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,True / False1. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), there are about 500 justified fatal police shootings each year.
This number is an increase from 5 years ago.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: Developing the Criminal Justice System
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: ESCJ.SIEG.17.01.01 - Discuss the formation of the criminal justice system in the United
States.
KEYWORDS: Remember
2. Crime is higher today than it was in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: Developing the Criminal Justice System
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: ESCJ.SIEG.17.01.01 - Discuss the formation of the criminal justice system in the United
States.
KEYWORDS: Remember
3. The Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) continues to provide grants to local and state justice agencies
to fund criminal justice activities.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: Developing the Criminal Justice System
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: ESCJ.SIEG.17.01.01 - Discuss the formation of the criminal justice system in the United
States.
KEYWORDS: Remember
4. Of the components in the Criminal Justice System, usually the correctional component comes before the other
two components.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: The Contemporary Criminal Justice System
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: ESCJ.SIEG.17.01.03 - Identify the basic component agencies of the criminal justice system.
KEYWORDS: Analyze
5. The police department was created in the United States; the first formed in Philadelphia after the Civil War.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: Developing the Criminal Justice System
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: ESCJ.SIEG.17.01.01 - Discuss the formation of the criminal justice system in the United
States.
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,KEYWORDS: Remember
6. The contemporary criminal justice system is society’s instrument of formal social control.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: The Contemporary Criminal Justice System
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: ESCJ.SIEG.17.01.02 - Define the concept of a criminal justice system.
KEYWORDS: Remember
7. Most criminal cases are processed through the entire formal justice system.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: The Formal Criminal Justice Process
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: ESCJ.SIEG.17.01.06 - Articulate what is meant by the term criminal justice assembly line.
KEYWORDS: Remember
8. Police officers can arrest someone if they have a “gut feeling” that the person is guilty of a criminal offense.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: The Formal Criminal Justice Process
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: ESCJ.SIEG.17.01.06 - Articulate what is meant by the term criminal justice assembly line.
KEYWORDS: Apply
9. In a probable cause hearing, the defendant and his or her attorney may appear and dispute the prosecutor’s charges.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: The Formal Criminal Justice Process
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: ESCJ.SIEG.17.01.05 - Trace the formal criminal justice process.
KEYWORDS: Remember
10. Less serious felonies make up the bottom layer (Level 4) of the criminal justice system wedding cake.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: The Informal Criminal Justice Process
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: ESCJ.SIEG.17.01.08 - Describe the “wedding cake” model of justice.
KEYWORDS: Apply
11. The crime control perspective views the justice system as a means of caring for and treating people who
cannot manage themselves.
a. True
b. False
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, ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: Perspectives on Justice
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: ESCJ.SIEG.17.01.09 - Discuss the various perspectives on justice.
KEYWORDS: Remember
12. Decriminalization of marijuana would most likely be advocated by those having a perspective of equal justice.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: Perspectives on Justice
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: ESCJ.SIEG.17.01.09 - Discuss the various perspectives on justice.
KEYWORDS: Understand
13. Noninterventionists support the placement of first-time offenders who commit minor crimes into informal community-
based treatment programs.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: Perspectives on Justice
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: ESCJ.SIEG.17.01.09 - Discuss the various perspectives on justice.
KEYWORDS: Remember
14. The issue of ethics is becoming less important in the criminal justice system, due to an increasing number of checks
and balances.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: Ethics in Criminal Justice
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: ESCJ.SIEG.17.01.10 - Discuss the ethical issues that arise in criminal justice.
KEYWORDS: Understand
15. An ethical issue that has received recent attention is that of sexual violence by correctional officers against inmates.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: Ethics in Criminal Justice
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: ESCJ.SIEG.17.01.10 - Discuss the ethical issues that arise in criminal justice.
KEYWORDS: Remember
16. Use of discretion at all levels of the criminal justice system is one way in which ethical considerations arise.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: Ethics in Criminal Justice
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: ESCJ.SIEG.15.01.10 - Discuss the ethical issues that arise in criminal justice.
KEYWORDS: Understand
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