Criminal Justice 14e ACADEMIC STUDY MATERIAL
Test Bank Criminal Justice An
Introduction 14th Edition By Frank
Schmalleger
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ACADEMIC STUDY MATERIAL Criminal Justice 14e
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Table of Contents
PART 1: CRIME IN AMERICA
1. What Is Criminal Justice?
2. The Crime Picture
3. Criminal Law
PART 2: POLICING
4. Policing: Agencies and Structure
5. Policing: Purpose and Organization
6. Policing: Legal Aspects
7. Policing: Issues and Challenges
PART 3: ADJUDICATION
8. The Courts: Structure and Participants
9. Pretrial Activities and the Criminal Trial
10. Sentencing
PART 4: CORRECTIONS
11. Probation, Parole, and Reentry
12. Prisons and Jails
13. Prison Life
PART 5: JUVENILE JUSTICE
14. Justice-Involved Youth
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Criminal Justice: An Introduction, 14e (Schmalleger)
Chapter 1 What Is Criminal Justice?
1.1 Multiple Choice Questions
1) Which of the following was associated with the Prohibition years of the early twentieth
century?
A) An increase in street crime
B) A rise in terrorist incidents
C) A wave of organized criminal activity
D) An increased emphasis on individual rights
Answer: C
Page Ref: 4
Objective: Summarize the history of crime in America and corresponding changes in the
American criminal justice system.
Level: Basic
2) As society became more focused on individual rights in the 1960s and 1970s, what happened
to crime in the United States?
A) Reported crime decreased dramatically.
B) Reported crime increased dramatically.
C) Reported crime remained stable.
D) Unreported crime increased dramatically.
Answer: B
Page Ref: 5
Objective: Summarize the history of crime in America and corresponding changes in the
American criminal justice system.
Level: Basic
3) In the 1990s, the perception that crime rates were increasing and that offenders were not being
punished resulted in an increased focus on ________.
A) social justice
B) individual accountability
C) due process
D) the consensus model
Answer: B
Page Ref: 5
Objective: Summarize the history of crime in America and corresponding changes in the
American criminal justice system.
Level: Intermediate
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4) Which of the following would support the protection of personal freedoms and civil rights?
A) Crime-control advocates
B) States'-rights advocates
C) Public-order advocates
D) Individual-rights advocates
Answer: D
Page Ref: 9
Objective: Describe the public-order (crime-control) and individual-rights (due-process)
perspectives of criminal justice, concluding with how the criminal justice system balances the
two perspectives.
Level: Difficult
5) A person who believes that under certain circumstances involving a criminal threat to public
safety, the interests of society should take precedence over individual rights is a(n) ________.
A) due-process advocate
B) individual-rights advocate
C) civil justice advocate
D) public-order advocate
Answer: D
Page Ref: 9
Objective: Describe the public-order (crime-control) and individual-rights (due-process)
perspectives of criminal justice, concluding with how the criminal justice system balances the
two perspectives.
Level: Difficult
6) ________ is an ideal that embraces all aspects of civilized life and is linked to fundamental
notions of fairness and to cultural beliefs about right and wrong.
A) Public order advocacy
B) Vigilante justice
C) Social justice
D) Civil justice
Answer: C
Page Ref: 9
Objective: Explain the relationship of criminal justice to general concepts of equity and
fairness.
Level: Basic
7) Criminal justice is truth in action within the process of ________.
A) administration of justice
B) civil justice
C) social justice
D) civil rights
Answer: A
Page Ref: 10
Objective: Explain the relationship of criminal justice to general concepts of equity and
fairness.
Level: Intermediate
ACADEMIC STUDY MATERIAL Criminal Justice 14e
Test Bank Criminal Justice An
Introduction 14th Edition By Frank
Schmalleger
Test Bank
________________________________
Academic Study Resource
ACADEMIC STUDY MATERIAL Criminal Justice 14e
,Criminal Justice 14e ACADEMIC STUDY MATERIAL
Table of Contents
PART 1: CRIME IN AMERICA
1. What Is Criminal Justice?
2. The Crime Picture
3. Criminal Law
PART 2: POLICING
4. Policing: Agencies and Structure
5. Policing: Purpose and Organization
6. Policing: Legal Aspects
7. Policing: Issues and Challenges
PART 3: ADJUDICATION
8. The Courts: Structure and Participants
9. Pretrial Activities and the Criminal Trial
10. Sentencing
PART 4: CORRECTIONS
11. Probation, Parole, and Reentry
12. Prisons and Jails
13. Prison Life
PART 5: JUVENILE JUSTICE
14. Justice-Involved Youth
ACADEMIC STUDY MATERIAL Criminal Justice 14e
,Criminal Justice 14e ACADEMIC STUDY MATERIAL
Criminal Justice: An Introduction, 14e (Schmalleger)
Chapter 1 What Is Criminal Justice?
1.1 Multiple Choice Questions
1) Which of the following was associated with the Prohibition years of the early twentieth
century?
A) An increase in street crime
B) A rise in terrorist incidents
C) A wave of organized criminal activity
D) An increased emphasis on individual rights
Answer: C
Page Ref: 4
Objective: Summarize the history of crime in America and corresponding changes in the
American criminal justice system.
Level: Basic
2) As society became more focused on individual rights in the 1960s and 1970s, what happened
to crime in the United States?
A) Reported crime decreased dramatically.
B) Reported crime increased dramatically.
C) Reported crime remained stable.
D) Unreported crime increased dramatically.
Answer: B
Page Ref: 5
Objective: Summarize the history of crime in America and corresponding changes in the
American criminal justice system.
Level: Basic
3) In the 1990s, the perception that crime rates were increasing and that offenders were not being
punished resulted in an increased focus on ________.
A) social justice
B) individual accountability
C) due process
D) the consensus model
Answer: B
Page Ref: 5
Objective: Summarize the history of crime in America and corresponding changes in the
American criminal justice system.
Level: Intermediate
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4) Which of the following would support the protection of personal freedoms and civil rights?
A) Crime-control advocates
B) States'-rights advocates
C) Public-order advocates
D) Individual-rights advocates
Answer: D
Page Ref: 9
Objective: Describe the public-order (crime-control) and individual-rights (due-process)
perspectives of criminal justice, concluding with how the criminal justice system balances the
two perspectives.
Level: Difficult
5) A person who believes that under certain circumstances involving a criminal threat to public
safety, the interests of society should take precedence over individual rights is a(n) ________.
A) due-process advocate
B) individual-rights advocate
C) civil justice advocate
D) public-order advocate
Answer: D
Page Ref: 9
Objective: Describe the public-order (crime-control) and individual-rights (due-process)
perspectives of criminal justice, concluding with how the criminal justice system balances the
two perspectives.
Level: Difficult
6) ________ is an ideal that embraces all aspects of civilized life and is linked to fundamental
notions of fairness and to cultural beliefs about right and wrong.
A) Public order advocacy
B) Vigilante justice
C) Social justice
D) Civil justice
Answer: C
Page Ref: 9
Objective: Explain the relationship of criminal justice to general concepts of equity and
fairness.
Level: Basic
7) Criminal justice is truth in action within the process of ________.
A) administration of justice
B) civil justice
C) social justice
D) civil rights
Answer: A
Page Ref: 10
Objective: Explain the relationship of criminal justice to general concepts of equity and
fairness.
Level: Intermediate
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