Criminal Justice Practice Exam
Course Introduction
Criminal Justice explores the institutions, processes, and practices that define the American criminal justice system, including law enforcement, the courts, and corrections. The course examines the development of the criminal justice system, its role in society, and the interplay of crime, law, and justice within a democratic framework. Students will analyze theories of crime and punishment, investigate the impact of policing strategies, and evaluate reforms and contemporary challenges such as social equity, civil rights, and technological advancements. By blending foundational concepts with case studies and current events, the course equips students with a critical understanding of how justice is administered and the factors influencing policy and practice.
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Trusted Criminals White Collar Crime In Contemporary Society 4th Edition by
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David O. Friedrichs
Chapter 1: The Discovery of White Collar Crime
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Q1) A cartoonist who would not be included on a list of prominent political cartoonists is:
A) Thomas Nast
B) Charles Schultz
C) Herblock
D) G. B. Trudeau
Answer: B
Q2) The nature of much white collar crime lends itself better to newspaper than to TV reporting.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) In June 2005, "Deep Throat," the celebrated whistle-blower in the Watergate Affair, was identified as:
A) a high-ranking former FBI official
B) the former mayor of Washington, DC
C) a retired private investigator
D) the former head of the CIA
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Studying White Collar Crime and Assessing Its Cost
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Q1) The methodology that provides a concrete, rich understanding of the dynamics and realities of a particular white collar crime case is the:
A) experiment
B) survey
C) case study
D) analysis of official data
Answer: C
Q2) Federal crime statistics provide us the percentage of the whole class of white collar offenders arrested relative to the percentage of conventional property offenders arrested.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Victims of major frauds by organizations may endure significant financial losses, but are unlikely to suffer emotional or psychological trauma.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Corporate Crime
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Q1) The author of Unsafe at Any Speed, the landmark 1965 critique of automobile industry safety standards, was:
A) Alfred P. Sloan
B) Ralph Nader
C) John Z. DeLorean
D) Russell Mokhiber
Answer: B
Q2) Universities and colleges have been legally immune from price fixing charges in connection with financial aid offers to students.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The domination of a market by several large corporations is known as a(n):
A) monopoly
B) oligopoly
C) conglomerate
D) transnational
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Occupational Crime and Avocational Crime
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Q1) Susanne Karstedt and Stephen Farrall make the point that politicians promote tough criminal justice policies on behalf of a "law abiding majority," many of whose members never violate any laws.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Mars' study identified _____ as an especially important factor in work-related theft.
A) the size of the business
B) the wealth of the company
C) workgroup norms
D) the social background of employees
Q3) A 1987 replication of the famous 1941 Reader's Digest survey of auto repair shops found that repair fraud had significantly decreased.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Those actually charged and convicted of white collar crimes are disproportionately ordinary members of the middle class.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Governmental Crime: State Crime and Political
White Collar Crime
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Q1) According to the text, most war crimes go unpunished.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The key aspect of the notion of a repressive state is the systematic deprivation of fundamental human rights.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The notion of a "nuclear winter" refers to:
A) the environmental impact of an exchange of nuclear weapons
B) a period of maximum vulnerability to a nuclear war
C) the protective elements of winter, in the event of nuclear war
D) the occasion of a major nuclear disarmament treaty
Q4) The "White House Plumbers Unit" were:
A) a citizens group which investigated White House Crimes
B) White House maintenance personnel who made fraudulent repairs
C) a group of White House-based operatives who engaged in illegal investigations
D) a White House-appointed committee which probed state corruption
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Chapter 6: State-Corporate Crime, Crimes of Globalization, and Finance Crime
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Q1) Only a relatively few harsh prison sentences were imposed on S & L fraudsters.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to the text, banks have unethically and illegally deprived customers of far more money than bank robbers and embezzlers have stolen from banks.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following could the principal insider traders of the 1980s not be said to have in common?
