TEST BANK
Criminal Justice: A Brief Introduction 13th Edition
by Frank Schmalleger
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U
D
YL
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, Table of Content
Chapter 1 What Is Criminal Justice?
Chapter 2 The Crime Picture
Chapter 3 Criminal Law
Chapter 4 Policing: Purpose and Organization
Chapter 5 Policing: Legal Aspects
Chapter 6 Policing: Issues and Challenges
Chapter 7 The Courts
ST
Chapter 8 The Courtroom Work Group and the Criminal Trial
Chapter 9 Sentencing
U
Chapter 10 Probation, Parole, and Reentry
D
Chapter 11 Prisons and Jails
Chapter 12 Prison Life
YL
Chapter 13 Juvenile Justice
AB
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Criminal Justice: A Brief Introduction, 13e (Schmalleger)
Chapter 1 What Is Criminal Justice?
1.1 Multiple Choice Questions
1) Which of the following was associated with the Prohibition years of the early twentieth
century?
A) An increase in street crime
B) A rise in terrorist incidents
C) A wave of organized criminal activity
D) An increased emphasis on individual rights
Answer: C
Page Ref: 3
ST
Objective: Summarize the history of crime in America and corresponding changes in the
American criminal justice system.
Level: Basic
2) As society became more focused on individual rights in the 1960s and 1970s, what happened
to crime in the United States?
U
A) Reported crime decreased dramatically.
B) Reported crime increased dramatically.
C) Reported crime remained stable.
D
D) Unreported crime increased dramatically.
Answer: B
Page Ref: 4
YL
Objective: Summarize the history of crime in America and corresponding changes in the
American criminal justice system.
Level: Basic
3) In the 1990s, the perception that crime rates were increasing and that offenders were not being
punished resulted in an increased focus on .
AB
A) social justice
B) individual accountability
C) due process
D) the consensus model
Answer: B
Page Ref: 4
Objective: Summarize the history of crime in America and corresponding changes in the
American criminal justice system.
Level: Intermediate
147
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4) Which of the following would support the protection of personal freedoms and civil rights?
A) Crime-control advocates
B) States'-rights advocates
C) Public-order advocates
D) Individual-rights advocates
Answer: D
Page Ref: 8
Objective: Describe the public-order (crime-control) and individual-rights (due-process)
perspectives of criminal justice, concluding with how the criminal justice system balances the
two perspectives.
Level: Difficult
5) A person who believes that under certain circumstances involving a criminal threat to public
ST
safety, the interests of society should take precedence over individual rights is a(n) .
A) due-process advocate
B) individual-rights advocate
C) civil justice advocate
D) public-order advocate
Answer: D
U
Page Ref: 8
Objective: Describe the public-order (crime-control) and individual-rights (due-process)
perspectives of criminal justice, concluding with how the criminal justice system balances the
D
two perspectives.
Level: Difficult
YL
6) is an ideal that embraces all aspects of civilized life and is linked to fundamental
notions of fairness and to cultural beliefs about right and wrong.
A) Public order advocacy
B) Vigilante justice
C) Social justice
D) Civil justice
AB
Answer: C
Page Ref: 9
Objective: Explain the relationship of criminal justice to general concepts of equity and fairness.
Level: Basic
7) Criminal justice is truth in action within the process of .
A) administration of justice
B) civil justice
C) social justice
D) civil rights
Answer: A
Page Ref: 9
Objective: Explain the relationship of criminal justice to general concepts of equity and fairness.
Level: Intermediate
148
Criminal Justice: A Brief Introduction 13th Edition
by Frank Schmalleger
ST
U
D
YL
AB
, Table of Content
Chapter 1 What Is Criminal Justice?
Chapter 2 The Crime Picture
Chapter 3 Criminal Law
Chapter 4 Policing: Purpose and Organization
Chapter 5 Policing: Legal Aspects
Chapter 6 Policing: Issues and Challenges
Chapter 7 The Courts
ST
Chapter 8 The Courtroom Work Group and the Criminal Trial
Chapter 9 Sentencing
U
Chapter 10 Probation, Parole, and Reentry
D
Chapter 11 Prisons and Jails
Chapter 12 Prison Life
YL
Chapter 13 Juvenile Justice
AB
, kjhgfds
Criminal Justice: A Brief Introduction, 13e (Schmalleger)
Chapter 1 What Is Criminal Justice?
1.1 Multiple Choice Questions
1) Which of the following was associated with the Prohibition years of the early twentieth
century?
A) An increase in street crime
B) A rise in terrorist incidents
C) A wave of organized criminal activity
D) An increased emphasis on individual rights
Answer: C
Page Ref: 3
ST
Objective: Summarize the history of crime in America and corresponding changes in the
American criminal justice system.
Level: Basic
2) As society became more focused on individual rights in the 1960s and 1970s, what happened
to crime in the United States?
U
A) Reported crime decreased dramatically.
B) Reported crime increased dramatically.
C) Reported crime remained stable.
D
D) Unreported crime increased dramatically.
Answer: B
Page Ref: 4
YL
Objective: Summarize the history of crime in America and corresponding changes in the
American criminal justice system.
Level: Basic
3) In the 1990s, the perception that crime rates were increasing and that offenders were not being
punished resulted in an increased focus on .
AB
A) social justice
B) individual accountability
C) due process
D) the consensus model
Answer: B
Page Ref: 4
Objective: Summarize the history of crime in America and corresponding changes in the
American criminal justice system.
Level: Intermediate
147
, kjhgfds
4) Which of the following would support the protection of personal freedoms and civil rights?
A) Crime-control advocates
B) States'-rights advocates
C) Public-order advocates
D) Individual-rights advocates
Answer: D
Page Ref: 8
Objective: Describe the public-order (crime-control) and individual-rights (due-process)
perspectives of criminal justice, concluding with how the criminal justice system balances the
two perspectives.
Level: Difficult
5) A person who believes that under certain circumstances involving a criminal threat to public
ST
safety, the interests of society should take precedence over individual rights is a(n) .
A) due-process advocate
B) individual-rights advocate
C) civil justice advocate
D) public-order advocate
Answer: D
U
Page Ref: 8
Objective: Describe the public-order (crime-control) and individual-rights (due-process)
perspectives of criminal justice, concluding with how the criminal justice system balances the
D
two perspectives.
Level: Difficult
YL
6) is an ideal that embraces all aspects of civilized life and is linked to fundamental
notions of fairness and to cultural beliefs about right and wrong.
A) Public order advocacy
B) Vigilante justice
C) Social justice
D) Civil justice
AB
Answer: C
Page Ref: 9
Objective: Explain the relationship of criminal justice to general concepts of equity and fairness.
Level: Basic
7) Criminal justice is truth in action within the process of .
A) administration of justice
B) civil justice
C) social justice
D) civil rights
Answer: A
Page Ref: 9
Objective: Explain the relationship of criminal justice to general concepts of equity and fairness.
Level: Intermediate
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