Deck 1: Crime and the Problem of Social Control

Question 1

This is an action taken by a person or a group of people that violates the rules of society to the point of harm.

A)Speeding.
B)Plea bargaining.
C)Crime.
D)Socialization.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

This kind of crime includes interpersonal violence and property crime.

A)Sensational crime.
B)White-collar crime.
C)Street crime.
D)Organized crime.

Answer 2

C

Question 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.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

What we know about crime is often based on incomplete and inaccurate information. Why?

A)We tend to personalize.
B)Crime statistics do not tell the whole story.
C)All crime is local crime.
D)All of the above.

Question 5

The process by which individuals acquire a personal identity and learn appropriate norms, values, behavior, and social skills.

A)Socialization.
B)Sociological imagination.
C)Crime.
D)Discretion.

Question 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.

Question 7

This is a social institution that has the mission of controlling 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.

Question 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.

Question 9

A written request to a higher court to modify or reverse the judgment of a trial court or intermediate-level appellate court.

A)Application.
B)Appeal.
C)Arrest.
D)Warrant.

Question 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.

Question 11

Like Prohibition, this has provided opportunities for a variety of criminal organizations.

A)The war on crime.
B)The war on drugs.
C)The war on illiteracy.
D)The war on terrorism.

Question 12

The chief law enforcement officer for each county is the locally elected .

A)Chief of police.
B)Judge.
C)Court reporter.
D)Sheriff.

Question 13

The sheriff's office is responsible for providing these to courts.

A)Bailiffs.
B)Warrants.
C)Court reporters.
D)Metal detectors.

Question 14

For the most part, city and county courts deal with these types of violations.

A)Misdemeanors.
B)Felonies.
C)Sensational crimes.
D)None of the above.

Question 15

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

A)Capital crimes.
B)Felonies.
C)White-collar crimes.
D)Misdemeanors.

Question 16

This facility usually holds offenders who have already been sentenced to a year or less of incarceration.

A)Federal prison.
B)Local jail.
C)State prison.
D)County stockade.

Question 17

A is a component of a county corrections system that usually holds offenders who have already been sentenced.

A)None of the above.
B)Courthouse holding cell.
C)County stockade.
D)State prison.

Question 18

This is the punishment that a person convicted of a criminal offense is ordered by a judge to receive.

A)Sentence.
B)Disposition.
C)Offense.
D)Adjudication.

Question 19

This is a district established within a state judicial system or the federal judicial system.

A)Jurisdiction.
B)Circuit.
C)County.
D)Level.

Question 20

A nonviolent criminal offense committed during the course of business for financial gain.

A)Street crime.
B)Property crime.
C)Organized crime.
D)White-collar crime.

Question 21

These are responsible for maintaining safety on the state roads and interstate highways.

A)City police units.
B)State highway patrol units.
C)Sheriff's deputies.
D)FBI agents.

Question 22

This is the court of final appeal, but it only deals with a few cases.

A)Magistrate courts.
B)State supreme courts.
C)The U.S. Supreme Court.
D)Circuit courts of appeals.

Question 23

This federal agency was created in 1789.

A)Texas Rangers.
B)Secret Service.
C)Federal Bureau of Investigation.
D)U.S. Marshals Service.

Question 24

This federal agency investigates fraud and counterfeiting.

A)U.S. Marshals Service.
B)Internal Revenue Service.
C)Federal Bureau of Investigation.
D)Secret Service.

Question 25

Police officers, prosecutors, judges, and corrections officials use this to decide which cases are moved further into the criminal justice system.

A)Statutes.
B)Laws.
C)Discretion.
D)Warrants.

Question 26

Which are goals of the criminal justice system?

A)Retribution.
B)Deterrence.
C)Incapacitation.
D)All of the above.

Question 27

Many offenses that enter the system are systematically excluded for several reasons, which include the following:

A)Cost.
B)Discretion.
C)Errors.
D)All of the above.

Question 28

This is an act or the threat of an act that inhibits or prevents another act.

A)Deterrence.
B)Stoppage.
C)Arrest.
D)All of the above.

Question 29

This is punishment that is considered deserved.

A)Rehabilitation.
B)Parole.
C)Retribution.
D)Probation.

Question 30

This involves correcting the offender's behavior and giving him or her the skills and ability to survive in society without violating the law.

A)Rehabilitation.
B)Incapacitation.
C)Retribution.
D)Probation.

Question 31

Of all the arrests made by the police, only a percentage result in a person being charged with a crime and funneled into the criminal justice system.

Question 32

The political configurations of each state are almost exactly alike.

Question 33

The criminal justice system always works as a smooth-functioning and well-coordinated mechanism.

Question 34

Controlling and preventing crime is solely the responsibility of the criminal justice system.

Question 35

The primary institution of socialization is the family.

Question 36

Responsibility for making and enforcing the law is spread unevenly across different levels of government.

Question 37

The overlap of jurisdictions makes the criminal justice system inefficient.

Question 38

Little of the authority for law enforcement lies at the local level.

Question 39

Law enforcement functions at the state level usually cover a variety of missions.

Question 40

Most criminal justice activity for the courts is at the state level.

Question 41

Little of the work of federal law enforcement is concerned with white-collar crime.

Question 42

The Drug Enforcement Administration is the largest investigative branch of the Department of Homeland Security.

Question 43

The Secret Service is responsible only for protecting the president.

Question 44

Most criminal offenses result in someone going to prison.

Question 45

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

Question 46

Specific deterrence occurs when an offender is caught and punished, and the rest of us do not break the law because we saw what happened to the offender and understand that the same consequences would befall us if we were caught breaking the law.

Question 47

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

Question 48

Crime in the United States has dropped steadily for the past several years.

Question 49

The media are agents of social control.

Question 50

Controlling and preventing antisocial behavior is solely the responsibility of the criminal justice system.

Question 51

How has California sharpened its three-strikes law?

Question 52

Why can't federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies work together smoothly?

Question 53

What two basic types of inmates do county jails hold?

Question 54

Why is socialization important?

Question 55

What are three reasons that some offenses are excluded from the criminal justice system?

Question 56

What sets the U.S. criminal justice system apart from the systems of many other nations?

Question 57

What people think they know about crime is often based on incomplete and inaccurate information. Give three reasons why.

Question 58

Why must state inmates sometimes serve out all or part of their sentences in local jails?

Question 59

How has the war on drugs affected federal prison systems?

Question 60

Regarding the criminal justice system "funnel," what is the difference between "offenses" and "offenses known to the police"?