Larry K. Gaines
California State University, San Bernardino
Roger LeRoy Miller
Institute for University Studies, Arlington, Texas
Prepared by
Julie Campbell
University of Nebraska at Kearney
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, TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part 1: The Criminal Justice System
1. Criminal Justice Today 1
2. Causes of Crime 25
3. Defining and Measuring Crime 49
4. Inside Criminal Law 72
Part 2: The Police and Law Enforcement
5. Law Enforcement Today 98
6. Challenges to Effective Policing 124
7. Police and the Constitution: The Rules of Law Enforcement 151
Part 3: Criminal Courts
8. Courts and the Quest for Justice 179
9. Pretrial Procedures: The Adversary System in Action 203
10. The Criminal Trial 227
11. Punishment and Sentencing 253
Part 4: Corrections
12. Probation and Community Corrections 279
13. Prisons and Jails 303
14. Behind Bars: The Life of an Inmate 326
Part 5: Special Issues
15. The Juvenile Justice System 351
16. Homeland Security 375
17. Today’s Challenges: Immigration, Cyber Crime, and White-
Collar Crime 399
A Professor’s Guide to the Chapter-Ending CJ in Action Features 419
Teaching Using Learning Objectives 463
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, Chapter 1: Test Bank
TRUE/FALSE
1. Discretionary decisions lead to the development of the formal criminal justice process.
ANS: F REF: 15 OBJ: 5
2. The most common form of criminal activity in the United States is property crime.
ANS: T REF: 7 OBJ: 2
3. In 2010, both violent and property crime rates increased dramatically.
ANS: F REF: 20 OBJ: 8
4. The consensus model assumes that a diverse group of people cannot have similar morals
and values.
ANS: F REF: 5 OBJ: 1
5. The crime control model of criminal justice focuses on protecting individuals from the
power of the state.
ANS: F REF: 18 OBJ: 7
6. State Police are responsible for the “nuts and bolts” of police work.
ANS: F REF: 11 OBJ: 3
7. The United States has a dual court system, meaning that we have two independent court
systems, one at the federal level and one at the state level.
ANS: T REF: 14 OBJ: 3
8. The top layer of the wedding cake comes closest to meeting our idealized standards of
justice.
ANS: T REF: 16 OBJ: 6
9. The most frequent type of release from a jail or prison is probation.
ANS: F REF: 14 OBJ: 4
10. Illegal drug use appears to be slowly declining in the United States.
ANS: F REF: 21 OBJ: 8
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