Criminal Justice Policy Exam Solutions
Course Introduction
This course provides an in-depth examination of the policies shaping the criminal justice system, focusing on how laws, practices, and reforms impact law enforcement, the courts, and corrections. Students explore the theoretical underpinnings and practical applications of policy development, as well as the interplay between policy makers, practitioners, and communities. Topics include policy analysis, evidence-based approaches, mass incarceration, sentencing reform, and strategies for promoting justice and equity. The course emphasizes the evaluation of current policies and encourages critical thinking about innovations that can address contemporary challenges within the criminal justice system.
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Policing 2nd Edition by John
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Chapter 1: Origins and Evolution of American Policing
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Q1) The events that took place outside the Democratic National Convention in 1969 were an impetus for
A) requirements that police be trained in negotiation tactics.
B) reform of the Chicago police department under Mayor Richard Daley.
C) arrest and prosecution of all protestors and police on the scene.
D) public outcry that resulted in the beginning of the community era of policing.
Answer: D
Q2) All the following are true of New York City s early police force except which one?
A) It was modeled on London s Metropolitan Police.
B) It was formed in 1844.
C) It initially patrolled only during the day.
D) It had about 800 officers.
Answer: D
Q3) The tithing system was based on multiples of ten.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Policing in American Context
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Q1) Membership in the National Black Police Association is not open to officers who are not African -American.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The branch of government that influences the police through grant funding is the branch.
Answer: legislative
Q3) Explain how democracy, by its very nature, leads inevitably to crime. Give examples of how criminals activities are facilitated by democracy s tenets.
Answer: Answers will vary. Students should note that the protection of individual rights and individual privacy provides the opportunity for criminal activity to be planned clandestinely, to sometimes escape detection when it is carried out, and to be difficult to document during the investigation stage. Examples should demonstrate these points.
Q4) In a large city, the executive body that sets policy for and oversees a police department is the police .
Answer: commission
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Chapter 3: Law Enforcement Agencies and Their Organization
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Q1) The model of state law enforcement that is more similar to a traditional municipal police agency is the policing model.
Answer: decentralized
Q2) How is the FBI s mission relevant to local policing?
Answer: The FBI s mission to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats is relevant to local policing because it generally helps to create national security and extends the mission of local law enforcement agencies. The FBI s mission to uphold and enforce criminal laws of the United States duplicates the local mission, but on a different scale and with different resources and with a focus on national issues. The FBI s mission to provide leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners extends local police capabilities with resources that they would otherwise not have access to.
Q3) The Homeland Security Act of 2002 created the cabinet -level department now called the Department of Security.
Answer: Homeland
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Chapter 4: Becoming a COP
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Q1) Sexual harassment in police departments is now a thing of the past.
A)True
B)False
Q2) All police departments in the United States have identical testing requirements.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Column 1: post-shooting trauma
Column 2: the response of some officers to a shooting in which the officer critically wounds or kills someone or a fellow officer is killed or critically wounded
Q4) Eustress is the opposite of distress.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is a key characteristic of the patronage system that sets it apart from the civil service system in police department hiring?
A) Hiring decisions were notably influenced by a candidate s politics.
B) Hiring decisions were primarily made by politicians, rather than police officers.
C) Hiring decisions were made solely on the basis of a candidate s merit.
D) Hiring decisions were influenced by mentors charged with guiding candidates.
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Chapter 5: Police Sub-Culture
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Q1) In which of these locales do police officers perform daily tasks that involve interaction with ordinary citizens?
A) the stationhouse
B) the street environment
C) the courthouse
D) the prison
Q2) A group of officers who work the same shift may be called what?
A) a band or a company
B) a troop or a congregation
C) a section or a division
D) a platoon or a squad
Q3) Although secrecy and solidarity are both parts of police subculture, they are not involved in facilitating corruption.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Column 1: institutional value
Column 2: a sense of agreement within a particular culture about how to accomplish a valued objective
Q5) In police circles, putting on a display of high-mindedness is called .
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Chapter 6: Police Discretion and Behavior
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Q1) How is the argument about whether predisposition or socialization has the greatest effect on police behavior similar to and different from the argument about whether nature or nurture is responsible for people developing criminal behaviors?
Q2) Selling advertising space on police cruisers is an example of a chief s exercise of discretion.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Officer discretion in situations such as pursuit driving is limited for the purpose of preserving public safety and minimizing injuries to third parties.
Q4) Under what conditions would it be useful for an officer to apply the broken windows theory in decision making?
A) in any neighborhood in which shoplifting is a major problem
B) in any neighborhood with a majority of low socioeconomic status residents
C) in any neighborhood with a high crime rate
D) in any neighborhood with signs of physical and social disorder
Q5) Publicizing incidents of police abuse and corruption leads people to call for .
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Chapter 7: Core Police Functions
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Q1) How do most police officers spend the majority of their time?
