MCJA PHASE 1 STUDY EXAMS GUIDE ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔In addition to deadly force, which of the following uses of physical force require
reporting to the Attorney General's Office?
The use of physical force that in fact causes serious bodily injury.
Ramming an occupied vehicle.
A roadblock set up to terminate a vehicular pursuit that results in death or bodily injury.
All of the above. - ✔✔All of the above.
✔✔One unfortunate consequence of the stereotype of "real" sexual assault is that it can
cause law enforcement officers to:
Be overly empathetic with the victim.
Avoid responding to any reports of sexual assault.
Question the credibility of victims who describe an assault that does not fit the
stereotype.
Risk both their lives and the lives of others when responding to such an emergency call
for service. - ✔✔Question the credibility of victims who describe an assault that does
not fit the stereotype.
✔✔The THREE stages that victims may experience in reaction to sexual assault are:
(Select the THREE that apply.)
Acute Trauma
Outward Adjustment
Integration
Suspended Belief
Resolution - ✔✔Acute Trauma
Outward Adjustment
Integration
✔✔Law enforcement officers must always keep in mind that: (Select all that apply.)
,Most victims of sexual assault do report the assault to the police - and that most victims
who do report, typically do so immediately.
Sexual assault is a frequent occurrence, and involves a very wide range of people and
circumstances. - ✔✔Sexual assault is a frequent occurrence, and involves a very wide
range of people and circumstances.
✔✔In the _______________ stage of response to sexual assault, victims emerge with a
better understanding of the sexual assault and its effect on their life; victims rebuild their
lives in a way that takes into account this traumatic experience, its impact, and it's
meaning.
Acute Trauma
Suspended Belief
Outward Adjustment
Integration - ✔✔Integration
✔✔It is imperative that the responding officer be patient regarding any delayed reporting
by the victim because ________________. (Select all that apply.)
Many state laws allow victims to report to law enforcement up to several years after the
sexual assault.
Most victims delay reporting their assault to law enforcement - if they report at all.
Officers must be sensitive to the fact that questions about the delay may cause victims
to feel that the officer is blaming them or doesn't believe their claims. - ✔✔Many state
laws allow victims to report to law enforcement up to several years after the sexual
assault.
Most victims delay reporting their assault to law enforcement - if they report at all.
Officers must be sensitive to the fact that questions about the delay may cause victims
to feel that the officer is blaming them or doesn't believe their claims.
✔✔Symptoms often observed during the _________ stage of response to sexual
assault include but are not limited to psychological disorganization, disorientation,
dissociation, and even psychogenic amnesia including the fact that victims may have
nightmares, flashbacks, sleep and appetite disturbances and difficulty concentrating.
Acute Trauma
Resolution
Outward Adjustment
Integration - ✔✔Acute Trauma
✔✔Standard elements of the preliminary investigation of a case involving sexual assault
include all of the following, EXCEPT:
,Assess the victim's need for emergency medical care.
Establish whether a crime has been committed.
Establish whether the suspect is on-scene.
Conduct multiple interviews of the victim. - ✔✔Conduct multiple interviews of the victim.
✔✔In the ___________ stage of response to sexual assault, victims may respond by
trying to deny that the sexual assault happened or that it had a significant impact on
them.
Acute Trauma
Suspended Belief
Outward Adjustment
Integration - ✔✔Outward Adjustment
✔✔The investigative approach to a delayed report includes all of the following,
EXCEPT:
Question the victim about anything that might corroborate the victim's report.
Listen more carefully to witnesses and others to whom the victim may have talked to
about the assault than to the victim.
Determine whom the victim first told about the sexual assault.
Evaluate the need for a search warrant of the suspect's home if that is the location of
the assault. - ✔✔Listen more carefully to witnesses and others to whom the victim may
have talked to about the assault than to the victim.
✔✔During the preliminary investigation, obtain the information necessary to establish
the _____________________ needed to confirm that the victim was sexually assaulted.
Forensic evidence.
Evidence of a physical assault.
A clear, direct description of what occurred.
Elements of the crime. - ✔✔Elements of the crime.
✔✔Law enforcement reports may be used for which of the following purposes: (Select
all that apply.)
To assist with prosecution.
To gather statistics.
To evaluate the officer's performance. - ✔✔To assist with prosecution.
To gather statistics.
To evaluate the officer's performance.
✔✔A law enforcement officer's report may be read by other officers, prosecuting and
defense attorneys, judges, and which of the following?
, The Attorney General's Office
Other state agencies
School departments
All of the above - ✔✔All of the above
✔✔Officers should retain their field notebooks in a secure location as these notes may
be ____________ at some future date.
Searched
Subpoenaed
Stolen
Thrown away - ✔✔Subpoenaed
✔✔In order to facilitate field note-taking, and to provide consistency in questions and
content, officers may use a ____________________ when investigating certain
offenses such as an impaired driving violation, criminal trespass or theft complaint.
Template or checklist.
Digital audio recorder.
Video recorder.
None of the above. - ✔✔Template or checklist.
✔✔Effective and professional law enforcement reports include which of the following
elements:
Any facts unfavorable to the disposition of the case.
Any facts that relate to the elements of the crime committed.
The basis for the officer's knowledge.
All of the above. - ✔✔All of the above.
✔✔Reports must include information about each of the following EXCEPT:
Evidence.
Elements of the crime.
Requisite state of mind.
Officer's basis of knowledge. - ✔✔Requisite state of mind.
✔✔What details belong in the opening of a law enforcement report? (Select all that
apply.)
