,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)
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
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.
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)
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
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.
