Deck 5: Organizing Criminal Justice

Question 1

Cardinal Richelieu applied many of the bureaucratic principles of the Roman Catholic Church in what country?

A) England
B) Spain
C) France
D) Portugal

Answer 1

France

Question 2

Max Weber recognized which of the following as a key feature of the modern bureaucracy

A) a system of fixed jurisdictions
B) explicit rules and procedures
C) code of discipline
D) all of the above are key features

Answer 2

all of the above are key features

Question 3

Which of the following is not true of Weber's "ideal type" of bureaucracy?

A) it is based on hierarchal principles
B) it has fixed jurisdictional areas
C) it depends on the appointment of nobility to key positions
D) all of the above are true

Answer 3

it depends on the appointment of nobility to key positions

Question 4

Which of the author wrote about styles of policing in Varieties of Police Behavior?

A)August Vollmer
B)Orlando Wilson
C)Leonard Fuld
D)None of the above

Question 5

Which of the following is argued by Elliot Jacques?

A) hierarchies are a poor organizational structure
B) mid-level managers are the key to productivity
C) bureaucracies often play to the nasty aspect of human nature
D) none of the above is argued by Elliot Jacques

Question 6

Which of the following does Elliot Jacques think is necessary to make hierarchy work?

A) the manager needs to be able to veto the hiring of sub-standard employees
B) the manager needs the right to make work assignments
C) the manager needs to be able to remove nonfunctional employees
D) Jacques thought that all of the above were necessary

Question 7

Who of the following penned the first American book on police administration?

A) Leonhard F. Fuld
B) Arthur T. Vanderbilt
C) August Vollmer
D) Orlando Wilson

Question 8

Who of the following is often called the "father of modern law enforcement?"

A) Leonhard F. Fuld
B) Arthur T. Vanderbilt
C) August Vollmer
D) Orlando Wilson

Question 9

August Vollmer was police chief of what city?

A) San Diego, California
B) Berkeley, California
C) Los Angeles, California
D) none of the above

Question 10

Which of the following was not advocated by Bruce P. Smith in Police Systems in the United States?

A) greater decentralization of police forces
B) consolidation of smaller police forces into larger ones
C) replacing sheriffs with state police
D) all of the above were advocated by Smith

Question 11

Which of the following reforms was instituted by Mary Belle Harris on Blackwell's Island?

A) a library
B) an exercise yard
C) inmate classification system
D) all of the above

Question 12

George Beto managerial style garnered him the what nickname from the prisoners?

A) "Hard Time George"
B) "Walking George"
C) "No Show George"
D) "Gentle George"

Question 13

George Beto was a professor of criminology at

A) The University of Texas
B) Texas Tech University
C) Southern Methodist University
D) Sam Houston State University

Question 14

The idea, as set down by Wilson and McLaren in Police Administration, that no more police units or personnel should be placed under the direct control of one person than he or she is able to manage is the concept of

A) unity of command
B) span of control
C) chain of command
D) none of the above

Question 15

Wilson and McLaren believed that tasks should be grouped together in one or more units under the control of one person. These tasks could be divided according to

A) similarity in purpose, method, or clientele
B) the time
C) the place of their performance
D) all of the above

Question 16

When reading an organizational chart which of the following is true?

A) solid lines represent communications and coordination channels
B) solid lines represent command and supervisory relationships
C) dashed or dotted lines represent command and supervisory relationships
D) the box representing the police chief should be unconnected

Question 17

If a state drug unit is placed under the direction of The Drug Enforcement Agency for a combined task force, the DEA would be said to have

A) operational control
B) span of control
C) lack of control
D) none of the above

Question 18

A _______ officer who is an official of one agency but is assigned to work with another agency serves as

A) clerical support
B) records support
C) dispatch
D) liaison

Question 19

Henry Mintzberg identifies the top leadership and management team of an organization as the

A) apex
B) techno-structure
C) operating core
D) support staff

Question 20

A police district would be an example of

A) temporal division of labor
B) spatial division of labor
C) functional division of labor
D) none of the above

Question 21

Police shift work would be an example of

A) temporal division of labor
B) spatial division of labor
C) functional division of labor
D) none of the above

Question 22

Most modern criminal justice agencies are bureaucracies

Question 23

Max Weber was the first to recognize the key features of the modern bureaucracy

Question 24

Max Weber was an English mathematician

Question 25

Max Weber's "ideal type" of bureaucracy advocated merit hiring

Question 26

Elliot Jacques is a harsh critic of hierarchal structure

Question 27

James Q. Wilson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Question 28

Arthur Vanderbilt was a correctional reformer

Question 29

Orlando Wilson created the School of Criminology at U.C. Berkeley

Question 30

Katherine Bement Davis was the first woman to be appointed New York City Correction Commissioner

Question 31

George Beto reformed prisons in California

Question 32

In Police Administration, Wilson and McLaren advocate that police departments the creation of specialized units regardless of departmental circumstances

Question 33

Wilson and McLaren believed in the principle of unity of command

Question 34

Another term for an organization chart is a "block chart"

Question 35

It is a good idea to represent fictional relationships on an organizational chart

Question 36

Boxes represent an office or department on an organizational chart

Question 37

A dotted-line on an organizational chart can represent operational control

Question 38

Liaison relationships are always temporary

Question 39

All employees of a police department are "officers"

Question 40

A crime prevention unit would represent a functional division of labor

Question 41

Henry Mintzberg identifies the specialists in the applications of complex technologies as the techno-structure

Question 42

Tight span of control exists when a supervisor oversees a large number of subordinates

Question 43

Describe why Max Weber thought that bureaucracy was the solution to many of the problems of human organization. What are some of the modern criticisms of government bureaucracies. Are they legitimate in your estimation?

Question 44

How have the eleven principles of organization been applied in the modern police department. Are they applicable to all public service organizations? How does an organizational chart help to depict organizational principles?

Question 45

Division of labor must be applied in a police department. In what three ways is labor divided? Be sure to use police examples in your answer.

Question 46

Mayo, Roethlisberger and their Harvard research team identified four "social sentiments" among the workers in the Hawthorne Studies which controlled work output. They are:

Question 47

Identify five of the characteristics of modern bureaucracies as described by Max Weber:

Question 48

According to Henry Mintzberg, the "five basic parts of the organization" are: