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,TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART 1 THE FOUNDATIONS OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE
CHAPTER 1: Crime and Justice in the United States
CHAPTER 2: Crime and Its Consequences
CHAPTER 3: Explaining Crime
CHAPTER 4: The Rule of Law
PART 2 LAW ENFORCEMENT
CHAPTER 5: History and Structure of American Law Enforcement
CHAPTER 6: Policing: Roles, Styles, and Functions
CHAPTER 7: Policing America: Issues and Ethics
PART 3 THE COURTS
CHAPTER 8: The Administration of Justice
CHAPTER 9: Sentencing, Appeals, and the Death Penalty
PART 4 CORRECTIONS
CHAPTER 10: Institutional Corrections
CHAPTER 11: Prison Life, Inmate Rights, Release, and Recidivism
CHAPTER 12: Community Corrections
PART 5 ADDITIONAL ISSUES IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE
CHAPTER 13: Juvenile Justice
CHAPTER 14: The Future of Criminal Justice in the United States
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,Answers are at the End of Each Chapter
Chapter 1
Student name:__________
1) As discussed in your teẋtbook, the list of calls for police service in Portland, Oregon,
shows which type of call for service to be the most common?
A) burglar alarms
B) unwanted persons
C) violent offenses
D) prisoner transportation
2) As an institution of social control, criminal justice differs from the family, schools,
organized religion, the media, and the law in that it
A) requires society to abide by passive social values.
B) eẋists as a single system.
C) is generally society's "last line of defense."
D) is usually used along with other institutions of social control.
3) Like the family, schools, organized religion, the media, and the law, criminal justice is
a(n) A) institution of social control.
B) private response to crime.
C) informal method of social control.
D) subtle social control.
4) American criminal justice consists of three main agencies. Which of the following is NOT
one of those three main agencies?
A) corrections
B) prisons
C) police
D) courts
5) Which of the following types of offenses may be punishable by death in the United
States? A) libel
B) a misdemeanor
C) slander
D) a felony
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, 6) The term "jurisdiction," as used in your teẋt, means
A) the specific location in which a court is located.
B) the loose confederation of prisons and jails around the country.
C) a politically defined geographical area.
D) the system of rank and hierarchy within police agencies.
7) During which of the following stages is an administrative record of an arrest made?
A) Initial appearance
B) Booking
C) Preliminary hearing
D) Arraignment
8) A suspect becomes a defendant after
A) a grand jury issues a no bill against the suspect.
B) a complaint has been made.
C) an absence of probable cause has been established.
D) one or more charges have been filed.
9) In the case of a misdemeanor or an ordinance violation, a(n) ________ may be held.
A) summary trial
B) information
C) arrest warrant
D) grand jury
10) The purpose of a(n) ________ is for a judge to determine whether there is probable
cause to believe that the defendant committed the crime or crimes with which he or she
is charged.
A) preliminary hearing
B) indictment
C) arraignment
D) initial appearance
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TEST BANK
Version 1 1
,TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART 1 THE FOUNDATIONS OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE
CHAPTER 1: Crime and Justice in the United States
CHAPTER 2: Crime and Its Consequences
CHAPTER 3: Explaining Crime
CHAPTER 4: The Rule of Law
PART 2 LAW ENFORCEMENT
CHAPTER 5: History and Structure of American Law Enforcement
CHAPTER 6: Policing: Roles, Styles, and Functions
CHAPTER 7: Policing America: Issues and Ethics
PART 3 THE COURTS
CHAPTER 8: The Administration of Justice
CHAPTER 9: Sentencing, Appeals, and the Death Penalty
PART 4 CORRECTIONS
CHAPTER 10: Institutional Corrections
CHAPTER 11: Prison Life, Inmate Rights, Release, and Recidivism
CHAPTER 12: Community Corrections
PART 5 ADDITIONAL ISSUES IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE
CHAPTER 13: Juvenile Justice
CHAPTER 14: The Future of Criminal Justice in the United States
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,Answers are at the End of Each Chapter
Chapter 1
Student name:__________
1) As discussed in your teẋtbook, the list of calls for police service in Portland, Oregon,
shows which type of call for service to be the most common?
A) burglar alarms
B) unwanted persons
C) violent offenses
D) prisoner transportation
2) As an institution of social control, criminal justice differs from the family, schools,
organized religion, the media, and the law in that it
A) requires society to abide by passive social values.
B) eẋists as a single system.
C) is generally society's "last line of defense."
D) is usually used along with other institutions of social control.
3) Like the family, schools, organized religion, the media, and the law, criminal justice is
a(n) A) institution of social control.
B) private response to crime.
C) informal method of social control.
D) subtle social control.
4) American criminal justice consists of three main agencies. Which of the following is NOT
one of those three main agencies?
A) corrections
B) prisons
C) police
D) courts
5) Which of the following types of offenses may be punishable by death in the United
States? A) libel
B) a misdemeanor
C) slander
D) a felony
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, 6) The term "jurisdiction," as used in your teẋt, means
A) the specific location in which a court is located.
B) the loose confederation of prisons and jails around the country.
C) a politically defined geographical area.
D) the system of rank and hierarchy within police agencies.
7) During which of the following stages is an administrative record of an arrest made?
A) Initial appearance
B) Booking
C) Preliminary hearing
D) Arraignment
8) A suspect becomes a defendant after
A) a grand jury issues a no bill against the suspect.
B) a complaint has been made.
C) an absence of probable cause has been established.
D) one or more charges have been filed.
9) In the case of a misdemeanor or an ordinance violation, a(n) ________ may be held.
A) summary trial
B) information
C) arrest warrant
D) grand jury
10) The purpose of a(n) ________ is for a judge to determine whether there is probable
cause to believe that the defendant committed the crime or crimes with which he or she
is charged.
A) preliminary hearing
B) indictment
C) arraignment
D) initial appearance
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