How the officer came to be involved
The action taken by the officer at the end of the investigation
The date and time the officer responded - ✔✔How the officer came to be involved
The date and time the officer responded
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔In addition to deadly force, which of the following uses of physical force require
reporting to the Attorney General's Office?
The use of physical force that in fact causes serious bodily injury.
Ramming an occupied vehicle.
A roadblock set up to terminate a vehicular pursuit that results in death or bodily injury.
All of the above. - ✔✔All of the above.
✔✔One unfortunate consequence of the stereotype of "real" sexual assault is that it can
cause law enforcement officers to:
Be overly empathetic with the victim.
Avoid responding to any reports of sexual assault.
Question the credibility of victims who describe an assault that does not fit the
stereotype.
Risk both their lives and the lives of others when responding to such an emergency call
for service. - ✔✔Question the credibility of victims who describe an assault that does
not fit the stereotype.
✔✔The THREE stages that victims may experience in reaction to sexual assault are:
(Select the THREE that apply.)
Acute Trauma
Outward Adjustment
Integration
Suspended Belief
Resolution - ✔✔Acute Trauma
Outward Adjustment
Integration
✔✔Law enforcement officers must always keep in mind that: (Select all that apply.)
,Most victims of sexual assault do report the assault to the police - and that most victims
who do report, typically do so immediately.
Sexual assault is a frequent occurrence, and involves a very wide range of people and
circumstances. - ✔✔Sexual assault is a frequent occurrence, and involves a very wide
range of people and circumstances.
✔✔In the _______________ stage of response to sexual assault, victims emerge with a
better understanding of the sexual assault and its effect on their life; victims rebuild their
lives in a way that takes into account this traumatic experience, its impact, and it's
meaning.
Acute Trauma
Suspended Belief
Outward Adjustment
Integration - ✔✔Integration
✔✔It is imperative that the responding officer be patient regarding any delayed reporting
by the victim because ________________. (Select all that apply.)
Many state laws allow victims to report to law enforcement up to several years after the
sexual assault.
Most victims delay reporting their assault to law enforcement - if they report at all.
Officers must be sensitive to the fact that questions about the delay may cause victims
to feel that the officer is blaming them or doesn't believe their claims. - ✔✔Many state
laws allow victims to report to law enforcement up to several years after the sexual
assault.
Most victims delay reporting their assault to law enforcement - if they report at all.
Officers must be sensitive to the fact that questions about the delay may cause victims
to feel that the officer is blaming them or doesn't believe their claims.
✔✔Symptoms often observed during the _________ stage of response to sexual
assault include but are not limited to psychological disorganization, disorientation,
dissociation, and even psychogenic amnesia including the fact that victims may have
nightmares, flashbacks, sleep and appetite disturbances and difficulty concentrating.
Acute Trauma
Resolution
Outward Adjustment
Integration - ✔✔Acute Trauma
✔✔Standard elements of the preliminary investigation of a case involving sexual assault
include all of the following, EXCEPT:
,Assess the victim's need for emergency medical care.
Establish whether a crime has been committed.
Establish whether the suspect is on-scene.
Conduct multiple interviews of the victim. - ✔✔Conduct multiple interviews of the victim.
✔✔In the ___________ stage of response to sexual assault, victims may respond by
trying to deny that the sexual assault happened or that it had a significant impact on
them.
Acute Trauma
Suspended Belief
Outward Adjustment
Integration - ✔✔Outward Adjustment
✔✔The investigative approach to a delayed report includes all of the following,
EXCEPT:
Question the victim about anything that might corroborate the victim's report.
Listen more carefully to witnesses and others to whom the victim may have talked to
about the assault than to the victim.
Determine whom the victim first told about the sexual assault.
Evaluate the need for a search warrant of the suspect's home if that is the location of
the assault. - ✔✔Listen more carefully to witnesses and others to whom the victim may
have talked to about the assault than to the victim.
✔✔During the preliminary investigation, obtain the information necessary to establish
the _____________________ needed to confirm that the victim was sexually assaulted.
Forensic evidence.
Evidence of a physical assault.
A clear, direct description of what occurred.
Elements of the crime. - ✔✔Elements of the crime.
✔✔Law enforcement reports may be used for which of the following purposes: (Select
all that apply.)
To assist with prosecution.
To gather statistics.
To evaluate the officer's performance. - ✔✔To assist with prosecution.
To gather statistics.
To evaluate the officer's performance.
✔✔A law enforcement officer's report may be read by other officers, prosecuting and
defense attorneys, judges, and which of the following?
, The Attorney General's Office
Other state agencies
School departments
All of the above - ✔✔All of the above
✔✔Officers should retain their field notebooks in a secure location as these notes may
be ____________ at some future date.
Searched
Subpoenaed
Stolen
Thrown away - ✔✔Subpoenaed
✔✔In order to facilitate field note-taking, and to provide consistency in questions and
content, officers may use a ____________________ when investigating certain
offenses such as an impaired driving violation, criminal trespass or theft complaint.
Template or checklist.
Digital audio recorder.
Video recorder.
None of the above. - ✔✔Template or checklist.
✔✔Effective and professional law enforcement reports include which of the following
elements:
Any facts unfavorable to the disposition of the case.
Any facts that relate to the elements of the crime committed.
The basis for the officer's knowledge.
All of the above. - ✔✔All of the above.
✔✔Reports must include information about each of the following EXCEPT:
Evidence.
Elements of the crime.
Requisite state of mind.
Officer's basis of knowledge. - ✔✔Requisite state of mind.
✔✔What details belong in the opening of a law enforcement report? (Select all that
apply.)
How the officer came to be involved
The action taken by the officer at the end of the investigation
The date and time the officer responded - ✔✔How the officer came to be involved
The date and time the officer responded
