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TEST BANK
LAW AND SOCIETY
3RD EDITION
CHAPTER NO. 01: AN INTRODUCTION TO LAW AND SOCIETY

TRUE/FALSE

1. The United Nations can use their own military in order to sanction those states that
violate international law.
Ans: F
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: International Law
Difficulty Level: Easy


2. “Black letter law” is referred to the study of law that looks at all the outside factors that
influence how legal cases play out.
Ans: F
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Study of Legal Doctrine
Difficulty Level: Medium


3. Roscoe Pound is the theorist most closely identified with the consensus perspective.
Ans: T
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: A Consensus Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy


4. In Islamic criminal procedure, you are allowed an appeal.
Ans: F
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Prosecuting Criminal Offenses

,Difficulty Level: Medium


5. Law and Society takes on internal approaches to law and focuses on court cases,
statutes, and constitutional provision and aims to provide an answer to a legal problem.
Ans: F
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Study of Law and Society
Difficulty Level: Medium


6. Weber and Hoebel both fail to account for an individuals’ adherence to rules based
on a sense of duty, tradition, and obligation even in the absence of external threat.
Ans: T
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Law, Coercion, and Specialization
Difficulty Level: Medium


7. In Islamic Law, two women witnesses are equal to one male witness.
Ans: T
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Prosecuting Criminal Offenses
Difficulty Level: Easy


8. Private law includes the areas of contract, torts, and property.
Ans: T
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Study of Legal Doctrine
Difficulty Level: Easy


9. Jurisprudence looks at the underlying philosophical questions of law.
Ans: T
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Study of Jurisprudence

,Difficulty Level: Easy


10. Courts are particularly concerned with protecting national security during wartime.
Ans: T
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Study of Law and Society
Difficulty Level: Medium


11. The conflict perspective views society as based on shared values.
Ans: F
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: A Consensus Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy


12. Pound identified six “conflict perspectives” that are promoted by law and which are
essential to the maintenance of a secure and stable society.
Ans: F
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: A Consensus Perspective
Difficulty Level: Medium


13. William Chambliss’s essay on the Irish law of social deviance is a classic study of
the role of the law in serving the interests of dominant economic groups.
Ans: F
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: A Conflict Perspective
Difficulty Level: Medium


14. Dominant groups use the police and other social control agencies to enforce the
laws that promote their self-interest and values and is one of the propositions that
underlie the conflict theory.
Ans: T

, Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: A Conflict Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy


15. In Discriminatory Justice, individuals in similar situations should be treated in a
similar fashion.
Ans: F
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Definitions of Justice
Difficulty Level: Medium


16. The embodiment of custom into law is referred to as reinstitutionalization.
Ans: T
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Law and Custom
Difficulty Level: Easy


17. Most definitions of law require law to possess a moral dimension.
Ans: F
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Summary of Definitions of Law
Difficulty Level: Easy


18. Under Emperor Justinian, justice was defined as the distribution of equal amounts to
those who are equal.
Ans: F
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Definitions of Justice
Difficulty Level: Easy