How does the federal government select district court judges?
a) a committee of sitting federal judges choses new judges
b) district court judges are elected
c) They are appointed by the US Supreme Court and confirmed by congress
d) they are appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate
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d) they are appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate
Which of the following are the three variables that interact to form a crime triangle?
a) a preventative patrol, an investigation and a follow up
b) a citizen, police and a criminal
c) an urban, a suburban, and a rural location
d) a victim, an offender and a location
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, d) a victim, an offender and a location
Which of the follwoing penal sanctions is used primarily to prevent undesired conduct
and provide retribution
a) punishment
b) restitution
c) regulation
d) treatment
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a) punishment
Defendants can appeal their convictions on legal or constutional grounds. Which of
the following is an example of a constitutional ground on which a defendant may
appeal a conviction
a) mistaken interpretations of law
b) defects in jury selection
c) improper admissions of evidence at trial
d) illegal search and seizure
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d) illegal search and seizure
Which of the follwoing might one expect if the future of law enforcement increasingly
reflects the principles and policies of the crime control model?
a) a greater emphasis on probable cause in detaining suspects
b) broader police discretion
,c) decreases in the length of time a suspect may be detained before being charged
d) more limitations on how the police attempt to combat crime
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b) broader police discretion
Which of the following statement regarding the presentence investigation (PSI) is
true?
a) the PSI report is designed to individualize justice by helping judges structure their
sentencing decisions around an offenders unique circumstances
b) the PSI is generally conducted by the prosecutors office prior to sentencing
c) the main focus of the PSI is to estimate the risk the offender's treatment needs
d) in most cases, judges do not follow the sentencing recommendations made in the
PSI report
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c) the main focus of the PSI is to estimate the risk the offender's treatment
needs
taking people to the hospital, escorting funeral processions, delivering mail for city
officials, or chasing bats out of a callers house are examples of the police duty of
a) law enforcement
b) order maintenance
c) service
d) information gathering
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, c) service
Which of the following focuses on the attempt to return victims, as much as possible,
to their previous state and to make them "whole" again?
a) retribution
b) restoration
c) rehabilitation
d) deterrence
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b) restoration
a(n) ______________________ may be expressed as the number of crimes per unit of population
a) crime index
b) index crime
c) offenses known to the police
d) crime rate
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d) crime rate
American criminal justice consists of three main agencies. Which of the follwoing is
not one of those three main agencies
a) corrections
b) prisons
c) police
d) courts
a) a committee of sitting federal judges choses new judges
b) district court judges are elected
c) They are appointed by the US Supreme Court and confirmed by congress
d) they are appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate
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d) they are appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate
Which of the following are the three variables that interact to form a crime triangle?
a) a preventative patrol, an investigation and a follow up
b) a citizen, police and a criminal
c) an urban, a suburban, and a rural location
d) a victim, an offender and a location
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, d) a victim, an offender and a location
Which of the follwoing penal sanctions is used primarily to prevent undesired conduct
and provide retribution
a) punishment
b) restitution
c) regulation
d) treatment
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a) punishment
Defendants can appeal their convictions on legal or constutional grounds. Which of
the following is an example of a constitutional ground on which a defendant may
appeal a conviction
a) mistaken interpretations of law
b) defects in jury selection
c) improper admissions of evidence at trial
d) illegal search and seizure
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d) illegal search and seizure
Which of the follwoing might one expect if the future of law enforcement increasingly
reflects the principles and policies of the crime control model?
a) a greater emphasis on probable cause in detaining suspects
b) broader police discretion
,c) decreases in the length of time a suspect may be detained before being charged
d) more limitations on how the police attempt to combat crime
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b) broader police discretion
Which of the following statement regarding the presentence investigation (PSI) is
true?
a) the PSI report is designed to individualize justice by helping judges structure their
sentencing decisions around an offenders unique circumstances
b) the PSI is generally conducted by the prosecutors office prior to sentencing
c) the main focus of the PSI is to estimate the risk the offender's treatment needs
d) in most cases, judges do not follow the sentencing recommendations made in the
PSI report
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c) the main focus of the PSI is to estimate the risk the offender's treatment
needs
taking people to the hospital, escorting funeral processions, delivering mail for city
officials, or chasing bats out of a callers house are examples of the police duty of
a) law enforcement
b) order maintenance
c) service
d) information gathering
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, c) service
Which of the following focuses on the attempt to return victims, as much as possible,
to their previous state and to make them "whole" again?
a) retribution
b) restoration
c) rehabilitation
d) deterrence
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b) restoration
a(n) ______________________ may be expressed as the number of crimes per unit of population
a) crime index
b) index crime
c) offenses known to the police
d) crime rate
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d) crime rate
American criminal justice consists of three main agencies. Which of the follwoing is
not one of those three main agencies
a) corrections
b) prisons
c) police
d) courts
