Deck 7: Ethics and the Means-Ends Dilemma

Question 1

Outsiders may be unable to find out information about the behaviors of line officers due to

A)the due process model.
B)the wall of silence.
C)justice efficiency.
D)the witness protection program.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

The process of identifying individuals by comparing base pairs of bonded nucleotides is known as

A)DNA fingerprinting.
B)population markers.
C)amplification.
D)a spit test.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

are those cases that garner a great deal of publicity, yet give a fundamentally wrong impression of courtroom practices.

Answer 3

Celebrated cases

Question 4

"The Numerology of Authority" refers to

A)recidivism in juvenile crime.
B)objectification and quantification of police work.
C)the ratio of managers to line officers.
D)deontological management style.

Question 5

The center of the means-ends continuum is

A)the noble cause.
B)value balance.
C)justice efficiency.
D)the golden apple.

Question 6

The means-ends continuum is a way of assessing

A)commitment to police values.
B)whether decisionmaking is rational or emotional.
C)the efficiency of the department.
D)ethical orientation.

Question 7

An ethics system that is means oriented is .

Question 8

How the justice system treats offenders and protection of the innocent are primary concerns of the due process model of criminal justice.

Question 9

Parker's crime control model focuses on

A)how the justice system treats offenders.
B)non-negotiable issues.
C)the ends of justice.
D)grafting subcultures.

Question 10

Police officers' values predictably place them on the crime control side of the .

Question 11

The dilemma of ends-oriented ethics is that

A)the outcome is always unpredictable.
B)the ends justify the means.
C)it requires value-neutral decisionmaking.
D)the courts are too lenient.

Question 12

Christianity and democracy are examples of

A)teleological ethical systems.
B)utilitarianism.
C)a means-ends continuum.
D)deontological ethical systems.

Question 13

Central to police values are the noble cause and

A)standard operating procedures.
B)Title 42, Section 1983.
C)departmental loyalties.
D)accountability.

Question 14

A teleological ethics system is goal- or ends-oriented.

Question 15

According to Walker, if an arrest is made, more than 70 percent of the defendants will ultimately

A)be released for legal technicalities.
B)be acquitted.
C)be paroled early.
D)be convicted.

Question 16

The model of criminal justice focuses on the ends of justice, especially punishment of the guilty.

Question 17

means that police officers make judgments about the people they deal with, and their behavior follows from these judgments.

Question 18

Sergeants straddle the world of administration and the world of the street.sergeants tend to focus on controlling their officers on the beat and production of statistics.

Question 19

One can never be certain beforehand that an outcome will be what one thinks it will be.This best describes the dilemma of ends-oriented ethics.

Question 20

Managers more concerned with craft excellence and more actively involved with their line officers are known as .

Question 21

Parker's due process model states that a person is to be found guilty if and only if

A)presumption of guilt facilitates the processing of the court's excessive caseload.
B)the process of finding guilt is accompanied by procedural rigor.
C)the good of the many is placed ahead of individual desires.
D)eyewitness testimony can be corroborated.

Question 22

Police officers' crime control values are embedded in a justice environment that reinforces a crime control perspective and tends to implicitly approve of

A)the corruption of noble cause.
B)deontological ethics.
C)DNA analysis.
D)the process model.

Question 23

Using Parker's continuum, Caldero observes that a score of _____ indicates a strong likelihood that a department is having problems with complaints against officers.

A)1 to 3
B)4 to 6
C)7 or below
D)8 or above

Question 24

Teleological ethics are

A)based on a strong faith in God.
B)utilitarian and ends-oriented.
C)influenced by watching television and perceiving the programs as realistic.
D)not relevant to discussions of police behavior.

Question 25

Misinterpretation of DNA analysis has led to many cases of

A)letting guilty persons get away with crime.
B)convicting suspects who were in fact innocent.
C)decisions not to prosecute a case.
D)hiring of additional, better trained lab personnel.

Question 26

To say that a person is deontological is to say they are

A)means-oriented.
B)not religious.
C)unethical.
D)wearing braces.