Chapter 1 End of Chapter Quiz

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. What is social control?

The rules, habits, and customs a society uses to enforce conformity to its norms correct incorrect

The protection of individual rights correct incorrect

The expectation of an efficient criminal justice system correct incorrect

The idea that we must look beyond the obvious to evaluate how our social location influences how we perceive society correct incorrect

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. The protection of _____ is an integral part of the functioning of law enforcement.

Social control correct incorrect

Individual rights correct incorrect

An efficient criminal justice system correct incorrect

Social location correct incorrect

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. This is an action taken by a person or a group of people that violates the rules of society to the point that someone is harmed or society's interests are harmed.

Crime correct incorrect

War correct incorrect

protest correct incorrect

politics correct incorrect

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. This social institution controls crime by detecting, detaining, adjudicating, and punishing and/or rehabilitating people who break the law.

Courts correct incorrect

Criminal justice correct incorrect

Legislatures correct incorrect

schools correct incorrect

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. Which is not a step of the criminal justice process?

Initial contact correct incorrect

Charging correct incorrect

Adjudication correct incorrect

Offense correct incorrect

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. What public expectation does the crime control model of criminal justice describe?

The expectation of a just and fair criminal justice system correct incorrect

The expectation of a rehabilitative criminal justice system correct incorrect

The expectation of a punitive criminal justice system correct incorrect

The expectation of an efficient criminal justice system correct incorrect

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. What public expectation does the due process model of criminal justice describe?

The expectation of a progressive criminal justice system correct incorrect

The expectation of a just and fair criminal justice system correct incorrect

The expectation of a punitive criminal justice system correct incorrect

The expectation of an efficient criminal justice system correct incorrect

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. What does the wedding-cake model of criminal justice do?

Differentiates types of cases based on the seriousness of the offense correct incorrect

Differentiates types of cases based on the relationship between the victim and the defendant/offender correct incorrect

Highlights the differences between types of cases based on how the media treats and how the public considers them correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect

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. Put the layers of the wedding-cake model of criminal justice in order.

The top layer: cases that receive the most attention; the middle layers: grave felonies; the fourth layer: less serious offenses correct incorrect

The top layer: grave felonies; the middle layers: cases that receive the most attention; the fourth layer: less serious offenses correct incorrect

The top layer: cases that receive the most attention; the middle layers: less serious offenses; the fourth layer: grave felonies correct incorrect

The top layer: less serious offenses; the middle layers: grave felonies; the fourth layer: cases that receive the most attention correct incorrect

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. Which is not a violent crime offense?

Homicide correct incorrect

Robbery correct incorrect

Arson correct incorrect

assault correct incorrect

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. The government serves citizens' interests by controlling crime without allowing law enforcement agencies to turn the country into a police state.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. One reason that street crime receives more attention than corporate and white-collar crime is that people are more afraid of street crime because it is sometimes violent.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. The protection of individual rights is not an integral part of the functioning of law enforcement.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Sentencing, fines and probation, incarceration, and re-entry are all steps from the corrections function of criminal justice.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Corporate and white-collar offenses happen relatively quickly and require only a short time to perpetrate and investigate.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. The public often criticizes the criminal justice system for being ineffective and failing to produce the justice that many people expect.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. The feature that sets the U.S. criminal justice system apart from those of many other countries is the way individual rights are protected as an integral part of the functioning of law enforcement.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. A good way to understand crime is to consider victimization.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. The types of property crime that are best measured by the criminal justice system are those in which the offender and the victim know each other.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Criminal offenses always involve a discernible victim.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect