Introduction to Criminal Justice Question Bank
Course Introduction
Introduction to Criminal Justice provides students with a comprehensive overview of the American criminal justice system, examining its three core components: law enforcement, the courts, and corrections. The course explores the historical foundations and contemporary issues facing each sector, highlighting the roles and responsibilities of key stakeholders, including police officers, judges, attorneys, and correctional personnel. Through analysis of crime theories, criminal procedures, and public policy, students gain an understanding of how justice is administered, the functioning of the juvenile justice process, and challenges related to ethics, diversity, and reform within the system.
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Introduction to Criminal Justice 4th Edition by
Robert M. Bohm
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Chapter 1: Crime and Justice in the United States
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Q1) What the media present,for the most part,misleads the American public about the nature of crime.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) About ____ of criminal defendants plead guilty to the charges against them,in an arrangement called plea bargaining.
A) 90 percent
B) 50 percent
C) 5 percent
D) 40 percent
Answer: A
Q3) In the <b>due process model</b>,the factual guilt of suspects is not determined until the suspects have had a full opportunity to discredit the charges against them.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Crime and Its Consequences
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Q1) According to a NIJ study of the costs of crime,which included long-term costs as well as the intangible costs of pain,suffering,and reduced quality of life,what is the annual cost of crime?
A) $4.5 billion
B) $45 billion
C) $450 billion
D) $4.5 trillion
Answer: C
Q2) To date,most self-report crime surveys conducted in the United States have been administered to:
A) defendants.
B) school children.
C) victims of violent crimes.
D) victims of hate crimes.
Answer: B
Q3) Northeastern people and households
A)More likely to be a victim of violent crime
B)Less likely to be a victim of violent crime
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Explaining Crime
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Q1) There are at least three policy implications of Seymour Halleck's humanistic psychological theory.All are listed below.Which of the following is NOT one of the three policy implications listed in your textbook?
A) Sources of social oppression should be eliminated wherever possible.
B) Psychotherapy should be provided for subjective oppressions.
C) Psychoactive drugs should be provided as part of the psychotherapy process.
D) Alternative, legal ways of coping with oppression should be provided.
Answer: C
Q2) Cesare Beccaria recommended six ways to prevent crime.Three are listed below.Which one does NOT belong?
A) Educate the public.
B) Determine the physiological causes of crime.
C) Enact laws that are clear, simple, and unbiased, and that reflect the consensus of the population.
D) Eliminate corruption from the administration of justice.
Answer: B
Q3) Name the three body types discussed in Sheldon's theory.
Answer: The three body types are the endomorphic (soft,fat),the mesomorphic (athletically built),and the ectomorphic (tall,skinny).
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Chapter 4: The Rule of Law
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Q1) Which of the following penal sanctions is intended to control future conduct in the best interests of the entire community?
A) compensation
B) restitution
C) regulation
D) treatment
Q2) Mere suspicion is equivalent to a "gut feeling."
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is NOT a provision of the USA PATRIOT Act?
A) the FBI is allowed to search private records without a warrant and probable cause and without having to reveal to anyone what it has done
B) the FBI no longer needs probable cause to conduct some types of wiretaps of criminal suspects
C) it creates the new crime of "domestic terrorism"
D) it prohibits the government from initiating surveillance or prosecution of U.S. citizens who only provide lodging to "terrorists"
Q4) Name the five ideal features of good criminal laws.
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Chapter 5: History and Structure of American Law
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Q1) The United States has more police departments than any other nation in the world.
A)True
B)False
Q2) With which of the following agencies are permanent legal attaches or "legats" associated?
A) the CIA
B) the FBI
C) the U.S. Secret Service
D) the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Q3) Three of the following statements describe how politics affects the role of sheriff in most counties.Which one does NOT belong?
A) The authority to appoint special deputies and to award patronage jobs contribute to the sheriff's power and influence in a county.
B) The sheriff's office is limited to counties that vote to approve it.
C) Local politics governs the operation of the sheriff's department.
D) The sheriff must operate as a partisan politician to remain in office.
Q4) Briefly explain what the acronym PEPPAS stands for.
Q5) Your textbook lists Peel's Principles of Policing.Name 5 of these 12 principles.
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Chapter 6: Police Work
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Q1) Most commonly found in economically poorer communities
A)Legalistic
B)Watchman
C)Service
Q2) William Muir named four styles of policing in your textbook.Name these four styles,and define them by their relation to passion and perspective.
Q3) Patrols that are "systematically unsystematic" and observant in an attempt to both deter and ferret out crime on their beats are known as random or ____ patrol.
A) foot
B) directed
C) preventive
D) aggressive
Q4) Your textbook lists nine critical functions of investigators.Name five of these.
Q5) In some agencies,special <b>traffic accident investigation crews </b>are assigned to all parking violation enforcement.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Name and define James Q.Wilson's three operational styles of policing.
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Chapter 7: Policing America: Issues and Ethics
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Q1) In cases involving lesser felonies,misdemeanors,and petty offenses,police officers are more likely to:
A) formally report the crime.
B) informally handle the crime.