A) They were all greedy
B) They all worked in concert with others
C) They all came from privileged and wealthy backgrounds
D) They all ended up pleading guilty to charges
Q4) People in developing countries may be especially vulnerable to globalized forms of white collar crime.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Enterprise Crime, Contrepreneurial Crime, and Technocrime
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Q1) Which of the following is the most exhaustive list of computer crime?
A) Internal computer crimes, telecommunications crimes, computer manipulations crimes, computers in support of criminal enterprises, hardware thefts, and Software thefts
B) Internal computer crimes, telecommunications crimes, computer manipulations crimes, computers in support of criminal enterprises, and hardware thefts
C) Telecommunications crimes, computer manipulations crimes, computers in support of criminal enterprises, hardware thefts, and software thefts
D) Internal computer crimes, telecommunications crimes, computer manipulations crimes, hardware thefts, and software thefts
Q2) The question of whether professional crime is in decline can be answered very easily.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The cosmetics industry is especially well-represented among pyramid schemes.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Explaining White Collar Crime: Theories and Accounts
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Q1) Which of the following statements about the influence of biogenetic factors on white collar crime is true?
A) White collar offenders tend to have a different biogenetic make-up than non-offenders from the same social class
B) White collar offenders typically do not "look like criminals" and so may be less likely to have criminality imputed to them
C) Lombroso's notion of "born criminals" can be correlated with white collar criminals
D) Biogenetic conditions such a schizophrenia, clinical depression and alcoholism have been shown to be major factors in white collar criminality
Q2) The large-scale financial crimes of the 1980s have been linked with the "structural embeddedness" of financial organizations and corporations in networks largely beyond traditional forms of social control.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Law and the Social Control of White Collar Crime
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Q1) Which of the following acts called for increased oversight duties for corporate fraud, and required corporate executives to personally certify corporate financial statements?
A) The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
B) The Sherman Act of 1890
C) The Robinson-Patman Act of 1936
D) The Responses, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980
Q2) The doctrine of holding corporations criminally responsible did not develop in countries predominantly governed by civil law.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What are the essential differences and similarities between civil and criminal law in relation to white collar crime? What have the principal trends been in the civil and criminal law responses to such crime? Which of them is it more appropriate to rely upon in dealing with white collar crime? Explain your position fully.
Q4) The concept of social control was first introduced by Edwin Sutherland.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Policing and Regulating White Collar Crime
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Q1) A major limitation on the Inspectors General's ability to root out internal government corruption is the fact that they remain external to the department they are investigating.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following has not functioned to discourage substantial police involvement with white collar crime?
A) The determination by the police that far less harm results from white collar crime.
B) The fact that media images of white collar crime create less public outrage than media images of conventional violent crime
C) The traditional difficulty encountered by police in distinguishing between legal and illegal business practices
D) Less public and political pressure to deal with white collar crime
Q3) State and federal law enforcement agencies play a comparable role in the investigation of white collar crime cases.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Prosecuting, Defending, and Adjudicating White Collar Crime
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Q1) According to the text, which of the following does not contribute to the relatively low level of attention paid to white collar crime by local prosecutors?
A) The fact that they do not typically regard such crime as especially serious
B) The fact that such cases require a very large expenditure of time and resources
C) The rationalizion that such cases are primarily the responsibility of various state or federal agencies
D) A concern about antagonizing local consumers and workers
Q2) Which of the following is true with regard to fines imposed upon organizational offenders?
A) They typically bankrupt the organization
B) They most commonly are several times the cost of the harm involved
C) The multiple relative to the amount of harm is greatest for firms causing the most harm
D) In many cases the fine is evaded, or has no substantial impact on the operation of the corporation
Q3) The prosecution of antitrust cases has been highly selective.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Responding to the Challenge of White Collar Crime
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Q1) In one view, white collar crime principally reflects the overreach of the regulatory state.
A)True
B)False
Q2) White collar offenders are generally regarded as well-positioned to make restitution to victims.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The original purpose of organizational probation was to insure that the corporation in question remained in compliance with the laws and followed through on orders to pay fines and restitution.
A)True
B)False
Q4) According to the text, any rehabilitation of white collar offenders is likely to take place outside of correctional insitutions.
A)True
B)False
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