Criminal Justice System Practice Exam
Course Introduction
This course provides a comprehensive overview of the criminal justice system, exploring its core components: law enforcement, the judiciary, and corrections. Students will examine how these institutions function individually and collectively to maintain social order, address crime, and deliver justice. The course covers the historical development of the criminal justice system, major theoretical perspectives, due process, and the roles of various professionals within the field. Special attention is given to current issues such as racial disparities, sentencing practices, and the balance between public safety and civil liberties. This foundational knowledge prepares students for more advanced studies and informed engagement with criminal justice policies and practices.
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Policing America Challenges and Best Practices 8th Edition by Ken J. Peak
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Chapter 1: History: From English Origins to the United States
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Q1) Today the police are in the era.
A) reform
B) political
C) community policing
D) urban reclamation
Answer: C
Q2) List and discuss two powerful trends in England and America that brought about changes in policing in both countries.
Answer: [key points to be made]
-Urbanization
-Industrialization
-Answers should explain how these trends contributed to social change,crime,and unrest,and made the old system of policing obsolete,leading to a need for a new system that could deal effectively with criminals,maintain order,and prevent crime.
Q3) Peel emphasized not only crime suppression but also crime ____________. Answer: prevention
Q4) The ____________ completed the first national study of crime and criminal justice.
Answer: Wickersham
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Chapter 2: Preparing for the Street: Recruitment, Training,
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Q1) Police ____________ tends to spike after recruits leave the academy and confront the reality of the streets.
Answer: cynicism
Q2) In the past,formal barriers such as height requirements were obstacles to the hiring of women.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The crime fighter image is key to understanding the American police today.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Each state has a Commission on Peace Officers Standards and Training (POST)or similar entity,which establishes all but which one of the following?
A) Minimum selection standards for law enforcement officers
B) Minimum education and training standards
C) In-house training programs
D) Serves as the certification or licensing authority for sworn personnel
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: On Patrol: Methods and Menaces
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Q1) Bayley and Bittner observed that,in a routine traffic stop where the driver may have been drinking,officers have:
A) no discretion to employ; an arrest is mandatory
B) as many as 770 different combinations of actions that might be taken
C) only three forms of discretion available-arrest, don't arrest, and issue a citation
D) None of the above
Answer: B
Q2) A police lieutenant has more discretionary authority than does the street officer.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Dispatchers often are the first people the public contacts when emergency assistance is required.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) _________ generally work in a centralized communications center.
Answer: Dispatchers
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Chapter 4: Community-Oriented Policing and Problem Solving
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Q1) The Young Ladies Awareness Group,started by officers in Tulsa,was a program designed to instruct young women in how to dress for job interviews and employment. A)True B)False
Q2) Problem-oriented policing was grounded on the same principles as COPP. A)True B)False
Q3) Officers in Tulsa organized a Boy Scout troop and established an Adopt a School program as part of the _________ phase of the SARA model.
Q4) Intelligence is produced through the analysis of information. A)True B)False
Q5) The CPTED principle of _________ uses elements such as doors,fences,and gates to deny access to a crime target.
Q6) After research found it was not effective,the _________ program is being revamped to include an emphasis on peer pressure.
Q7) During the _________ stage of the SARA process,officers evaluate the effectiveness of their responses.
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Chapter 5: Criminal Investigation: The Science of Sleuthing
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Q1) If an arrest cannot be made,a case cannot be considered cleared.
A)True
B)False
Q2) developed the first simple and reliable method of fingerprint classification.
A) Edward Henry
B) Bertillon
C) Thomas Byrnes
D) John DeRaenssler
Q3) A case that established the superiority of fingerprints,occurring at Leavenworth Penitentiary,involved:
A) Bill and Billy Fast.
B) Jonathan and Johnny South.
C) two correctional guards looking for drugs
D) Will and William West.
Q4) Forensic science is the examination,evaluation,and explanation of in law.
A) fingerprints
B) physical evidence
C) crimes
D) corpses
Q5) Explain how dogs are assisting police in the investigative function.
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Chapter 6: Personnel Issues and Practices: Stress, labor
Relations, higher Education, and Private Police
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Q1) The majority of complaints made against officers in a department are against officers in a _________ phase.
Q2) When officers believe their rights have been violated,they may file a ______________.
Q3) Unlike the public police,private security officers are not bound by the ____________ decision.
Q4) Which of the following is the preferred method for settling an officer's grievance?
A) A formal grievance process?
B) Collective bargaining
C) Job actions
D) Informal discussion
Q5) In the case of _______________,the Supreme Court placed state and local government employees under the coverage of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
A) Morell v. Department of Labor
B) Johnson v. Avery
C) U.S. v. Swanson
D) Garcia v. San Antonio Transit Authority
Q6) Explain the four types of job action and the possible effects each can have.
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Chapter 7: Rule of Law: Expounding the Constitution
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Q1) Under the ____________,the police can only control crime within the framework of the Bill of Rights.
Q2) The Supreme Court has ruled that the ?????______________ warning does not need to be given verbatim.
Q3) Which type of search and seizure may not be conducted without a warrant?
A) The seizure of evidence that is in "plain view"
B) A search when consent is given
C) A full search of a house after the occupant has been arrested
D) A stop and frisk search during a field interrogation
Q4) Gideon v.Wainwright mandated that all indigent persons charged with felonies in state courts be provided counsel.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain why it is better for an officer to effect an arrest with a warrant,rather than making a warrantless arrest.
Q6) In the case of In Re Winship,the Court held that the ___________ standard of proof was to be used in the juvenile courts.
