Introduction to Law Enforcement Exam Solutions
Course Introduction
Introduction to Law Enforcement provides students with a foundational overview of the principles, history, and operations of law enforcement agencies in the United States. The course explores the roles and responsibilities of police officers, the organizational structure of law enforcement bodies at local, state, and federal levels, and the legal and ethical issues they face. Topics include the evolution of policing, community policing strategies, criminal law basics, use of force, and the relationship between law enforcement and the communities they serve. Students will also examine current challenges in the field, such as technology, diversity, and reform, to gain a broad understanding of law enforcements role in society.
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Juvenile Justice The Essentials 1st Edition by Richard A. Lawrence
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Chapter 1: Defining and Measuring Juvenile Dleinquency
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Q1) What is the leading cause of death for children between the ages of 5 to 19?
A) Accidental Injuries
B) Unintentional Injury
C) Congenital anomalies
D) Homicide
Answer: B
Q2) The FBI publishes an annual report on what?
A) Crime in the United States
B) The National Victimization Survey
C) National Crime Analysis
D) Statistical Report on Crime
Answer: A
Q3) Criminologists and lawmakers have focused their efforts on examining causes of juvenile crime to prevent delinquency and correct juvenile offenders.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: The History of Juvenile Justice
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Q1) The movement away from rehabilitation and treatment and toward retribution and just deserts has occurred _____.
A) only in the criminal justice system
B) only in the juvenile justice system
C) simultaneously in both the criminal and juvenile justice systems
D) it hasn't occurred in either system
Answer: C
Q2) By ____ every state had a juvenile court.
A) 1950
B) 1945
C) 1940
D) 1930
Answer: B
Q3) Parens patriae became the basis for the American juvenile court
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Causes of Delinquency: Rational Choice and Individual
Explanations
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Q1) Biochemical explanations of delinquency focus solely on the influence illegal drugs have on behavior.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Criminological theories are based on research studies that support or question their accuracy.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) What are William Sheldon's three human physique types?
A) Endomorphy, ectomorphy, mesomorphy
B) Endomorph, tendomorph, ectomorph
C) Small, medium, large
D) Thin, gangly, ectomorph
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Sociological Explanations of Delinquency
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Q1) Lemert differentiated between ________ ________ and _______ __________by respectively referring to behavior of the individual and the other referring to society's response.
A) Primary deviance; secondary deviance
B) First deviance; first correction
C) Internal motivation; societal motivation
D) Juvenile psychology; criminal psychology
Q2) "Social reaction theories" focus more on how society, social institutions, and government officials react to crime than on why offenders commit crime.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Sociology is a discipline that studies:
A) Group behavior and how social factors influence individuals
B) Descriptions of social groups
C) Social Problem
D) All of the above
Q4) Describe the "control theory" of delinquency. What is the role of parents, peers, and school experiences in explaining delinquency?
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Chapter 5: Correlates and Causes of Delinquency
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Q1) List the characteristics/purpose of the three types of gangs identified by(Huff).
Q2) The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency PreventionOJJDP) has funded which programs of research on the causes and correlates of delinquency?
A) Denver Youth Survey
B) Pittsburg Youth Study
C) Rochester Youth Development Study in New York
D) All of the above
Q3) The formation of gangs is an extension of adolescent peer groups.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are the most important factors associated with students dropping out of school?
A) Race, ethnicity, and gender
B) Family, parents, and peers
C) Economic factors and individual factors
D) All of the above
Q5) What are some of the signs that "parental" disengagement exists in a family?
Q6) What are characteristics or "risk factors" associated with gang membership?
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Chapter 6: Police and Juvenile Offenders
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Q1) African American youth are _____in juvenile arrests when compared to their proportion of the population.
A) Underrepresented
B) Proportionately represented
C) Overrepresented
D) Equal
Q2) The reasons for juveniles' negative attitudes toward police are likely the inevitable result of police officers' fair but unpopular restrictions on young peoples' behaviors.
A)True
B)False
Q3) When are juveniles detained in a detention facility?
A) When they are considered dangerous
B) When there is a lack of parental supervision
C) When there is a high probability that they will not report to court
D) All of the above
Q4) Summarize the arguments given for re-evaluating the negative attitude toward the service function of police.
Q5) Why is the order maintenance function of police less clear than the law enforcement function?
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Chapter 7: Due Process and Juveniles Rights
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Q1) Which U.S. Supreme Court case is significant because it was the first Supreme Court case to "modify" the longstanding belief that juveniles did not require the same due process as adults?
A) In re Gault
B) Fare v. Michael C.
C) Kent v. U.S.
D) Breed v. Jones
Q2) Under law two elements necessary to find a person guilty of a crime are "criminal intent" and a "criminal act."
A)True
B)False
Q3) In which U.S. Supreme Court case did the Court rule the standard of evidence for adjudication of delinquency should be "proof beyond a reasonable doubt?"
