2025/2026 SCCJA PRE-ACADEMY BLOCK 3-PREJUDICE AND PERSONALITY, REPORT WRITING, INTERVIEWING, VULNERABLE ADULT, OFFICER SURVIVAL, DRUG ENFORCEMENT, CRIME SCENE AND PHYSICAL EVIDENCE, HAZMAT Q&A 100% PASS

2025/2026 SCCJA PRE-ACADEMY BLOCK 3-PREJUDICE AND PERSONALITY, REPORT WRITING, INTERVIEWING, VULNERABLE ADULT, OFFICER SURVIVAL, DRUG ENFORCEMENT, CRIME SCENE AND PHYSICAL EVIDENCE, HAZMAT Q&A 100% PASS Culture - Answer -a characteristic features of everyday existence shared by people in a place or time; the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations, or the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group Characteristics of culture - Answer -•learned •gives a range of acceptable behaviors•subject to change •can't remain in isolation Prejudice - Answer -A preconceived judgment or opinion, or an adverse opinion or learning formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge; it can be favorable or unfavorable and shows a lack of tolerance Personal prejudice - Answer -when members of another racial or ethnic group are perceived as a threat to one's own interests Group prejudice - Answer -When a person conforms to group norms because it appears that is what is expected Stanford Prison Experiment - Answer -study conducted to investigate the effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard and role playing Brown Eyes, Blue Eyes Experiment - Answer -Study conducted to demonstrate his prejudicial attitudes and intolerance can affect even the youngest of people intolerance - Answer -unwillingness to accept views, beliefs, or behavior that differ from one's own; based on ignorance, indifference, and limited perception ignorance - Answer -lack of knowledge or information indifference - Answer -lack of interest, concern, or sympathy Limited perception - Answer -Perceiving others through a range of limited experiences which ultimately could create stereotyping of an entire groupstereotype - Answer -a generalized (sometimes accurate but often overgeneralized) belief about a group of people 3 ways stereotypes change - Answer -• Bookkeeping-slow adjustment as we learn and adapt to new information • Conversion-old stereotypes are thrown away, usually when there is signification contradictory evidence • Subtyping-new stereotype is created as a sub-classification of the original Hate crime - Answer -criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender's bias against a race, religion, disability, ethnic origin or sexual orientation Wisconsin v. Mitchell - Answer -court upheld statute providing for higher penalties if a criminal selects a victim because of their race, religion, or sexual orientation Arguments for hate crime legislation - Answer -•a victim may suffer more psychological harm •victim may suffer more physical trauma •hate crimes have a wide impact •hate crimes may spark retaliation or community unrest Police response at the scene of a hate crime - Answer -•secure the scene •stabilization the victim •preserve the crime scene•identify criminal evidence •1 officer interview the victim •report crime to supervisor •document thoroughly •determine if probable cause exists for arrest How to determine if a hate crime has been committed - Answer - •perceptions of victim and witnesses •suspect's reflection of bias •any differences between victim and suspect •similar incidents in same or nearby location •whether victim was promoting group allegiance •whether incident was close or coincided with a significant holiday for victim •absence of other motive Reasons hate crime victims may not come forward - Answer -•fear of retaliation •humiliation •lack of support •cultural or language barriers Interview techniques for victims of a hate crime - Answer -•reassure them it is not their fault