True/False Indicate whether the
statement is true or false. Chapter 1
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One of the principles of “doing justice” involves protecting the
rights of the accused.
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Crime prevention depends on the actions of police and citizens.
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The concept of citizen’s
arrest grants citizens the same authority to enforce the law as police officers.
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The concept of federalism involves the division of power between a central
(national) government and regional (state) governments
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Most criminal laws are
written by state legislatures but enforced by federal agencies.
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Chapter 2
Robberies and other visible crimes are among the least
profitable criminal activities.
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Visible crimes are typically committed by older career criminals
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Occupational crimes are often
profitable and do not come to the public's attention.
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Organized crime has been
observed in all American immigrant groups as one of the first steps on the so-called “ladder of
social mobility.”
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. Relatively few political crimes take place in western democracies
compared with other countries
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Chapter 3 In the United
States, criminal laws dictate punishments for those who violate the terms of a contract with another
individual.
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. In Robinson v. California (1962), the Supreme Court struck down a
law that made it a crime to be addicted to drugs.
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To be a crime, an act must cause harm to some legally protected
value.
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. If a person did not have mens rea, then he or she cannot be found
guilty, with the exception of strict liability offenses
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If a person did not have mens rea, then he or she cannot be found
guilty, with the exception of strict liability offenses
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Detectives were the first official law enforcement positions created in the
expanding western rural areas.
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. The professional model of policing places a high value on the use of
technology.
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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.
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In the United States, the growth of cities led to pressures to modernize law
enforcement.
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Increasing the number of patrol officers in a given area has been found to
significantly reduce the crime rate in that area
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Police officers who have the public’s confidence are often more effective
at their jobs.
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Police are mainly reactive because they are dependent upon citizen calls for
service in performing their duties
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ComStat delivers detailed crime
statistics for each precinct and helps to develop immediate approaches and goals for problem solving.
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In large departments, detectives make up two-thirds of sworn officers
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Detectives are more closely
supervised than patrol officers.
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