Chapter 1 Crime And Criminal Justice Test Bank

Chapter 1: Crime and Criminal Justice

Test Bank

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 1

1) This is the violation of the laws of a society by a person or a group of people who are subject to the laws of that society.

a. Speeding

b. Plea bargaining

c. Crime

d. socialization

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 2

2) This kind of crime includes interpersonal violence and property crime.

a. Sensational crime

b. White-collar crime

c. Street crime

d. Organized crime

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 3

3) C. Wright Mills urges the use of this to examine issues while removed from our social location.

a. Plea bargain

b. Sociological imagination

c. Socialization

d. Uniform Crime Report

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 4

4) This consists of the rules, habits, and customs a society uses to enforce conformity to its norms.

a. Crime control model

b. Justice

c. Sociological imagination

d. Social control

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 5

5) This is the administration of a punishment or reward in accordance with morals that a given society considers correct.

a. Justice

b. Social control

c. Sentence

d. discretion

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 6

6) This is a state or federal institution that confines people convicted of crime who are serving sentences for longer than a year.

a. Jail

b. Prison

c. Institution

d. stockade

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 7

7) This social institution controls crime by detecting, detaining, adjudicating, and punishing and/or rehabilitating people who break the law.

a. Law

b. Criminal justice

c. Law enforcement

d. criminology

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 8

8) The suspension of all or part of a sentence subject to certain conditions and supervision in the community.

a. Parole

b. Probation

c. Jail

d. Retribution

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 9

9) To administer a legal process of judging and to pronounce a judgment.

a. Arrest

b. Adjudicate

c. Parole

d. probate

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 10

10) Four factors challenge the transition to greater cooperation among law enforcement agencies. Which is not one of these?

a. There is no formal, comprehensive concept of coordination for either routine or crisis situations.

b. There is no independent authority to develop and train personnel in interagency cooperation.

c. All individual agencies organize their policies and operations in exactly the same way.

d. Personnel policies focus on developing personnel who are primarily dedicated to the individual agency rather than the community of agencies.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 11

11) This criminal justice model describes the expectation of an efficient criminal justice system.

a. war-on-crime model

b. Crime control model

c. Justice model

d. Due process model

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 12

12) This criminal justice model describes the expectation of a just and fair criminal justice system.

a. Crime control model

b. Rehabilitative model

c. Retributive model

d. Due process model

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 13

13) According to the wedding-cake model of criminal justice, what does the top layer represent?

a. Celebrated cases

b. Serious felonies

c. Misdemeanors

d. Less-serious felonies

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 14

14) According to the wedding-cake model of criminal justice, what does the second layer represent?

a. Celebrated cases

b. Serious felonies

c. Misdemeanors

d. Less-serious felonies

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 15

15) According to the wedding-cake model of criminal justice, what does the bottom layer represent?

a. Celebrated cases

b. Serious felonies

c. Misdemeanors

d. Less-serious felonies

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 16

16) These offenses are punishable by more than a year in a state prison.

a. Capital crimes

b. Felonies

c. White-collar crimes

d. misdemeanors

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 17

17) In society, which of these dictate what is acceptable and what is punished?

a. Rules

b. Laws

c. Folkways

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 18

18) These offenses include drug use, disturbing the peace, drunkenness, prostitution, and some forms of gambling.

a. Public-order crime

b. Property crime

c. Violent crime

d. felonies

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 19

19) The taking or attempting to take anything of value from the care, custody, or control of a person or persons by force or threat of force or violence and/or by putting the victim in fear

a. Burglary

b. Robbery

c. Larceny-theft

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 20

20) This criminal offense is committed during the course of business for financial gain.

a. Street crime

b. Property crime

c. Organized crime

d. White-collar crime

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 21

21) Behaviors that are deemed undesirable because they offend community standards rather than directly harm people or property.

a. Property crime

b. Victimless crime

c. White-collar crime

d. misdemeanors

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 22

22) This minor criminal offense is punishable by a fine and/or jail time for up to one year.

a. Felony

b. Murder

c. Misdemeanor

d. rape

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 23

23) This is the murder of three or more people in a single incident.

a. Group murder

b. Larceny

c. Serial murder

d. Mass murder

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 24

24) This is the use or threat of violence against a state or other political entity in order to coerce.

a. Crime

b. War

c. Feudalism

d. Terrorism

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 25

25) Police officers, prosecutors, judges, and corrections officials use this to decide what to do with individual cases.

a. Statutes

b. Laws

c. Discretion

d. Warrants

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 26

26) Only a small percentage of offenses result in someone going to prison.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 27

27) Cases move through the criminal justice system in an inconsistent manner.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 3\28

28) The criminal justice system is confined to one level of government.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 29

29) Studies have found that people with the most likelihood of being victimized fear crime the most.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 30

30) The crime rate does not always correlate with the public perception of the level of crime.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 31

31) Some criminal offenses involve no discernible victim.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 32

32) Local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies are all subject to individual agency cultures rather than one national law enforcement culture affecting individual law enforcement agencies.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 33

33) Police officers never make initial contact in a criminal offense.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 34

34) If the prosecutor’s office decides that there is enough evidence to proceed with the case, they will charge the suspect with a specific crime. The prosecutor is unlikely to decide to dismiss the case at this point.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 35

35) As a society, we cannot afford to spend the money and resources necessary to have a totally crime-free society.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 1 – Question 36

36) Little of the personal philosophy and judgment of criminal justice professionals goes into deciding what happens to cases.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 37

37) Many offenses go undetected, and their harm to society is not generally perceived.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 38

38) Rarely are offenses sensationalized by the media and given such vast resources in their detection and prosecution that they distort the perception of the amount and seriousness of crime.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 39

39) Crime in the United States has risen steadily for the last several years.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 1 - Question 40

40) It is useful to envision the criminal justice system as a large funnel in which cases move downward toward their disposition.

a. True

b. False