistics in Policing
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Q1) New technology allows officers to rapidly scan ________comparing them to local, state and national databases.
A)license plates
B)drivers licenses
C)Vehicle Identification Numbers
D)DNA
Q2) AFIS first became operational in the:
A)1990s
B)1980s
C)1970s
D)1960s
Q3) ________ technology can be used to search for stolen vehicles, vehicles listed in AMBER Alerts, or vehicles driven by wanted persons.
Q4) DNA "dragnets" are similar to?
A)police line-ups
B)search warrants
C)police roadblocks or checkpoints
D)indictments
Q5) DNA is the abbreviation for ____________________.
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Chapter 15: Homeland Security
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Q1) The ____________________ gives law enforcement personnel new abilities to search, seize, detain, or eavesdrop in their pursuit of possible terrorists.
Q2) Which law expanded the FBI's wiretapping and electronic surveillance authority and allowed nationwide jurisdiction for search warrants and electronic surveillance devices?
A)USA Patriot Act
B)Executive Order 13228
C)Civil Rights Act of 1991
D)all of these
Q3) Every act of terrorism occurring within the United States remains_______ in nature.
Q4) Describe and discuss some state and local law enforcement efforts for homeland security.
Q5) On October 8, 2001, President Bush signed Executive Order 13228, which established the:
A)U.S.Patriot Act
B)War on Terrorism
C)Office of Homeland Security
D)U.S.Anti-Terrorism Act
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