Deck 1: Crime and Criminal Justice

Question 1

This is the violation of the laws of a society by a person or a group of people who are subject to the laws of that society.

A) Speeding
B) Plea bargaining
C) Crime
D) socialization

Answer 1

Crime

Question 2

This consists of the rules, habits, and customs a society uses to enforce conformity to its norms.

A) Crime control model
B) Justice
C) Sociological imagination
D) Social control

Answer 2

Social control

Question 3

This is the administration of a punishment or reward in accordance with morals that a given society considers correct.

A) Justice
B) Social control
C) Sentence
D) discretion

Answer 3

Justice

Question 4

To administer a legal process of judging and to pronounce a judgment.

A) Arrest
B) Adjudicate
C) Parole
D) probate

Question 5

This criminal justice model describes the expectation of an efficient criminal justice system.

A) war-on-crime model
B) Crime control model
C) Justice model
D) Due process model

Question 6

This criminal justice model describes the expectation of a just and fair criminal justice system.

A) Crime control model
B) Rehabilitative model
C) Retributive model
D) Due process model

Question 7

According to the wedding-cake model of criminal justice, what does the top layer represent?

A) Celebrated cases
B) Serious felonies
C) Misdemeanors
D) Less-serious felonies

Question 8

According to the wedding-cake model of criminal justice, what does the second layer represent?

A) Celebrated cases
B) Serious felonies
C) Misdemeanors
D) Less-serious felonies

Question 9

According to the wedding-cake model of criminal justice, what does the bottom layer represent?

A) Celebrated cases
B) Serious felonies
C) Misdemeanors
D) Less-serious felonies

Question 10

In society, which of these dictate what is acceptable and what is punished?

A) Rules
B) Laws
C) Folkways
D) All of the above

Question 11

These offenses include drug use, disturbing the peace, drunkenness, prostitution, and some forms of gambling.

A) Public-order crime
B) Property crime
C) Violent crime
D) felonies

Question 12

This criminal offense is committed during the course of business for financial gain.

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

Question 13

This minor criminal offense is punishable by a fine and/or jail time for up to one year.

A) Felony
B) Murder
C) Misdemeanor
D) rape

Question 14

This is the murder of three or more people in a single incident.

A) Group murder
B) Larceny
C) Serial murder
D) Mass murder

Question 15

Police officers, prosecutors, judges, and corrections officials use this to decide what to do with individual cases.

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

Question 16

Only a small percentage of offenses result in someone going to prison.

Question 17

Cases move through the criminal justice system in an inconsistent manner.

Question 18

The criminal justice system is confined to one level of government.

Question 19

Studies have found that people with the most likelihood of being victimized fear crime the most.

Question 20

The crime rate does not always correlate with the public perception of the level of crime.

Question 21

Local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies are all subject to individual agency cultures rather than one national law enforcement culture affecting individual law enforcement agencies.

Question 22

Police officers never make initial contact in a criminal offense.

Question 23

If the prosecutor's office decides that there is enough evidence to proceed with the case, they will charge the suspect with a specific crime. The prosecutor is unlikely to decide to dismiss the case at this point.

Question 24

As a society, we cannot afford to spend the money and resources necessary to have a totally crime-free society.

Question 25

Little of the personal philosophy and judgment of criminal justice professionals goes into deciding what happens to cases.

Question 26

Rarely are offenses sensationalized by the media and given such vast resources in their detection and prosecution that they distort the perception of the amount and seriousness of crime.

Question 27

Crime in the United States has risen steadily for the last several years.