CCJS 100 EXAM #1 OFFICIAL EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS.
5 factors of police discretion - correct answer -1. Nature of crime
2. Relationship between alleged criminal and the victim
(sister/brother)
3. Relationship between police and criminal or victim
4. Race, ethnicity, gender, class
5. Department policy
Grass eaters - correct answer -Accept $$ and bribes
Meat eaters - correct answer -Police officer who participates in
widespread corruption such as drug smuggling, money laundering
Different ways to hold police accountable for actions - correct
answer -Internal affairs unit:ppl reluctant to go to police about
police
Civilian Review Board: don't have power for investigation
Standards and accreditation: rules for officers
Civil law suits: sue police
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Reactive police response - correct answer -Call police and they
respond
Proactive police response - correct answer -Federal level:
prevent, police already there
Clearance rates - correct answer -Did department solve crime?
How do law enforcement prepare for threats against the nation? -
correct answer --law enforcement intelligence: increase in info
provided and shared
-Fusion centers: share info
-Patriot act
-Critical infrastructures
Critical infrastructures - correct answer -Backbone for nations
economy, security, health (power, transportation, communication
systems
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Preparations: develop business continuity plans, generators,
durable building materials
Major issues with private policing - correct answer -?? 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 - correct answer -M'Naghten rule
Irresistable impulse rule
The Durham Rule
Model Penal Code's substantial capacity test
Comprehensive crime control act
Comprehensive crime control act - correct answer -Unable, as a
result of a mental disease, to understand nature of their acts