Deck 5: The Police

Question 1

Which of the following is True of police-juvenile relations from the 1980s to the present time?

A) The rise of gangs resulted in police's focus on gang control.
B) The problem of juvenile crime was first addressed by the police.
C) Prevention work with juveniles expanded to the schools.
D) The Juvenile Officers' Association was formed.

Answer 1

The rise of gangs resulted in police's focus on gang control.

Question 2

In the earliest Puritan communities, who would assume the task of punishing youth if the family failed?

A) law enforcement
B) church and community elders
C) school administrators
D) relatives

Answer 2

church and community elders

Question 3

Which of the following accurately describes socialization?

A) Youths have more negative attitudes toward the police than do older citizens.
B) Older, married, and employed respondents report a positive image of the police.
C) Youths were taught the rules of society from the time they were born.
D) Juveniles' attitudes toward the police are positively correlated with the youths' attitudes toward parents and teachers.

Answer 3

Youths were taught the rules of society from the time they were born.

Question 4

Which of the following statements is True of police attitudes toward youth crimes?

A) Police officers have no reluctance when it comes to juvenile engagements.
B) Overall, the police have a more negative view toward youthful offenders today than in the past.
C) Because there is no danger in police-youth encounters, police can be less guarded.
D) Police must always defend the authority of their position.

Question 5

Which of the following is one of the things a director of a youth facility had to say about Darrell Dirks?

A) The kids won't tell him who is doing what.
B) He talks to juveniles like an adult.
C) He does not punch kids.
D) Kids will punch him.

Question 6

Studies show that juveniles who have had contact with the police have more negative attitudes toward them than those who have not had contact. This seems to be especially True of ________.

A) urban Caucasians
B) Hispanics
C) African Americans
D) rural females

Question 7

Which of the following is True of juvenile attitudes towards police?

A) Boys are more positive than girls.
B) Females are more positive than males.
C) African Americans are more positive than Caucasians.
D) Most youths appear to have a negative attitude towards police.

Question 8

Which of the following would be an unimportant factor influencing a police officer's disposition of a juvenile?

A) socioeconomic status
B) nature of police-community interaction
C) departmental policy
D) citizen complainants

Question 9

Which one of the following is the most important factor in influencing police action toward juveniles?

A) the seriousness of the offense
B) individual characteristics of the juvenile
C) the sex, race, and socioeconomic status of the offender
D) external pressures in the community

Question 10

Which of the following police actions is an informal response to youthful misbehavior?

A) Police work with school personnel in getting truant youths back in schools.
B) Police, after arresting and booking youths, waive them directly to adult court for further evaluation.
C) The parents of arrested youths are called to the police station to have their child released to their supervision.
D) After evaluation by the court intake personnel, youths are placed in secure detention awaiting preliminary hearing and trial.

Question 11

An officer sees some Caucasian kids fighting outside of the police station and stops to break it up and sends them on their way with a warning is an example of ________.

A) informal processing
B) station house processing
C) formal processing
D) favoritism

Question 12

Which of the following prohibited the use of a confession in court unless the individual was advised of his or her rights before interrogation?

A) Haley v. Ohio
B) Miranda v. Arizona
C) Commonwealth v. Guyton
D) Brown v. Mississippi

Question 13

The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States protects citizens from unauthorized ________.

A) community-based interventions
B) interrogation and confession
C) search and seizure
D) lineups and photographs

Question 14

Which of the following accurately describes a Terry Frisk?

A) an unreasonable seizure leading to evidence
B) a random check of lockers, conducted by the school
C) a pat down of a youth's outer clothing to detect weapons
D) a random canine scan of school premises

Question 15

The Supreme Court decision in which of the following cases states that evidence gathered in an unreasonable search and seizure is inadmissible in court?

A) Safford Unified School District v. Redding
B) Brown v. Mississippi
C) Arizona v. Gant
D) Mapp v. Ohio

Question 16

Which of the following was designed to teach students the fundamental principles needed to become responsible citizens in a constitutional democracy?

A) community-oriented policing services
B) law enforcement education
C) gang resistance education and training
D) broadcast emergency response

Question 17

In which temporary gang unit would the officers not be exclusively concerned with gang problems?

A) law enforcement education
B) gun-free school zones
C) youth service program
D) community-oriented policing services

Question 18

Which of the following is accurate about gang detail?

A) Gang detail members see themselves as specialists who work on gang problems.
B) Gang detail members see themselves as amateurs who work on gang problems.
C) Gang detail officers routinely work on other assignments.
D) Gang detail officers are partly assigned to gang problems.

Question 19

Which of the following is a police activity to combat delinquency?

A) C.H.E.E.R.S.
B) S.C.A.R.E.
C) Outward Bound
D) Project Badge

Question 20

What unique one-day police-juvenile program brings officers and middle school students together for a range of team building activities?

A) the Perryville Outback Rally
B) the Baltimore Outward Bound Police Insight Program
C) the Boston Police Outer Limits Gala
D) the Texan Outreach Reunion

Question 21

Ninety percent of the nation's largest cities had instituted some type of juvenile program by 1924.

Question 22

Prevention work with juveniles didn't expand to the schools until the late 1990s.

Question 23

The police overall have more positive attitudes today toward youthful offenders than in the past.

Question 24

Police must endure verbal abuse from juveniles so as not to appear to defend their authority.

Question 25

Yoland G. Hurst found that urban youths exhibit a more positive attitude toward the police than do rural youths.

Question 26

The subject of juveniles' attitudes toward the police has not been given much attention in recent decades.

Question 27

The most important factor that influences the disposition of the youthful offender is the seriousness of the offense.

Question 28

The demeanor of a juvenile offender is a factor in an officer's determination of what action to take.