A) In re Winship
B) In re Gault
C) McKiever v. Pennsylvania
D) Breed v. Jones
Q4) What is "procedural due process?" What are the three components that make up procedural due process?
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Chapter 8: Juvenile Detention and Court Intake
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Q1) When police arrest a juvenile, the intake officer has no choice but to refer the juvenile to court.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to the Juvenile Residential Facility Census in 2002, ___ percent of juveniles were held in facilities operating at or above their standard bed capacity.
A) 50
B) 43
C) 34
D) 27
Q3) A nationwide survey found that correction agencies in very few states have some form of juvenile needs assessment.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is the intake decision based on in juvenile courts today? What had it traditionally been based on?
Q5) Other than referring a juvenile to court, what options does an intake officer have?
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Chapter 9: Transfer to Criminal Court
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Q1) All states and the District of Columbia have laws that provide for criminal court prosecution of juveniles under certain circumstances.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In considering a juvenile's petition for juvenile court jurisdiction, the criminal court must consider different criteria than is used by juvenile courts in transferring juveniles to criminal court.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which type of waiver makes waiver mandatory in cases that meet certain age, offenses, or other criteria?
A) Concurrent jurisdiction
B) Mandatory waiver
C) Presumptive waiver
D) Direct file
Q4) Explain reasons for the decline in the number of juvenile cases transferred to criminal court.
Q5) Explain the criticisms of prosecutorial waiver.
Q6) Explain the difference between mandatory waiver and statutory exclusion.
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Chapter 10: The Juvenile Court Process
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Q1) Feld argues that a more formal criminal court hearing would "not" assure that juvenile offenders receive the same due process safeguards and constitutional rights as adults in criminal court.
A)True
B)False
Q2) ______ is an attorney appointed to advocate for and protect the child's best interests.
A) Defense counsel
B) Intake probation officer
C) Guardian ad litem
D) Public defender
Q3) In 2005, U.S. juvenile courts processed an estimated _______ delinquency cases that involved juveniles charged with criminal law violations.
A) 1 million
B) 500 thousand
C) 1.7 million
D) 2.5 million
Q4) Describe why and how the role of each of the juvenile court officials has changed since the beginning of the juvenile justice system.
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Chapter 11: Juvenile Corrections: Institutional and Residental
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Q1) Many training schools do have some good programs, which include?
A) Medical and dental care
B) An accredited school and vocational training
C) Recreation and treatment programs.
D) All of the Above
Q2) Several states have developed wilderness camps as alternatives to placement in a correctional facility
A)True
B)False
Q3) While assessment of program effectiveness is important, corrections researchers acknowledge that recidivism remains the most common measure of effectiveness.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The number of delinquent offenders in residential facilities __________ from 2000 to 2002.
A) Increased
B) Decreased
C) Stabilized
D) None of the Above
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Chapter 12: Juvenile Pobation and Community Corrections
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Q1) Discuss the responsibilities of probation officers.
Q2) Why do juvenile probation officers face a special challenge in supervising delinquents?
A) Because their caseload bogs them down, and they cannot pay attention to the specialized needs of juveniles.
B) Because they do not have enough funding or time.
C) Because they often do not receive assistance and support from the parents.
D) All of the Above.
Q3) What is<b> not </b>an advantage of probation that community corrections experts have counted criticism with?
A) Reintegration of offenders in the community while under court orders and supervision.
B) Furthering the Goals of Justice and protecting the community from further delinquent behavior.
C) Monitoring probation conditions and providing services to help change offenders and meet probation objectives.
D) All of the Above
Q4) Discuss the four components of juvenile probation and their implications.
Q5) List, discuss, and compare and contrast the different intermediate sanctions.
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Chapter 13: Restorative Justice
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Q1) Throughout the restorative justice literature, there are hypothetical references to what must happen for restorative practices to be effectively implemented.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Juvenile probation departments throughout the United States, Canada, and other countries have taken what approach to probation supervision?
A) "Balanced Approach"
B) "Dynamic Approach"
C) "Competency Development Approach"
D) None of the Above
Q3) Proponents of restorative justice acknowledge that it does not offer complete solutions to all of the complex issues facing juvenile justice policymakers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The restorative justice process requires the offender to make things right for the community and the victim.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: The Future of Juvenile Justice
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Q1) Research evidence based on a wealth of criminological research shows that the causes' and explanations of delinquent behavior have virtually _________ in the past 50 years.
A) Decreased
B) Increased
C) Unchanged
D) Changed
Q2) From 1985 to 1989 the average daily population and total census count of juveniles in public facilities increased by what percent?
A) 12%
B) 13%
C) 14%
D) 15%
Q3) Discuss the many social factors that have an impact on juvenile justice.
Q4) The "juvenile crime waive" was during what decade interval?
A) 1954 to 1964
B) 1964 to 1974
C) 1974 to 1984
D) 1984 to 1994
Q5) Summarize the public health approach.
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