Transnational Crime and Justice Practice Questions
Course Introduction
Transnational Crime and Justice examines the nature, causes, and consequences of crimes that transcend national borders, including human trafficking, drug trafficking, cybercrime, terrorism, and organized crime syndicates. The course explores the legal, political, and social responses to these global challenges, focusing on the roles of international organizations, cooperation among law enforcement agencies, and the development of international legal frameworks such as treaties and conventions. Students will critically analyze case studies to understand the complexities of prosecuting and preventing transnational crimes, as well as the impact on international justice and human rights.
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Comparative Criminal Justice Systems 5th Edition by Harry R. Dammer
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) Comparative Criminal Justice investigates and evaluates a national system of justice in terms of other countries, cultures, or institutions.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The term used to describe the study of the causes and correlates of crime in two or more cultures is:
A)Comparative Criminal Justice
B)Comparative Criminology
C)Transnational Criminal Justice
D)Criminal Justice System
Answer: B
Q3) Saudi Arabia adheres to the ___________ law tradition.
Answer: Sacred
Q4) ______________________ have been coined as "crimes against the peace and security of mankind."
Answer: International Crimes
Q5) Critical thinking involves ______________ mental activity.
Answer: Purposeful
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Chapter 2: Measuring and Comparing
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Q1) When looking at the 10 crimes surveyed by the ICVS, in comparison to the model countries the United States has:
A)Highest overall crime rates
B)Lowest overall crime rates
C)Not the highest or lowest overall crime rates
D)Highest rates in some categories
Answer: A
Q2) The best available sources of international crime data are:
A)Self-Report Surveys
B)Interpol Data
C)International Victimization Surveys
D)National Crime Victimization Surveys
Answer: C
Q3) The best available sources of _____________________ are international victimization surveys.
Answer: international crime data
Q4) China regularly reports high rates of crime each year.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Families of Law
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Q1) Law that is developed by modern states in their legislatures or through their regulatory process that deals largely with the relations between government and citizens is:
A)Private Law
B)Civil Law
C)Public Law
D)Criminal Law
Answer: C
Q2) Both the French and the German codes have been enormously influential in the development of law over the past two centuries.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The primary characteristic of Common Law that distinguishes it from Civil Law is:
A)The scope of subject matter
B)The complexity of application
C)Its influence on legal education
D)Its reliance on precedent
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Six Model Nations
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Q1) The goal of Communist law is to promote economic classes and destroy a social order based on the rule of people rather than the rule of law.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Identify difficulties in comparing crime statistics for Saudi Arabia with those of other countries.
Q3) The two major issues of concern related to crime in Saudi Arabia are terrorism and human trafficking.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A ___________ is a person who is the sole and absolute ruler of a country, such as a king, queen or emperor.
Q5) Within each of the six model nations, which particular historical developments may have had a major effect on their formation of criminal law and criminal justice administration? Pick two of the model countries and discuss these historical developments in depth.
Q6) The two nations that do not have a formal written constitution are _____________ and____________________.
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Chapter 5: Law Enforcement: Functions, Organization and
Current
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Q1) In Japan, the __________ is a police post located in an urban neighborhood and in large cities one may be found every few blocks.
Q2) The fastest growing sector of policing in the world today is private policing.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Police officers act ____________, when in exercising or failing to exercise their authority, they act with the primary intention of furthering private or departmental advantage.
Q4) In Germany, the Kripo are the equivalent to municipal police and would be the first to arrive on the scene of a crime.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The two police organizations in France are the_________________, responsible for Paris and urban areas, and the_________________, responsible for rural areas and communities of less than 10,000 people.
Q6) In Japan, __________________________ handles all matters related to national security.It provides training, research, crime investigation, communications and public safety.
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Q7) In Japan, the rural police officer is known as ______________.
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Chapter 6: Criminal Procedure
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Q1) Which of the following is not an example of a popular (mixed) system?
A)Anglo American Jury trial system
B)Gacca courts in Rwanda
C)Mixed jury system in Japan
D)Chuzaisho in Japan
Q2) The __________________ system is a set of legal procedures used in Common Law countries to determine the truth during adjudication whereby the prosecution and defense counsel compete against each other while the judge ensures fairness and adherence to rules.
Q3) Give the definition of supranational courts and also discuss the three general forms of supranational courts.
Q4) Which of the following is not a part of the pretrial investigation in France?
A)A public investigation headed mostly by the judge
B)Calling of witnesses on both sides
C)Extensive gathering of facts and testimony
D)Careful questioning of the accused prior to a final decision to bring the case to trial
Q5) International Criminal Tribunals have been created in _______________ and __________________.
Q6) Discuss the distinctive aspects of Socialist Law procedure.
