Intro to criminal justice midterm Exam with precise detailed
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answers
Which model below best assumes that the system's components work together harmoniously to
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achieve justice? - ✔✔Consensus model || || || ||
During which step in the pretrial activities does a judicial officer determine if a crime has been
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committed? - ✔✔Preliminary Hearing || || ||
Multiculturalism is often used in conjunction with what other term? - ✔✔Diversity || || || || || || || || || || ||
Which of the following refers to crime fighting strategies that have been scientifically tested and
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are based on social science research? - ✔✔Evidence-based practice
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Which stage in the criminal justice process involves taking pictures and fingerprints of a suspect?
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- ✔✔Booking
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What are the three major components of the Criminal Justice System? - ✔✔Police, Courts,
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Corrections
The rights guaranteed to all members of American society by the U.S. Constitution are
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particularly important to criminal defendants facing formal processing by the criminal justice
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system. These rights are also known as: - ✔✔Individual Rights
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A(n)________ is defined as criminal proceedings: the examination in court of the issues of fact || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
and relevant law in a case for the purpose of convicting or acquitting the defendant. - ✔✔Trial
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One who believes that under certain circumstances involving a criminal threat to public safety, the
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interests of society should take precedence over individual rights is a: - ✔✔Public Order
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Advocate
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A criminal justice perspective model that emphasizes the efficient arrest and conviction of
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criminal offenders is known as: - ✔✔Crime-control model
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The UCR and NIBRS separate crime into which of the following categories? - ✔✔Part 1 & Part 2
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The United States Congress authorized the attorney general to gather and publish the Uniform
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Crime Reports in: - ✔✔1930 || || || ||
Nationally, crime statistics come from two major sources: the Uniform Crime Reporting Program
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(UCR) and: - ✔✔National Crime Victimization Survey of the Bureau of Justice Statistics
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All of the following are Part I violent crime offenses except: - ✔✔Prostitution
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The unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony is defined as: - ✔✔Burglary
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Each of the following offenses falls under the category of larceny except: - ✔✔Shoplifting
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Which of the crime surveys listed below relies on door-to-door surveys for its statistical data? -
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✔✔NCVS
A classification of crimes along a particular dimension, such as legal categories, offender
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motivation, victim behavior, or the characteristics of individual offenders is also known as: -
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✔✔Crime typology ||
The unlawful, intentional inflicting, or attempted or threatened inflicting, of serious injury upon
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the person of another is the crime of: - ✔✔Aggravated assault
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The use of the Internet, e-mail, and other electronic communication technologies to bully another
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person is known as: - ✔✔Cyberstalking
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