C) do nothing.
D) make a physical arrest.
Q2) According to available research on the subject,which of the following factors does NOT influence the exercise of discretion on the part of police patrol officers?
A) nature of the crime
B) departmental policies
C) amount of evidence
D) personal characteristics of officers
Q3) The practice of relying on the judgment of the police leadership and rank-and-file officers to decide which laws to enforce is referred to as:
A) limited discretion.
B) selective enforcement.
C) high discretion.
D) full enforcement.
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Chapter 8: The Administration of Justice
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Q1) The removal or restriction of the freedom of those found to have violated criminal laws
A)Indeterminate sentence
B)Determinate sentence
C)Flat-time sentencing
D)Mandatory sentencing
E)Presumptive sentencing
Q2) According to your text,one problem with restitution is that most offenders:
A) consider restitution to be inflammatory and refuse to participate in providing it.
B) provide restitution, but usually the wrong kind.
C) arrange for others to assume the burdens of restitution for them.
D) have neither the financial means nor the abilities to provide adequate restitution.
Q3) How many states have laws that protect the basic rights of crime victims in the criminal justice system?
A) 0
B) 4
C) 26
D) 50
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Chapter 9: Sentencing, Appeals, and the Death Penalty
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Q1) Which of the following reasons was selected by half of all respondents who favored the death penalty in a recent Gallup poll?
A) "an eye for an eye"/convicted deserve to be executed
B) save taxpayers money/cost associated with prison
C) deterrence
D) arbitrary and discriminatory application
Q2) In 1977,the Supreme Court held that rape of an adult female and kidnapping where the victim was not killed do not warrant the death penalty.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Judges almost always impose the sentence agreed upon during plea negotiations because if they did not,plea bargaining would not work.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Defendants are entitled to present new evidence or testimony on appeal if that evidence or testimony could have been (but was not)presented at trial.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Institutional Corrections
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Q1) In recent years,incarceration rates for females in the United States have ____ incarceration rates for males.
A) grown as fast as
B) grown slower than C) grown faster than D) not grown in comparison to
Q2) In which of the following types of jails do correctional officers constantly supervise inmates from secure control booths that overlook inmate living areas?
A) first-generation jails
B) second-generation jails
C) third-generation jails
D) fourth-generation jails
Q3) What are the three types of institutions that dominated 20th-century corrections,according to John Irwin?
Q4) Define and compare the differences between the <b>Pennsylvania system</b> and the<b> Auburn system</b>.
Q5) Some of the interrelated reasons for those problems are:
Q6) Define supermaximum,maximum,medium,and minimum prison security levels.
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Chapter 11: Prison Life, Inmate Rights, and Release
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Q1) The results of research on recidivism indicate that the factor most strongly related to the likelihood of rearrest was:
A) socioeconomic class.
B) educational achievement.
C) prior arrest history.
D) family life and living conditions.
Q2) Free speech
A)First Amendment
B)Eighth Amendment
C)Fourteenth Amendment
Q3) Totality of prison conditions
A)First Amendment
B)Eighth Amendment
C)Fourteenth Amendment
Q4) Medical care
A)First Amendment
B)Eighth Amendment
C)Fourteenth Amendment
Q5) Explain the four typical ways in which inmates may be released from prison.
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Chapter 12: Community Corrections
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Q1) Revocation can be recommended for two general categories of violations: the commission of new offenses and<b> technical violations</b>.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In ____,offenders are released from prison directly into the community under the supervision of the parole agency.
A) residential parole
B) split-sentence probation
C) suspended-sentence probation
D) straight parole
Q3) The staff of community correctional programs has two potentially competing roles: law enforcement and helping offenders identify and address their problems and needs.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Define four of the five types of intermediate sanctions discussed in your textbook.
Q5) Name the four fundamental objectives of parole.
Q6) Name the five types of probation.
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Chapter 13: Juvenile Justice
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a segment of the Intensive Aftercare Program (IAP)?
A) pre-release and preparatory planning during incarceration
B) structured transition that requires the participation of institutional and aftercare staff prior to and following community re-entry
C) long-term, reintegrative activities that ensure adequate service delivery and the necessary level of social control
D) all of the choices are segments
Q2) Involves the provision of services to assist youths in successfully making the transition from juvenile institutions to life back in the community
A)Probation
B)Intensive-supervision probation
C)Restitution
D)Wilderness probation (outdoor adventure) programs
E)Day treatment programs
F)Foster homes
G)Group homes
H)Aftercare programs
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Chapter 14: Understanding and Predicting the Future of Criminal Justice
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Q1) The United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime,which was signed by the United States and 123 other countries in 2000,was the first international instrument against this type of crime.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Advocates of the crime control model consider ____ at any stage,other than perhaps at trial,a luxury and an unnecessary impediment to the efficient operation of the process.
A) DNA technology
B) victims' rights
C) legal representation
D) the adversarial system
Q3) Currently,transnational organized crime is mainly addressed at the international level,when it is dealt with at all.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Your text names three possible ways in which future American criminal courts may be forced to adapt their routines and personnel to those changing demographics.Name these.