Police Functions and Police Culture Test Bank Docx Chapter 6 - Criminal Justice 6th Edition | Test Bank by Freda Adler by Freda Adler. DOCX document preview.
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1. | Most encounters between the police and the public are initiated by ________.
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2. | The influential book, Varieties of Police Behavior was written by _____________.
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3. | Which of the following is not one of Wilson's three styles of policing?
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4. | The _________________ of police departments are in suburban communities where residents expect and receive a high level of service from local government.
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5. | The _________________ of police departments has a professional orientation with an emphasis on law enforcement.
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6. | The _________________ of police departments concentrates on the order maintenance function of law enforcement.
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7. | A strategy that relies on public confidence and citizen cooperation to help prevent crime and make the residents of a community feel more secure is called ___________.
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8. | Those who use computers for malicious purposes are called ______________.
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9. | The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 ________________.
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10. | The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act was proposed by ____________.
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11. | ________________ attempts to enhance the community's perception of the police, not to change the basic method of policing the community.
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12. | The Guardian Angels are ____________________.
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13. | A nationwide program that offers rewards for information leading to the arrest of criminal is called __________.
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14. | A recent study in a city of 400,000 found that crime fighting accounted for _______ of an officer's time.
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15. | How has the use of bicycle patrol helped improve policing?
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16. | The Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment found that _____________.
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17. | A police response strategy that involves classifying calls for service and using various responses is called ______________.
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18. | When patrol officers are assigned to specific activities, such as patrolling a high-crime area that is chosen after an analysis of crime patterns, it is called _______________.
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19. | A strategy that seeks to identify the underlying problems within a community so that the community and police can work together to solve them is called __________.
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20. | Problem-oriented policing is the creation of University of Wisconsin Law School professor ________________.
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21. | The majority of prisoners in the federal prison system are sent there for _______.
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22. | Drug offenders made up ______ of the federal prison population sentenced in 2004.
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23. | How much does the federal government spend on enforcement of federal drug law?
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24. | The case of Thurman v. Torrington was about ___________.
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25. | The illegal police practice of persuading an initially unwilling party to commit an offense is called ____________________.
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26. | A deceitful but lawful technique in which police pretend to be involved in illegal activities to trap a suspect is called ______________.
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27. | The practice of a police officer disguising himself as a potential crime victim to attract criminal attacks precipitating an arrest is called ______________.
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28. | An intensified effort by the police to deal with a problem in a particular area, or to reduce the incidence of a particular crime is called a(an) ___________.
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29. | An approach to policing that is characterized by a lowering of tolerance to crime and deviance and the use of punitive measures to achieve this goal is called ________.
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30. | In 2001, approximately _____________ people were killed in police chases.
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31. | In 2006, approximately ___________ police officers were killed in police chases.
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32. | African Americans make up approximately 12% of the U.S. population. They make up _____ of the police population.
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33. | Which of the following are important factors in the "working personality" of a police officer?
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34. | Officers who solicit bribes or cooperate with criminals for personal gain are called ______________.
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35. | Officers who accept payoffs for rendering police services or for looking the other way when police action is required are called _________.
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36. | Most encounters between the police and the public are initiated by ________. |
37. | The influential book, Varieties of Police Behavior was written by _____________. |
38. | The _________________ of police departments are in suburban communities where residents expect and receive a high level of service from local government. |
39. | The _________________ of police departments has a professional orientation with an emphasis on law enforcement. |
40. | The _________________ of police departments concentrates on the order maintenance function of law enforcement. |
41. | A strategy that relies on public confidence and citizen cooperation to help prevent crime and make the residents of a community feel more secure is called ___________. |
42. | The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act was proposed by President _________. |
43. | ________________ attempts to enhance the community's perception of the police, not to change the basic method of policing the community. |
44. | The Guardian Angels are ____________________. |
45. | A nationwide program that offers rewards for information leading to the arrest of criminals is called __________. |
46. | The _________________ found that changing the patrol intensity did not affect crime rates in the area. |
47. | A police response strategy that involves classifying calls for service and using various responses is called ______________. |
48. | When patrol officers are assigned to specific activities, such as patrolling a high-crime area that is chosen after an analysis of crime patterns, it is called _______________. |
49. | A strategy that seeks to identify the underlying problems within a community so that the community and police can work together to solve them is called __________. |
50. | A ____________ is an external control mechanism that is composed of persons usually from outside the police department. |
51. | Problem-oriented policing is the creation of University of Wisconsin Law School professor ________________. |
52. | A response strategy that involves classifying calls for service and using various responses is called _____________. |
53. | The case of Thurman v. Torrington was about ___________. |
54. | The illegal police practice of persuading an initially unwilling party to commit an offense is called ____________________. |
55. | A deceitful, but lawful, technique in which police pretend to be involved in illegal activities to trap a suspect is called ___________. |
56. | Neighborhood Watch Programs have been demonstrated to reduce crime in most neighborhoods by 30 to 40 percent. |
57. | The Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment did not actually occur in Kansas City, it occurred at the other end of the state in St. Louis. |
58. | Police officers cannot sell drugs to a person and then arrest them for that would be entrapment. |
59. | For several countries, it has been shown that cultural factors, including social disapproval and publicity, are more effective in controlling drunk driving than police-enforced deterrence. |
60. | It has been a tradition in law enforcement that local police departments and the FBI share information related to criminal activity. |
61. | Blacks are completely underrepresented in policing with only 6% of the police population being black. |
62. | The practice of a police officer disguising himself as a potential crime victim to attract criminal attacks precipitating an arrest is called entrapment. |
63. | A deceitful but lawful technique in which the police pretend to be involved in illegal activities to trap a suspect is called a sting operation. |
64. | The illegal police practice of persuading an initially unwilling party to commit an offense is called entrapment. |
65. | The case of Thurman v. Torrington was about entrapment. |
66. | The majority of prisoners in the federal prison system are sent there for murder. |
67. | An approach to policing that is characterized by a lowering of tolerance to crime and deviance and the use of punitive measures to achieve this goal is called zero tolerance. |
68. | African Americans make up approximately 12% of the U.S. population. They make up approximately 11% of the police population. |
69. | Officers who solicit bribes or cooperate with criminals for personal gain are called meat eaters. |
70. | Officers who accept payoffs for rendering police services or for looking the other way when police action is required are called grass eaters. |
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