Deck 9: Ethics and Deviance

Question 1

What differentiates police crime from crimes committed by police officers?

A) Police crime involves the officer's use of official powers to engage in criminal conduct.
B) Police crime is always committed while on duty.
C) Police crime takes place in patrol cars.
D) All crimes committed by police officers are police crimes.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which of the following best describes bribery?

A) It is officer initiated and includes the threat of arrest if the offender does not give something of value.
B) It is citizen initiated and includes an offer to have an officer do or not do something.
C) It is officer initiated and includes the promise of increased patrol.
D) It is citizen initiated and is merely a gesture of appreciation.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

When a citizen offers a police officer something of value to influence the officer's performance of duty, this conduct is called:

A) bribery
B) coercion
C) extortion
D) corruption

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which of the following best describes the difference between extortion and bribery?

A) Extortion involves networks of officers.
B) Extortion involves high-ranking officers.
C) Extortion is initiated by the citizen.
D) Extortion is initiated by the officer

Question 5

The use of threat of arrest or harassment by an officer against someone who has committed or is suspected of committing a crime to avoid arrest is known as:

A) bribery
B) coercion
C) extortion
D) corruption

Question 6

Which of the following best describes the two problems illegal drug use presents to police agencies?

A) recruiting applicants who are drug free and ensuring the integrity of officers, once employed.
B) ensuring the integrity of officers and preventing drug use among teenagers
C) preventing drug use among teenagers and recruiting applicants who are drug free
D) preventing drug use among undercover officers and teenagers

Question 7

Narcotics trafficking offers police officers the potential to make a significant amount of money by merely ______________.

A) initiating drug deals
B) turning their heads
C) extorting informants
D) growing marijuana

Question 8

Which of the following best describes the results of the Knapp Commission's inquiry into the NYPD?

A) They found widespread corruption at all levels of the department.
B) They found only a few "rotten apples."
C) They found corruption at only the lowest levels.
D) They found no corruption.

Question 9

The Knapp Commission characterized corrupt police officers as ______________________.

A) enforcement and vice
B) patrol and investigation
C) grass-eaters and meat-eaters
D) passive and aggressive

Question 10

Which of the following best describes officers who engage in illegal activities only occasionally or when the circumstances of their work present an opportunity to do so?

A) meat-eaters
B) grass-eaters
C) occupational deviants
D) agency corruption

Question 11

Officers may ___________ abuse others through the use of excessive force.

A) physically
B) psychologically
C) legally
D) financially

Question 12

Police may __________ abuse citizens through the use of verbal assault, harassment, or ridicule.

A) physically
B) psychologically
C) legally
D) financially

Question 13

Police may ___________ abuse citizens by violating a their constitutional, federal, or state rights.

A) physically
B) psychologically
C) legally
D) financially

Question 14

The term ___________ refers to corruption as requiring the misuse of authority for personal gain.

A) bribery
B) coercion
C) extortion
D) corruption

Question 15

Which of the following best describes officers who aggressively pursue corrupt activities, actively solicit bribes by threatening arrest, cooperating with criminals, or committing crimes themselves?

A) meat-eaters
B) grass-eaters
C) occupational deviants
D) agency corruption

Question 16

__________ ethics does not consider consequences but examines one's duty to act, or that some acts are morally obligatory regardless of their consequences for human welfare.

A) Normative
B) Teleological
C) Deontological
D) Virtue-based

Question 17

___________ asks that we judge the correctness of an action by its outcome or consequences. If the consequences are good, the action is moral; if the consequences are bad, the action is immoral.

A) Deontology
B) Justice
C) Goldbricking
D) Utilitarianism

Question 18

___________ implies fairness, and we can readily point to examples in which it is lacking.

A) Deontology
B) Justice
C) Goldbricking
D) Utilitarianism

Question 19

__________ is a term that is used to imply that an officer avoids work or performs only the amount necessary to satisfy department supervisors.

A) Deontology
B) Justice
C) Goldbricking
D) Utilitarianism

Question 20

__________ is any action by a police officer without regard to motive, intent, or malice that tends to injure, insult, tread on human dignity, manifest feelings of inferiority, and/or violate an inherent legal right of a member of the police constituency.

A) Officer discretion
B) Abuse of authority
C) Exploitation of diplomacy
D) Jacking-up charges

Question 21

__________ can take one of two forms: (1) requiring an individual to grant sexual favors to obtain, maintain, or improve employment status; or (2) creation of a hostile work environment.

A) Gratuities
B) Sexual harassment
C) Organized crime
D) Discrimination

Question 22

The term ___________ refers to coffee, food, or other items and services given to police officers for a reduced price or free of charge.

A) gratuities
B) sexual harassment
C) organized crime
D) discrimination

Question 23

___________ deviance refers to inappropriate work-related activities in which police may participate or the deviant behavior-criminal and noncriminal-committed during the course of normal work activities or committed under the guise of the police officer's authority.

A) Retreatist
B) Occupational
C) Conformist
D) Informal

Question 24

Police ___________ involves those situations in which a citizen experiences a sexually degrading, humiliating, violating, damaging or threatening act committed by a police officer, through the use of force or police authority.

A) sexual violence
B) racial profiling
C) verbal abuse
D) false reporting

Question 25

___________, an eighteenth century philosopher, expanded the ethics of duty by including the idea of "goodwill," believing that when people act, their actions must be guided by good intent.

A) Jeremy Bentham
B) Karl Marx
C) Immanuel Kant
D) Howard Becker

Question 26

Morality denotes the capacity of people to make judgments about what is right or good.

Question 27

The study of ethics is not an attempt to understand the "why" of human behavior but rather an attempt to evaluate behavior in terms of ethical or moral principles.

Question 28

The utilitarian philosophy of ethics emphasizes the consequences of one's actions.

Question 29

The deontological philosophy of ethics emphasizes one's duty.

Question 30

There is a single source of police ethics that should form the basis of all police decision-making.

Question 31

Determination of what conduct is ethical requires consideration of a wide range of values.

Question 32

The role of law is best understood in terms of how and why the government was created and structured.

Question 33

Social norms are developed through the process of socialization whereby members of a society are taught and internalize which behaviors are considered appropriate.

Question 34

Personal values are the general rules of behavioral expectations that are pervasive in a given group or society.

Question 35

Drug use by police officers is becoming more prevalent.