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Chapter 7: The Courts and Legal Professionals
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Q1) International ___________ are generally temporary bodies that are organized to judge persons for their behavior during a specific time for a specific event.
Q2) Japan has many quasi-lawyers, who perform the functions that in the United States would be performed by lawyers, such as doing legal research, advising on tax problems and dealing with inheritances.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Explain the three primary methods of how judges are employed.
Q4) The European Court of Human Rights allows individuals, groups of individuals, or nongovernmental organizations to bring complaints against a European state to a judicial body after they have been denied relief in their national courts.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Bureaucratically based systems are found in the countries that have:
A)Civil Law systems
B)Common Law systems
C)Sacred Law systems
D)Socialist Law systems
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Chapter 8: After Conviction: The Sentencing Process
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Q1) Of all the forms of supervising offenders in the community, house arrest is the most common.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The World Prison Population List provides the number of prisoners in 218 independent countries and territories as of May 2011.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In the United States, probation began with the innovative work of Cesare Beccaria, a Boston boot maker who was the first person to post bail for defendants under authority of the Boston Police Court.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Female prison populations around the world have grown by 16%, and this is said to be related to the international fight against HIV.
A)True
B)False
Q5) ___________________ expands the surveillance capacity of supervision.
Q6) What are the five purposes of criminal sanctions?
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Chapter 9: After Conviction: The Problem of Prison
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Q1) It is difficult to clearly understand the reasons for crowded prisons throughout the world because the problem is complicated by a combination of ____________________, ________________, and _________________ factors.
Q2) One of the hallmarks of the American ___________________ of the early twentieth century was the interest in a new approach to corrections: rehabilitation of the individual offender by specialists in corrections.
Q3) Which German legislation sets forth all of the principles and methods to be practiced in German correctional facilities.
A)The Prison Act of 1976
B)The Prison Act of 1776
C)The Post-Unification penal code of 1871
D)The Bavarian Code of 1813
Q4) Dutch courts were believed to be the first to regularly substitute imprisonment for corporal punishments.The term used to describe this sentence was_______________, which included all forms of incarceration.
Q5) __________________ is the single most pressing problem faced by prison systems across the world today.
Q6) List the seven kinds of formal social control mechanisms in China.
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Chapter 10: Terrorism
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Q1) ______________ was passed with the goal of broadening law enforcement agencies' authority to conduct surveillance on U.S.citizens and residents.
Q2) Jihad is an example of what type of terrorism?
A)Revolutionary
B)State-sponsored
C)Religious
D)Political
Q3) _______________ is a method of warfare used by one side in a conflict or war when it believes that it lacks the military power of the other and so must use strategy or tactics that differ from conventional warfare.
Q4) The kind of terrorism that is documented in the use of Jihad is ____________terrorism.
Q5) Al Qaida can be used as an example of new terrorism.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The annual report called Patterns of Global Terrorism was renamed as _________________________________.
Q7) Discuss in depth the various goals of terrorism.
Q8) Discuss two examples of foreign policy use as a way to help fight terrorism.
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Chapter 11: Transnational Organized Crime
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Q1) _________________ and ________________ often occurred transnationally using email contacts with prospective victims.
Q2) Which of the following countries has not been identified by the Trafficking in Persons Act as a Tier 3 country?
A)Congo
B)Israel
C)Yemen
D)Saudi Arabia
Q3) ______________________ is a continuing criminal enterprise that rationally works to profit from illicit actives that are often in great public demand.
Q4) Describe the three tiers that the U.S.State Department uses to evaluate the world human trafficking situation.Also indicate what types of sanctions Tier 3 countries may receive and give an example of a Tier 3 country.
Q5) Yakuza gangs in Japan engage primarily in extortion.
A)True
B)False
Q6) ______________ is defined as abuse of a position of power for illegitimate private gain.
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Chapter 12: Juvenile Justice in International Perspective
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Q1) Self-reports have been consistent in finding that most juveniles:
A)Will never commit any type of crime during their lifetime
B)Will engage in persistent or serious criminal behavior
C)Will break the law at one time or another
D)No self report findings are ever consistent
Q2) ______________ refers to a medieval doctrine stating that the English Crown was able to intervene in family matters if the parents were unable or unwilling to care for the welfare of a child.
Q3) Which of the juvenile justice adjudication initiatives involves achieving consensus regarding whether or not juvenile court records can be used after the youth reaches adulthood?
A)Specialized training for juvenile court judges
B)Specially trained police units for juveniles
C)Use of Juvenile Records
D)Parental Responsibility
Q4) If a criminal act is committed by someone under the legal age established by the government, the act is considered _______________.The same illegal act committed by someone who has reached this age threshold is considered a
Q5) Most juveniles are arrested for ____________ crimes.
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