Criminal Justice Defensive Tactics: Techniques, Use of
Force, and Stress Management
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1. Condition white - Correct Answer: Unaware that a threat exist
2. Condition Yellow - Correct Answer: General awareness of possible
threats
3. Condition yellow - Correct Answer: General awareness of possible
threats
4. Condition orange - Correct Answer: Recognition that a threat exists
5. Condition red - Correct Answer: Specific threat identified and
appropriate actions taken
6. Condition black - Correct Answer: Threat mismanaged due to panicked
stress response
,7. Condition black - Correct Answer: Survival stress, functions breakdown,
submission, or freezing, may occur
8. Balance displacement - Correct Answer: is a controlling technique used
to break the subject's balance through the use of leverage principles.
9. Leverage - Correct Answer: Using a great force against a weaker
resistance
10.Pain compliance - Correct Answer: Subject response to a combination of
pain and verbal commands to stop resisting
11.Mechanical compliance - Correct Answer: Officer may gain control over
a subject by applying pressure or leverage on a joint by locking it up so that
no movement of the joint is possible, causing the subject to comply with
verbal direction
12.Joint manipulation - Correct Answer: Officer may gain control over
subject by bending or twisting a joint in a direction that will cause pain or
discomfort to the joint
13.Motor dysfunction - Correct Answer: Officer may gain control over a
subject by using an incapacitation technique that causes temporary
impairment of muscular control
,14.Penetrating strike - Correct Answer: When an officer strikes a muscle so
that the striking object penetrates the muscle and nerves of the target area.
15.Non-verbal cues in subject behavior - Correct Answer: Increased
breathing, clenched fists and quivering hands, reddened or flushed face,
glancing at a target area (target glance)
16.Environmental factors in threat assessment - Correct Answer: Weather,
traffic conditions, terrain, and the presence of animals, bystanders, and
potential weapons.
17.Relative positioning - Correct Answer: Describes where you stand or
position yourself in relation to the subject.
18.Excited delirium - Correct Answer: May overheat easily, be hostile, and
show superhuman strength
19.Reactionary gap - Correct Answer: Distance you must keep between you
and the subject in order to react effectively against a sudden threat
- 6-9 ft if can see hands
20.-25 ft when cannot see hands
21.Danger zone - Correct Answer: Area within the reactionary gap
22.Reaction time principle - Correct Answer: Amount of time it takes for
the brain to process a physical threat and the body to respond
, 23.Evasion - Correct Answer: Simply shifting your body or side stepping to
avoid the attack
24.Redirection - Correct Answer: Using the hands to move the subject
away
25.Touch - Correct Answer: Nonthreatening, noncustodial physical contact
and can be used to support or emphasize a verbal command
26.Pressure points - Correct Answer: Techniques used to control resistant
behavior by using pain compliance
27.Escort - Correct Answer: Position is a technique used to move a subject
from one point to another without using pain compliance it provides
minimal control of the subject through leverage
28.Restraint devices - Correct Answer: Tools designed to temporarily
restrain a subject movements, such as handcuffs
29.search - Correct Answer: Inmates and probationers have a significantly
reduce expectation of privacy, searches by corrections and probation.
Officers are much less limited by fourth amendment concerns.
Force, and Stress Management
Comprehensive Resource To Help You Ace 2026-2027 Exams
Includes Frequently Tested Questions With ELABORATED
100% Correct COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Guaranteed Pass First Attempt!! Current Update!!
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1. Condition white - Correct Answer: Unaware that a threat exist
2. Condition Yellow - Correct Answer: General awareness of possible
threats
3. Condition yellow - Correct Answer: General awareness of possible
threats
4. Condition orange - Correct Answer: Recognition that a threat exists
5. Condition red - Correct Answer: Specific threat identified and
appropriate actions taken
6. Condition black - Correct Answer: Threat mismanaged due to panicked
stress response
,7. Condition black - Correct Answer: Survival stress, functions breakdown,
submission, or freezing, may occur
8. Balance displacement - Correct Answer: is a controlling technique used
to break the subject's balance through the use of leverage principles.
9. Leverage - Correct Answer: Using a great force against a weaker
resistance
10.Pain compliance - Correct Answer: Subject response to a combination of
pain and verbal commands to stop resisting
11.Mechanical compliance - Correct Answer: Officer may gain control over
a subject by applying pressure or leverage on a joint by locking it up so that
no movement of the joint is possible, causing the subject to comply with
verbal direction
12.Joint manipulation - Correct Answer: Officer may gain control over
subject by bending or twisting a joint in a direction that will cause pain or
discomfort to the joint
13.Motor dysfunction - Correct Answer: Officer may gain control over a
subject by using an incapacitation technique that causes temporary
impairment of muscular control
,14.Penetrating strike - Correct Answer: When an officer strikes a muscle so
that the striking object penetrates the muscle and nerves of the target area.
15.Non-verbal cues in subject behavior - Correct Answer: Increased
breathing, clenched fists and quivering hands, reddened or flushed face,
glancing at a target area (target glance)
16.Environmental factors in threat assessment - Correct Answer: Weather,
traffic conditions, terrain, and the presence of animals, bystanders, and
potential weapons.
17.Relative positioning - Correct Answer: Describes where you stand or
position yourself in relation to the subject.
18.Excited delirium - Correct Answer: May overheat easily, be hostile, and
show superhuman strength
19.Reactionary gap - Correct Answer: Distance you must keep between you
and the subject in order to react effectively against a sudden threat
- 6-9 ft if can see hands
20.-25 ft when cannot see hands
21.Danger zone - Correct Answer: Area within the reactionary gap
22.Reaction time principle - Correct Answer: Amount of time it takes for
the brain to process a physical threat and the body to respond
, 23.Evasion - Correct Answer: Simply shifting your body or side stepping to
avoid the attack
24.Redirection - Correct Answer: Using the hands to move the subject
away
25.Touch - Correct Answer: Nonthreatening, noncustodial physical contact
and can be used to support or emphasize a verbal command
26.Pressure points - Correct Answer: Techniques used to control resistant
behavior by using pain compliance
27.Escort - Correct Answer: Position is a technique used to move a subject
from one point to another without using pain compliance it provides
minimal control of the subject through leverage
28.Restraint devices - Correct Answer: Tools designed to temporarily
restrain a subject movements, such as handcuffs
29.search - Correct Answer: Inmates and probationers have a significantly
reduce expectation of privacy, searches by corrections and probation.
Officers are much less limited by fourth amendment concerns.
