Crime and Intelligence Analysis: An Integrated Real-Time Approach
BY GLENN GRANA, JAMES WINDELL
2nd Edition
, Test Bank for Crime and Intelligence
Analysis An Integrated Real-Time
Approach, 2e Glenn Grana, James
Windell (All Chapters)
Chapter One: The Crime Problem
True & False items:
1. Crime in generally considered to be a problem in the U.S. (T)
2. President Lyndon Johnson appointed a commission to study crime in
1965. (T)
3. Most Americans believe crime is declining. (F)
4. America is the only country that has a crime problem. (F)
5. Each society has had to analyze the crime problem and develop a
theory that would lead to the implementation of laws or policies that
would attempt to contain or decrease the crime problem. (T)
6. Crime and intelligence analysis typically takes the approach of
examining the offenders’ behaviour. (T)
7. The term intelligence refers to the data available to, collected by, or
disseminated through the tactical crime analyst. (T)
8. A real-time setting or a real-time crime center refers to the location
where many tactical crime analysts play video games. (F)
9. The term Intelligence analysis refers to what the tactical crime
analyst does in his or her position. (T)
10. An Intelligence Analyst continually evaluates and analyzes data in
order to provide the most useful possible information to police
officers. (T)
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,Multiple Choice items:
11. We know that criminal justice systems were in place in some
countries several thousand years ago. All of the following illustrate this
except for:
A. Hammurabi established a criminal code in Mesopotamia in
2100 BC
B. In the sixth century BC, the Athenians created a
system of “popular courts”
C. The Romans had Twelve Tables, which codified the laws, in
452 AD
D. In America, President Johnson established a crime
commission in 1965 *
12. Today, the U.S. has an evolved criminal justice system that is:
A. Multi-layered and sophisticated *
B. Crude and poorly developed
C. Barbaric and designed to harm children
D. Sophisticated in its evil intent
13. Cesare Beccaria is known as:
A. The man who invented juvenile courts
B. The founder of classical criminology *
C. The who started The Humane Society and Child
Protection agency
D. The founder of capital punishment
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, 14. Beccaria’s philosophy, which is spelled out in his book, On Crimes
and Punishment, was that:
A. People are irrational and deserve harsh punishments
B. People have mental health problems and should be
exempt from laws and punishments
C. People are rational and they do things that bring
them pleasure; they avoid doing things which bring
them pain *
D. People learn best when they are threatened with long
punishments and hard labor
15. According to Cesare Beccaria, since people are rational and
think before acting, punishment for criminal behavior should be:
A. Certain and swift with appropriate duration and intensity
*
B. Arbitrary and harsh
C. Of sufficient duration to teach the offender a valuable
lesson
D. Decided by judges who are experts at being rational
16. Since Beccaria’s time, of theories of criminology and
criminal behavior have been developed.
A. About 10
B. Thousands
C. Two or three
D. Dozens *
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