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Test Bank for
Introduction to Criminal Justice 10e Robert M.
Bohm, Keith N. Haley Chapter 1-14
Answers are at the End of Each Chapter
Chapter 1
Student name:__________
1) As discussed in your textbook, the list of calls for
police service in Portland, Oregon, shows which
type of call for service to be the most common?
A) burglar alarms
B) unwanted persons
C) violent offenses
D) prisoner transportation
2) As an institution of social control, criminal justice
differs from the family, schools, organized
religion, the media, and the law in that it
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, A) requires society to abide by passive social
values.
B) exists as a single system.
C) is generally society's "last line of defense."
D) is usually used along with other institutions
of social control.
3) Like the family, schools, organized religion, the
media, and the law, criminal justice is a(n) A)
institution of social control.
B) private response to crime.
C) informal method of social control.
D) subtle social control.
4) American criminal justice consists of three main
agencies. Which of the following is NOT one of
those three main agencies?
A) corrections
B) prisons
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, C) police
D) courts
5) Which of the following types of offenses may be
punishable by death in the United States? A) libel
B) a misdemeanor
C) slander
D) a felony
6) The term "jurisdiction," as used in your text,
means
A) the specific location in which a court is
located.
B) the loose confederation of prisons and jails
around the country.
C) a politically defined geographical area.
D) the system of rank and hierarchy within
police agencies.
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, 7) During which of the following stages is an
administrative record of an arrest made?
A) Initial appearance
B) Booking
C) Preliminary hearing
D) Arraignment
8) A suspect becomes a defendant after
A) a grand jury issues a no bill against the
suspect.
B) a complaint has been made.
C) an absence of probable cause has been
established.
D) one or more charges have been filed.
9) In the case of a misdemeanor or an ordinance
violation, a(n) ________ may be held.
A) summary trial
B) information
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Test Bank for
Introduction to Criminal Justice 10e Robert M.
Bohm, Keith N. Haley Chapter 1-14
Answers are at the End of Each Chapter
Chapter 1
Student name:__________
1) As discussed in your textbook, the list of calls for
police service in Portland, Oregon, shows which
type of call for service to be the most common?
A) burglar alarms
B) unwanted persons
C) violent offenses
D) prisoner transportation
2) As an institution of social control, criminal justice
differs from the family, schools, organized
religion, the media, and the law in that it
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, A) requires society to abide by passive social
values.
B) exists as a single system.
C) is generally society's "last line of defense."
D) is usually used along with other institutions
of social control.
3) Like the family, schools, organized religion, the
media, and the law, criminal justice is a(n) A)
institution of social control.
B) private response to crime.
C) informal method of social control.
D) subtle social control.
4) American criminal justice consists of three main
agencies. Which of the following is NOT one of
those three main agencies?
A) corrections
B) prisons
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, C) police
D) courts
5) Which of the following types of offenses may be
punishable by death in the United States? A) libel
B) a misdemeanor
C) slander
D) a felony
6) The term "jurisdiction," as used in your text,
means
A) the specific location in which a court is
located.
B) the loose confederation of prisons and jails
around the country.
C) a politically defined geographical area.
D) the system of rank and hierarchy within
police agencies.
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, 7) During which of the following stages is an
administrative record of an arrest made?
A) Initial appearance
B) Booking
C) Preliminary hearing
D) Arraignment
8) A suspect becomes a defendant after
A) a grand jury issues a no bill against the
suspect.
B) a complaint has been made.
C) an absence of probable cause has been
established.
D) one or more charges have been filed.
9) In the case of a misdemeanor or an ordinance
violation, a(n) ________ may be held.
A) summary trial
B) information
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