CCJS 100 EXAM #1
How do law enforcement prepare for threats against the nation? - ANSWERS--law
enforcement intelligence: increase in info provided and shared
-Fusion centers: share info
-Patriot act
-Critical infrastructures
Critical infrastructures - ANSWERS-Backbone for nations economy, security,
health (power, transportation, communication systems
Preparations: develop business continuity plans, generators, durable building
materials
Major issues with private policing - ANSWERS-?? in book
-Private security are more likely to interact in emergency situations
-failure to do so has serious consequences
-lack of coordination between public and private
-No systematic effort to train them, variation in knowledge, don't always need a
license
Insanity tests - ANSWERS-M'Naghten rule
Irresistable impulse rule
,The Durham Rule
Model Penal Code's substantial capacity test
Comprehensive crime control act
Comprehensive crime control act - ANSWERS-Unable, as a result of a mental
disease, to understand nature of their acts
Model Penal Code's substantial capacity test - ANSWERS--Insanity plea in
Maryland
-Burden on defendant
-Insanity must have come from mental illness
-evidence is artificial
This legislative act directed the police to prevent crime without using repressive
force and show efficeineyy through the absence of crime and disorder -
ANSWERS-Metropolitan act
Theory that says crime is learned through the people you associate with -
ANSWERS-Differential Association
This patrol strategy assigns priorities to calls for service, based on factors such as
timing and injury - ANSWERS-Differential Response
, This data is collected by law enforcement agencies across the country and
centralized by the FBI - ANSWERS-Uniform Crime Reports
Two models that compete to define the goals and procedures of the criminal
justice system - ANSWERS-Crime control and due process
This policing strategy calls for officers to maintain order and reduce fear of crime
by focusing on minor crime and public order - ANSWERS-Broken Windows policing
___ type of theory posits that genetic dispositions may make you more likely to
commit crime - ANSWERS-Biological theory
Criminal laws cannot be prosecuted when acts are committed prior to existence
of such a law - ANSWERS-Ex-post facto law
Rob store because someone kidnapped brother and made you - ANSWERS-Duress
Term describes offense in which no harm was done such as conspiracy to commit
murder - ANSWERS-Inchoate/ incomplete offenses (ch 3)
Since 9/11, the greatest law enforcement responsibilities occurs at which level -
ANSWERS-Local
Percentage of criminal cases that result through plea bargains - ANSWERS-90%
How do law enforcement prepare for threats against the nation? - ANSWERS--law
enforcement intelligence: increase in info provided and shared
-Fusion centers: share info
-Patriot act
-Critical infrastructures
Critical infrastructures - ANSWERS-Backbone for nations economy, security,
health (power, transportation, communication systems
Preparations: develop business continuity plans, generators, durable building
materials
Major issues with private policing - ANSWERS-?? in book
-Private security are more likely to interact in emergency situations
-failure to do so has serious consequences
-lack of coordination between public and private
-No systematic effort to train them, variation in knowledge, don't always need a
license
Insanity tests - ANSWERS-M'Naghten rule
Irresistable impulse rule
,The Durham Rule
Model Penal Code's substantial capacity test
Comprehensive crime control act
Comprehensive crime control act - ANSWERS-Unable, as a result of a mental
disease, to understand nature of their acts
Model Penal Code's substantial capacity test - ANSWERS--Insanity plea in
Maryland
-Burden on defendant
-Insanity must have come from mental illness
-evidence is artificial
This legislative act directed the police to prevent crime without using repressive
force and show efficeineyy through the absence of crime and disorder -
ANSWERS-Metropolitan act
Theory that says crime is learned through the people you associate with -
ANSWERS-Differential Association
This patrol strategy assigns priorities to calls for service, based on factors such as
timing and injury - ANSWERS-Differential Response
, This data is collected by law enforcement agencies across the country and
centralized by the FBI - ANSWERS-Uniform Crime Reports
Two models that compete to define the goals and procedures of the criminal
justice system - ANSWERS-Crime control and due process
This policing strategy calls for officers to maintain order and reduce fear of crime
by focusing on minor crime and public order - ANSWERS-Broken Windows policing
___ type of theory posits that genetic dispositions may make you more likely to
commit crime - ANSWERS-Biological theory
Criminal laws cannot be prosecuted when acts are committed prior to existence
of such a law - ANSWERS-Ex-post facto law
Rob store because someone kidnapped brother and made you - ANSWERS-Duress
Term describes offense in which no harm was done such as conspiracy to commit
murder - ANSWERS-Inchoate/ incomplete offenses (ch 3)
Since 9/11, the greatest law enforcement responsibilities occurs at which level -
ANSWERS-Local
Percentage of criminal cases that result through plea bargains - ANSWERS-90%