Question 29

Officers striking friendship with local youths on the streets is an example of station house adjustment.

Question 30

In states with legislative waiver, police discretion is limited.

Question 31

In Arizona v. Gant, the Supreme Court examined whether the Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches and seizures applies to the school setting.

Question 32

Brown v. Mississippi applies the "totality of the circumstances"
approach to juveniles' interrogations.

Question 33

Community-based interventions focus on developing effective delinquency prevention programs in schools.

Question 34

The number of street gangs declined dramatically across the nation beginning in the late 1980s.

Question 35

To determine a youth's appropriateness for intervention, candidates for the police referral programs are evaluated by a SHIELD resource officer.

Question 36

The most popular school-based drug education program in the nation is Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.).

Question 37

In a major development in the mid-1920s, Chief August Vollmer brought together the various segments of a police force to form a youth ________.

Question 38

The Central States Juvenile Officers Association was formed in the year ________.

Question 39

________ officers are particularly reluctant to engage in juvenile encounters.

Question 40

Juveniles are even more likely to challenge the authority of the police officer when they are with ________.

Question 41

The most ________ attitudes toward police are typically those of youths with extensive histories of law-violating activities.

Question 42

A survey of high school ________ revealed that the attitudes of juveniles toward the police today seem to be more positive than they were during the 1980s and 1990s.

Question 43

________ can be defined as a choice a police officer makes between two or more possible means of handling the situation.

Question 44

A number of studies have found that the ________ of citizens or the complaint of a citizen is an important determining factor in the disposition of an incident involving a youth.

Question 45

In combined informal and formal processing of juveniles, officers officially notify________ agencies after taking the youth in custody.

Question 46

When a youth is taken into custody, he or she is booked, ________, and then referred to juvenile intake.

Question 47

The inadmissibility of illegally obtained evidence is referred to as the ________ rule.

Question 48

In the case of New Jersey v. T.L.O., the Supreme Court examined whether the Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches and seizures applies to the ________ setting.

Question 49

The G.R.E.A.T. program did not reduce youths' involvement in ________ and delinquent behavior.

Question 50

The effects of D.A.R.E. on drug use behavior are extremely ________.

Question 51

The ________ are the first line of contact with law-violating juveniles.

Question 52

Police can utilize approved and formalized procedures called for by project ________ to get the youths to appropriate agencies.

Question 53

Match each term with its description.

-1900s - 1930s

A) Juvenile Officer's Association formed
B) Juvenile crime first addressed by police
C) Juvenile prevention expanded to schools
D) Rise of gangs throughout the nation

Question 54

Match each term with its description.

-1990s - 2014

A) Juvenile Officer's Association formed
B) Juvenile crime first addressed by police
C) Juvenile prevention expanded to schools
D) Rise of gangs throughout the nation

Question 55

Match each term with its description.

-1950s

A) Juvenile Officer's Association formed
B) Juvenile crime first addressed by police
C) Juvenile prevention expanded to schools
D) Rise of gangs throughout the nation

Question 56

Match each term with its description.

-1960s

A) Juvenile Officer's Association formed
B) Juvenile crime first addressed by police
C) Juvenile prevention expanded to schools
D) Rise of gangs throughout the nation

Question 57

Match each term with its description.

-Mapp v. Ohio

A) Applied search and seizure to schools
B) Vehicle searches
C) Applied fourth amendment to juveniles
D) Illegal searches made evidence inadmissible

Question 58

Match each term with its description.

-State v. Lowery

A) Applied search and seizure to schools
B) Vehicle searches
C) Applied fourth amendment to juveniles
D) Illegal searches made evidence inadmissible

Question 59

Match each term with its description.

-Arizona v. Gant

A) Applied search and seizure to schools
B) Vehicle searches
C) Applied fourth amendment to juveniles
D) Illegal searches made evidence inadmissible

Question 60

Match each term with its description.

-New Jersey v. T.L.O.

A) Applied search and seizure to schools
B) Vehicle searches
C) Applied fourth amendment to juveniles
D) Illegal searches made evidence inadmissible

Question 61

Match each term with its description.

-1936

A) Fare v. Michael C.
B) Brown v. Mississippi
C) In re Gault
D) Haley v. Ohio

Question 62

Match each term with its description.

-1948

A) Fare v. Michael C.
B) Brown v. Mississippi
C) In re Gault
D) Haley v. Ohio

Question 63

Match each term with its description.

-1967

A) Fare v. Michael C.
B) Brown v. Mississippi
C) In re Gault
D) Haley v. Ohio

Question 64

Match each term with its description.

-1979

A) Fare v. Michael C.
B) Brown v. Mississippi
C) In re Gault
D) Haley v. Ohio

Question 65

Describe the factors determining the police officers' disposition of juveniles.

Question 66

What are the various ways in which police departments are attempting to implement policing in the prevention and deterrence of youth crime?

Question 67

Explain the legal rights of juveniles in regard to search and seizure?

Question 68

: You are a city court judge. You are hearing a case in which the defense is arguing to suppress the statements of the juvenile defendant. The defense claims that the police officer compelled her client to incriminate himself. The police officer testified that he read the rights directly from the standard card used by the police department. You then asked the officer if he said anything to the suspect that may have compelled him to talk. The officer answers that all he said was "I decide if you get to go home tonight or stay in jail, so you better cooperate with me."
Question: Should the defendant's statements be admissible based on the officer's testimony?

Question 69

You are a beat officer and get called to a small convenience store to investigate a shoplifting. Upon arrival you find out the suspect is a 12-year-old male who tried stealing a comic book. The storeowner does not wish to prosecute the suspect, but he felt that calling the police would make a lasting impact on the juvenile and hopefully change his ways.
Question: Explain your options and the course of action you would likely take.