CRIMINAL JUSTICE COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS
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✔✔T/F In a civil case, the burden of proof on the party seeking damages is less than in
a criminal matter. - ✔✔True
✔✔Civil or criminal law?
Robbery - ✔✔Criminal law
✔✔Civil or criminal law?
Divorce - ✔✔Civil law
✔✔Substantive law - ✔✔describes criminal acts
✔✔Procedural law - ✔✔establishes the procedures and mechanisms for processing
criminal cases
✔✔The mechanisms for processing criminal cases are established by ______. -
✔✔Procedural law
✔✔SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Which of the following describes a misdemeanor?
A. a serious criminal offense
B. a less serious criminal offense
C. typically punishable with a sentence of less than a year in prison or a fine
D. typically punishable with a sentence of more than a year in prison or death - ✔✔B &
C
✔✔SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Which of the following describes a felony?
A. a serious criminal offense
B. a less serious criminal offense
C. typically punishable with a sentence of less than a year in prison or a fine
D. typically punishable with a sentence of more than a year in prison or death - ✔✔A &
D
✔✔The two major, original schools of criminological thought are ______ and positivist. -
✔✔Classical
✔✔T/F Studying criminology can be helpful to understand why criminals do what they
do, but it can't help determine ways to deter and stop crime from happening in the first
place. - ✔✔False
, ✔✔A person who believes that the criminal justice system primarily serves the interests
of the dominant groups is likely aligned with which criminology theory? - ✔✔social
conflict
✔✔T/F Social conflict theorists have linked capitalism to high crime rates. - ✔✔True
✔✔Feminist theorists Freda Adler and Rita Simon proposed that increases in economic
opportunity for women in the 1970s would lead to increases in ______. - ✔✔rates of
criminal behavior by women
✔✔Women commit ______ crimes compared with their male counterparts. - ✔✔Far
Fewer
✔✔Environmental criminal theory assumes ______ is the root cause of crime. -
✔✔opportunity
✔✔T/F Environmental criminology theory is also called crime science. - ✔✔True
✔✔Which crime is most closely associated with contemporary urban violence in the
United States? - ✔✔Carjacking
✔✔T/F Armed robbery involves at least an offender and a person present as a victim. -
✔✔True
✔✔Examining one's duty to act, rather than the consequences of one's actions, is an
area of study for ______ ethics. - ✔✔deontological
✔✔A situation in which one commits an unethical act for the greater good—for example,
when a police officer bends the rules to that would otherwise require them to capture a
serious offender—is known as ______. - ✔✔noble cause corruption
✔✔Rules or values that spell out "right" or "correct" human conduct, especially in a
professional capacity, are known as ______. - ✔✔ethics
✔✔absolute ethics - ✔✔The type of ethics where there are only two sides—good or
bad, black or white; some examples would be unethical behaviors such as bribery,
extortion, excessive force, and perjury, which nearly everyone would agree are
unacceptable for criminal justice personnel
✔✔relative ethics - ✔✔The "gray" area of ethics that is not so clear-cut, such as
releasing a serious offender in order to use him later as an informant
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✔✔T/F In a civil case, the burden of proof on the party seeking damages is less than in
a criminal matter. - ✔✔True
✔✔Civil or criminal law?
Robbery - ✔✔Criminal law
✔✔Civil or criminal law?
Divorce - ✔✔Civil law
✔✔Substantive law - ✔✔describes criminal acts
✔✔Procedural law - ✔✔establishes the procedures and mechanisms for processing
criminal cases
✔✔The mechanisms for processing criminal cases are established by ______. -
✔✔Procedural law
✔✔SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Which of the following describes a misdemeanor?
A. a serious criminal offense
B. a less serious criminal offense
C. typically punishable with a sentence of less than a year in prison or a fine
D. typically punishable with a sentence of more than a year in prison or death - ✔✔B &
C
✔✔SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Which of the following describes a felony?
A. a serious criminal offense
B. a less serious criminal offense
C. typically punishable with a sentence of less than a year in prison or a fine
D. typically punishable with a sentence of more than a year in prison or death - ✔✔A &
D
✔✔The two major, original schools of criminological thought are ______ and positivist. -
✔✔Classical
✔✔T/F Studying criminology can be helpful to understand why criminals do what they
do, but it can't help determine ways to deter and stop crime from happening in the first
place. - ✔✔False
, ✔✔A person who believes that the criminal justice system primarily serves the interests
of the dominant groups is likely aligned with which criminology theory? - ✔✔social
conflict
✔✔T/F Social conflict theorists have linked capitalism to high crime rates. - ✔✔True
✔✔Feminist theorists Freda Adler and Rita Simon proposed that increases in economic
opportunity for women in the 1970s would lead to increases in ______. - ✔✔rates of
criminal behavior by women
✔✔Women commit ______ crimes compared with their male counterparts. - ✔✔Far
Fewer
✔✔Environmental criminal theory assumes ______ is the root cause of crime. -
✔✔opportunity
✔✔T/F Environmental criminology theory is also called crime science. - ✔✔True
✔✔Which crime is most closely associated with contemporary urban violence in the
United States? - ✔✔Carjacking
✔✔T/F Armed robbery involves at least an offender and a person present as a victim. -
✔✔True
✔✔Examining one's duty to act, rather than the consequences of one's actions, is an
area of study for ______ ethics. - ✔✔deontological
✔✔A situation in which one commits an unethical act for the greater good—for example,
when a police officer bends the rules to that would otherwise require them to capture a
serious offender—is known as ______. - ✔✔noble cause corruption
✔✔Rules or values that spell out "right" or "correct" human conduct, especially in a
professional capacity, are known as ______. - ✔✔ethics
✔✔absolute ethics - ✔✔The type of ethics where there are only two sides—good or
bad, black or white; some examples would be unethical behaviors such as bribery,
extortion, excessive force, and perjury, which nearly everyone would agree are
unacceptable for criminal justice personnel
✔✔relative ethics - ✔✔The "gray" area of ethics that is not so clear-cut, such as
releasing a serious offender in order to use him later as an informant