Q7) Stand your ground laws expand the common law ____________ doctrine
Q8) The standard for a legal arrest is _____________.
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Chapter 8: Accountability: Ethics, use of Force, corruption, and Discipline
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Q1) African Americans are arrested more often than whites relative to their numbers in the population.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Packer's due process model emphasizes:
A) the repression of criminal conduct
B) police efficiency
C) eliminating errors
D) None of the above
Q3) _________ involves relieving an officer of duty,often without pay,for some set period of time.
Q4) Which of the following is not a legitimate responsive form of force recognized in the United States?
A) The right to apprehend fleeing felons
B) The authority of the police to use force as required
C) The right of self-defense
D) The power to control those for whom one is responsible
Q5) With respect to bias-based policing,the best defense for the police may be
Q6) Define ethics,including the two types of police ethics. Page 10
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Chapter 9: Civil Liability: Failing the Public Trust
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Q1) When responding to emergency situations,police have ____________ immunity for violations of traffic laws.
Q2) Under the doctrine of ____________ immunity,states cannot be sued in federal court.
Q3) Police officers enjoy qualified immunity if they violate a suspect's constitutional rights if that suspect was not yet officially in police custody.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Proximate cause is established by:
A) determining whether there was a special relationship creating a duty of care on the part of the officer
B) asking the suspect to write out a formal statement of his or her involvement in the crime
C) the level of supervision provided by the department to the officer
D) determining whether the individual's injury would have occurred without the officer's conduct
Q5) Explain the costs and benefits of lawsuits against the police.
Q6) Civil litigation is expensive in terms of both money and officer _________.
Q7) Define what is meant by a "frivolous" lawsuit.
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Chapter 10: Federal and State Agencies: Protecting Our
Borders
and Freedom
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Q1) State attorneys general offices do not have jurisdiction to investigate white-collar crimes or fraud against or by consumers.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is INTERPOL,and how does it function?
Q3) The National Academy in Quantico,which provides training to local police managers and supervisory-level police officers,is operated by:
A) the Department of Homeland Security
B) the National Crime Information Center
C) INTERPOL
D) the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Q4) Which state agency is the state equivalent of the FBI?
A) The state police
B) State highway patrol
C) State bureaus of investigation
D) State attorney general's offices
Q5) The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center only trains federal agents.
A)True
B)False
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11:
Municipal and County Agencies: Organization, administration, and Roles
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Q1) The method officers are expected to use when booking a suspect is an example of a(n)___________.
Q2) Which of the following is a trait of a bureaucracy?
A) Formal commands and regulation
B) No hierarchical structure or division of labor
C) There is no clear chain of command
D) None of the above
Q3) Of the ten tasks of sergeants,which of the following is the most important?
A) Preparing budgets
B) Answering back-up calls
C) Listening to problems of officers
D) Supervising subordinate officers in the performance of their duties
Q4) Accreditation of a police agency is a simple and fairly inexpensive process.
A)True
B)False
Q5) A formal organizational chart for a police agency does not:
A) designate how the individuals within perform their jobs
B) specify unity of command
C) apportion workload among members and units
D) establish lines of authority and responsibility
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Chapter 12: Pursuing Criminal Syndicates: Terrorists,
drug Traffickers, and the MOB
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Q1) A focused deterrence strategy to deal with gang problems frequently requires the collaboration of several criminal justice agencies.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The ____________ Act allows the CIA to continue its program for questioning key terrorist leaders and operatives.
Q3) Which of the following statements about gangs is true?
A) Gangs frequently migrate across the country to set up satellite operations.
B) The increasing number of older gang members is a serious problem today.
C) The more structured the gang, the more dangerous it tends to be.
D) Gangs today tend to follow a basic model, resulting in considerable homogeneity among them.
Q4) The key element of the LCN code of honor is _________.
Q5) Which of the following is not one of the major policy areas of the federal Office of National Drug Control Policy?
A) Drug education programming
B) Domestic law enforcement
C) Interdiction and international counterdrug support
D) Substance abuse treatment
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Chapter 13: Addressing People Problems: Immigrants, youth
Crimes, hate Crimes, the Mentally Ill, and Homeless
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Q1) The election of President __________ has been linked to a rise in the number of right-wing extremist groups in the United States.
Q2) According to the FBI,the most common motivation for hate crimes in the United States is __________ bias.
A) sexual orientation
B) racial
C) ethnicity/national origin
D) religious
Q3) The incarceration rate of juveniles in the United States is second only to that of:
A) South Africa
B) Iran
C) China
D) Russia
Q4) Since 2007,the number of immigrants entering the United States illegally has ___________.
Q5) The Memphis Crisis Intervention Team program was created to handle ________ crisis events.
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Q6) How could community policing tactics be applied to the problem of hate crimes?
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Chapter 14: Technology Review: Uses the Good, concerns the Bad, and Legislation
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Q1) Explain computerized crime mapping and how it can be used by law enforcement.
Q2) Hactivism involves cyberhacking for profit.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The exfiltration stage of the kill chain involves:
A) reading company websites and identifying social network participation of likely targets
B) downloading tools and moving laterally from the target network to other hosts
C) compromising the host machine and installing malware
D) weaponizing an attack payload and delivering it to the target
Q4) Research suggests that TASERS may pose a serious risk of inducing a heart attack.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Augmented reality may provide police with the ability to force criminals to describe their crimes in real-time terms.
A)True
B)False
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Q6) The IACP recommends police secure a(n)___________ before launching drones for investigative purposes.