A) answering non-emergency calls, controlling traffic, and writing tickets
B) working on long, involved, and dangerous undercover cases
C) building community relations and engaging in crime prevention
D) investigating crimes and apprehending offenders
Q2) Effective drug enforcement would be if solely uniformed officers performed it.
Q3) Column 1: identifying, collecting, and examining physical evidence
Column 2: fifth
Q4) Explain the overview of the broken windows model in terms of a domino effect.
Q5) Police officers dressed in riot gear during a high -profile public protest
A) make a riot more likely to happen.
B) create a sense of alarm and fear.
C) exemplify a reactive approach.
D) demonstrate a proactive step.
Q6) Column 1: continuing the investigation
Column 2: eighth
Q7) When an emergency occurs, it takes priority over all other police work until order is restored.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Community Policing and Community Involvement
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Q1) Civilianization is defined as a law enforcement agency s hiring of non -sworn personnel to replace or augment its corps of sworn officers.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Many police departments operate citizen police to help give citizens experience with police work.
Q3) In the definition of third-party policing, the persons are the guardians.
Q4) Which of the following is true of the definition of community policing?
A) It veers away from the belief that police alone can reduce crime.
B) It emphasizes that police alone reduce crime.
C) It emphasizes that random patrolling is necessary to help communities.
D) It veers away from the belief that random patrolling increases crime risk.
Q5) Which of the following would include paid, non-sworn personnel to augment sworn officers?
A) citizen patrol
B) citizen police academy
C) citizen policing
D) civilianization
Q6) Typically, citizen patrols are composed of who engage in preventive patrol.
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Chapter 9: Policing in the Modern ERA
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Q1) One change to police department procedures in response to terrorist threats is to increase guards in public events.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following elements of the Compstat Model would require operational commanders to identify and take action to correct problems within the command?
A) organizational flexibility
B) mission clarification
C) internal accountability
D) innovative problem-solving tactics
Q3) Column 1: CAD
Column 2: aids in crime scene availability to juries
Q4) Boundaryless policing refers to the efforts to share crime and terrorism related intelligence.
A)True
B)False
Q5) An intelligence-gathering unit created collaboratively to provide aid to various agencies is a center.
Q6) is a plan that called for a national center for intelligence -led policing.
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Chapter 10: Policing and the Law
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Q1) Which of the following parts of the Fourth Amendment would be used by a police officer to gather evidence in a criminal matter?
A) seizure
B) probable cause
C) search
D) justification
Q2) Searches are performed to figure out where a criminal is located.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Column 1: arm-span rule
Column 2: doctrine established that limits search of an area where the arrest was made
Q4) Probable cause is the standard for stop-and-frisk activities.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Column 1: reasonableness
Column 2: elements of a situation that justify a search or seizure
Q6) Search incident to arrest is the first type of permissible warrantless search.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Civil Liability and Accountability
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Q1) Promoting accountability is an important step in citizen oversight.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Column 1: public-duty doctrine
Column 2: protection owed to general public, not individuals
Q3) Which of the following would you seek if you wanted your neighbor to stop dumping hazardous materials in the stream behind your houses?
A) damages
B) injunctive relief
C) culpability
D) justification
Q4) In the citizen-oversight model, a citizen involved in the complaint process will create a more thorough and objective investigation.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The model that is similar to the ombudsman approach is the civilian model.
A)True
B)False
Q6) relief can be requested by plaintiffs, in addition to damages.
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Chapter 12: Deviance, Ethics, and Professionalism
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Q1) Your friend just bragged to you that his speeding ticket was lost by a friend who was a police officer. What is this an example of?
A) police crime
B) occupational deviance
C) police corruption
D) abuse of authority
Q2) If a police officer kills someone intentionally then police of authority are put into this single case.
Q3) An officer that accepts gifts and performs deviance is called a meat eater.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Based on research findings, which of the following would be one of the most popular reasons for police deviance?
A) improper training
B) psychopathology
C) peer influence
D) proactive citizen contact
Q5) officers try to keep their activities private.
Q6) Describe the typologies of police deviance proposed by scholars.
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Chapter 13: The Use of Force
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Q1) Physical grips on the suspect s body that are intended to direct the suspect when and where to move, not to cause pain, are known as grips.
Q2) Both the law and public opinion generally condemn the use of excessive force by police officers.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Since the U.S. Supreme Court s Miranda decision,
A) more suspects have confessed willingly.
B) police have more latitude in seeking a confession.
C) police have a more difficult time securing confessions.
D) police are not required to seek a confession.
Q4) Oleoresin capsicum is also known as A) pepper spray.
B) a Combined Tactical System (CTS).
C) a Conducted Energy Device (CED).
D) mace.
Q5) Techniques that seek a suspect s compliance by causing temporary pain without inflicting any lasting physical injury are called compliance techniques.
Q6) Changes came to the Los Angeles Police Department after the beating of .
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