Chapter 1 Practice Quiz

. Which model of the criminal justice system emphasizes values such as crime repression, few restrictions on police powers, efficiency, presumed of guilt of defendants, and established guilt?

. Which model of the criminal justice system emphasizes values such as fundamental fairness, constraints on the police, system accountability, and establishing legal guilt?

. Which branch of applied ethics concerns itself with codified sets of ethical principles, standards, or rules that apply to professionals?

. What concept describes a process during which a criminal justice practitioner learns what is expected of him or her and "becomes" a practitioner in the sense of that identity becoming crucial to his or her sense of self?

. The career that includes the stages of choice, introduction, encounter, and metamorphosis is known as a practitioner's:

. Which concept describes a process by which the criminal justice practitioner slowly rejects the positive values that moved her to join the field, while simultaneously beginning to accept and engage in behaviors contrary to agency, legal, and societal standards?

. Which theory holds that a behavior is ethical if its possible positive consequences for everyone outweigh its possible negative consequences?

. Religious ethics proponents argue that morality is dependent on the character of God and obedience to God's commands revealed in sacred texts like the Bible, the Torah, or the Koran.

. Morals is not a subdiscipline within the field of philosophy.

. All morality comes from formal rules.

. Ethics is the study of right and wrong behavior.

. According to the values-learned perspective, practitioner values are imported into criminal justice agencies.

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