Deck 8: Police Culture, Ends Orientation, and Noble-Cause Corruption

Question 1

The ability to identify wrongdoing based on intuition, not fact, is called

A)the numerology of authority.
B)noble-cause corruption.
C)edge control.
D)sixth-sense suspicion.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The problem with deceptive legal practices used to trick or badger a suspect into confessing is that

A)citizens subjected to these techniques end up disliking the police.
B)they encourage street officers to cross the line to noble-cause corruption.
C)the behavior, while legal, is morally questionable.
D)all of the above

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The refers to the rift between line officers and personnel with rank above lieutenant, and the resulting conflicts and antagonism between the two groups.

Answer 3

crevasse

Question 4

The belief that a department should be organized hierarchically is characteristic of .

Question 5

refers to the skills police officers have to contain turbulence below the edge of significant danger.

Question 6

In police-citizen interactions, the point at which turbulence turns into physical danger is called

A)the edge.
B)the crevasse.
C)the code.
D)the warping effect.

Question 7

Type 2 drug corruption is corruption that occurs

A)in the pursuit of material gains.
B)when the officer is off duty.
C)because of a rotten apple.
D)in support of organizational goals.

Question 8

The operative assumption of guilt means that

A)police officers believe any one they arrest is guilty.
B)police officers believe anyone who confesses to a crime.
C)an innocent person must prove he or she is innocent.
D)a guilty person assumes responsibility for his or her behavior.

Question 9

Efforts to change police behavior may result in the , an increase in resistance that makes change more difficult in the long run.

Question 10

Street justice or violence acted out by police officers against individuals or groups they personally dislike is characterized as

A)street cop culture.
B)the avenging angel syndrome.
C)the warping effect.
D)post hoc compliance.

Question 11

According to Reuss-Ianni (1983:1), the organization of policing is best understood in terms of the interactions between street cop culture and

A)management cop culture.
B)popular culture.
C)the general public.
D)line cop culture.

Question 12

When police culture adapts to changes and assimilates them into its own values, the may shift the effect of changes in unplanned ways.

Question 13

is based on a legal standard of reasonableness for thinking a suspect might be involved in dangerous or criminal activity.

Question 14

Management cop culture is characterized by a belief in

A)the "good old days" of policing.
B)value-based decisionmaking.
C)rule utilitarianism.
D)principles of scientific management.

Question 15

When force is justified but an officer uses a greater degree than is necessary, it is a case of

A)police brutality.
B)noble-cause violence.
C)excessive force.
D)edge control.

Question 16

A department in which relationships are familial and officers count on informal friendship and alliances in their work is an example of .

Question 17

means the accepted practices, rules, and principles of conduct that are situationally applied by line officers within a particular organization.

Question 18

The activities of line officers and their friends are not to be discussed with others, according to the .

Question 19

Barker's survey of police behavior found that testimonial deception among police officers was

A)widely tolerated.
B)a rare occurrence.
C)strongly condemned.
D)occasionally permissible.

Question 20

A patrol officer's street environment includes the locations where daily work is carried out and the kinds of people encountered there.

Question 21

The idea that the activities of line officers on a particular shift are not to be discussed with others, especially management, is the basics of what Reuss-Ianni calls

A)street environment.
B)boomerang effect.
C)the code.
D)management cop culture.

Question 22

Police culture adapts to and assimilates proposed and intended changes into its own values, thus shifting the effects of changes in unplanned ways.This is known as

A)the boomerang effect.
B)the warping effect.
C)street cop culture.
D)the crevasse.

Question 23

The New Mexico Highway 40 Cocaine Courier profile states, "The vehicle occupants are usually resident aliens from Colombia." This is an example of

A)noble cause corruption.
B)operative assumption of guilt.
C)the code.
D)racial profiling.

Question 24

The use of deceptive practices to convince a suspect to confess guilt for a crime demonstrates

A)ends-oriented ethics.
B)the due process model.
C)police brutality.
D)the warping effect.

Question 25

The belief that all citizens are potential criminals and that dark threats are everywhere is characteristic of

A)avenging angel syndrome.
B)siege mentality.
C)street cop culture.
D)the crevasse.

Question 26

Manning and Redlinger (1977) found that narcotics agents may be compelled to commit noble cause corruption by

A)financial necessity.
B)curiosity about the effects of drugs.
C)lack of ethics training.
D)departmental pressures.