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 Career Education-Criminal Justice Chapters 1-5 Quiz

True/False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false. Chapter 1
 

 1. 

One of the principles of “doing justice” involves protecting the rights of the accused.
 

 2. 

Crime prevention depends on the actions of police and citizens.
 

 3. 


The concept of citizen’s arrest grants citizens the same authority to enforce the law as police officers.
 

 4. 

The concept of federalism involves the division of power between a central (national) government and regional (state) governments
 

 5. 


 Most criminal laws are written by state legislatures but enforced by federal agencies.
 

 6. 

Chapter 2

 Robberies and other visible crimes are among the least profitable criminal activities.
 

 7. 

Visible crimes are typically committed by older career criminals
 

 8. 


Occupational crimes are often profitable and do not come to the public's attention.
 

 9. 


Organized crime has been observed in all American immigrant groups as one of the first steps on the so-called “ladder of social mobility.”
 

 10. 

. Relatively few political crimes take place in western democracies compared with other countries
 

 11. 

Chapter 3

In the United States, criminal laws dictate punishments for those who violate the terms of a contract with another individual.
 

 12. 

. In Robinson v. California (1962), the Supreme Court struck down a law that made it a crime to be addicted to drugs.
 

 13. 

 To be a crime, an act must cause harm to some legally protected value.
 

 14. 

. If a person did not have mens rea, then he or she cannot be found guilty, with the exception of strict liability offenses
 

 15. 

 If a person did not have mens rea, then he or she cannot be found guilty, with the exception of strict liability offenses
 

 16. 

Detectives were the first official law enforcement positions created in the expanding western rural areas.
 

 17. 

. The professional model of policing places a high value on the use of technology.
 

 18. 


Refocusing attention on crime control and away from maintaining order did more than anything else to change the nature of American policing during Professional Model Era.
 

 19. 

In the United States, the growth of cities led to pressures to modernize law enforcement.
 

 20. 

Increasing the number of patrol officers in a given area has been found to significantly reduce the crime rate in that area
 

 21. 

Police officers who have the public’s confidence are often more effective at their jobs.
 

 22. 

Police are mainly reactive because they are dependent upon citizen calls for service in performing their duties
 

 23. 


ComStat delivers detailed crime statistics for each precinct and helps to develop immediate approaches and goals for problem solving. .
 

 24. 

In large departments, detectives make up two-thirds of sworn officers
 

 25. 


Detectives are more closely supervised than patrol officers.
 



 
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