Deck 1: Value-Based Decision Making: Understanding the Ethics of Noble Cause

Question 1

Muir tried to make the point that

A)a mature man is aware of a responsibility for the consequences of his conduct.
B)police, not politicians, should make the laws.
C)dirty means are sometimes appropriate for the achievement of good ends.
D)police must use coercion to get people to do what they want them to do.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

refers to violent or rude treatment carried out by the police against citizens judged to be troublemakers.

Answer 2

Rough justice

Question 3

At some point in their careers, police officers will find themselves in means-ends conflicts, situations in which the good goal cannot be accomplished by the legal procedure.

Answer 3

means-ends conflicts

Question 4

refers to the ethical concern that means used to achieve ends should conform to broad considerations of human values, particularly as those values are embodied in legal and administrative due process.

Question 5

Muir's recommendation for officers faced with means-ends conflicts was to combine passion with .

Question 6

An example of the power of self is

A)the threat or application of force.
B)mentoring youth.
C)trading something of value for cooperation.
D)refusing a bribe.

Question 7

In order to understand and control police brutality, it is necessary to recognize

A)the importance of training films.
B)early warning signs of emotional stress.
C)the way in which police relate to victims and want to get even for them.
D)the way in which line officers relate to administrators and want to impress them.

Question 8

The British Broadcasting Company Prison Study examined

A)street justice.
B)reform at Abu Ghraib.
C)the Stanford Prison Experiment.
D)the "Dirty Harry " problem.

Question 9

According to Van Maanen, "assholes" are

A)criminals.
B)citizens who challenge police control of their territory.
C)corrupt police officers who give the department a bad name.
D)officers who use excessive force.

Question 10

Early definitions of police culture were stated in terms of "informal organization," which meant that

A)groups of individuals develop informal rules for getting along.
B)police communication tended to be vertical, from the top down.
C)social adaptation was irrelevant to organizational culture.
D)all individuals had an equal chance to be promoted.

Question 11

Dedication to the noble cause, concern for victims, and "running toward the tower" are examples of

A)means-ends conflicts.
B)external ethics.
C)the Dirty Harry problem.
D)subcultural traits.

Question 12

The power of self is the power of the police to lead the public by

A)legal authority.
B)teaching self-esteem.
C)assertiveness.
D)example.

Question 13

Police officers have three ways to get people to do what they want them to do, the power of the purse, the power of the word, and

A)perspective.
B)coercion.
C)cynicism.
D)the noble cause.

Question 14

When we say police can "smell the victim's blood," we mean they

A)have a sixth sense about crime.
B)pay attention to details at a crime scene.
C)are resolutely focused on the consequences of crime for victims.
D)believe victims are often responsible for being victimized.

Question 15

The power to show others right behavior through example is the .

Question 16

The operative assumption of guilt means

A)police are predisposed to believe they are dealing with guilty people.
B)police must assume the responsibility for crime committed in their territory.
C)a defendant is guilty unless he can prove he's innocent.
D)the operator of a motor vehicle is liable in the case of an accident; a passenger cannot assume guilt for the driver.

Question 17

In Crank's anthropological notion of culture as applied to the police, he notes that

A)"Common sense" is all we need to differentiate right from wrong.
B)The smallest unit of social structure is the clique.
C)Culture is always in the process of being created.
D)Sensibility has nothing to do with morality.

Question 18

The noble cause is a profound moral commitment to make the world a safer place to live.

Question 19

According to Muir, lies in the ability to reconcile the use of force with a belief in just means.

Question 20

Making choices and determining courses of behavior based on personal morality is called value-based decisionmaking.

Question 21

In the Stanford Prison Experiment, students

A)carried out coercive and brutal behaviors against other students.
B)refused to participate in abusive behaviors toward other students.
C)followed professors' instructions to carry out abusive behaviors.
D)did what they had to do to get an "A".

Question 22

Crank and Caldero suggest that the brutal treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, like the behavior of the students in the Stanford Prison experiment, resulted from a lack of

A)commitment to a moral cause.
B)economic resources.
C)understanding of cultural differences.
D)training and leadership.