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CJUS385 Final Exam StudyBeginning from the late 1980s, crime related infotainment began to appear on television and
______ dissolved. - correct answer-the boundary between crime and entertainment
What type of ethics is concerned with methods, language, and logical structure?
A. metaethics
B. normative ethics
C. applied ethics
D. method ethics - correct answer-A
The branch of ethics concerned with the question of what "good" means is ______.
A. normative ethics
B. metaethics
C. applied ethics
D. philosophy - correct answer-B
Normative ethics is a form of ethics devised to assist in ______.
A. deciding which system of ethics is best
B. making decisions about the proper behavior
C. deciding what is good or right in the abstract
D. deciding which government or agency policies are best - correct answer-B
Ethical relativism assumes that ______.
A. all issues are related
B. what is right or ethical may vary from person to person or culture to culture
C. answers to ethical questions are leative to the etiology of the problem
D. all people on the planet are related to each other in a symbiotic relationship - correct
answer-B
Proponents of which ethical theory argue that every society has a different moral code that
explains which acts are permitted or not?
A. ethical relativism
B. cultural relativism
C. extreme or individual relativism
D. ethical absolutism - correct answer-B
Which of the following is a major problem with cultural relativism?
A. It provides answers to issues and Spurs debate
B. It operates as a moral isolationism
,C. Values of different historical periods are valid throughout time
D. Cultures are totally isolated from one another - correct answer-B
Ethical absolutism assumes that ______________.
A. There is an essential, unchanging moral law that applies everywhere to everyone
B. There are absolutely no moral universals
C. There are many possible ethical truths
D. No set of moral rules is absolutely true in all times and all places - correct answer-A
Ethical pluralism argues that in most situations ________________.
A. There are a lot of alternatives but only one can be correct
B. The principle with which the greatest number of people agree is the correct principal
C. There are many truths rather than a single truth
D. Ethical absolutism applies only when there are a large number of ethical options - correct
answer-C
The principle of understanding, tolerance, standing up and fallability are all parts of the
theory of ethical____________.
A. Relativism
B. Pluralism
C. Absolutism
D. Exoneration - correct answer-B
The idea of natural law is_____________.
A. Almost identical to religious law
B. We can identify some factors that are common to our human nature
C. That a behavior is natural because God commands it
D. God commands a law because it is natural - correct answer-B
Natural laws are said to__________________.
A. Govern human behavior
B. Incorporate human nature and goals humans naturally seek
C. Represent a search for moral absolutes
D. All the above - correct answer-D
Legislation, statutes, and regulations made by governments are known as______________.
A. Natural law
B. Relative ethics
C. Law
D. Metaethics - correct answer-C
______________ laws conflict with ethical standards
, A. Always
B. Never
C. Maybe
D. Sometimes - correct answer-D
An ethical dilemma can arise when a person__________________________.
A. Is faced with choices that involve conflicting ethical principles
B. Knowingly decides to violate the clearly applicable ethical standards
C. Is punished for making an ethical decision
D. Cannot determine which ethical principles apply - correct answer-A
The difference between an ethical dilemma and an ethical issue is that
the__________________.
A. Former is more important than the latter
B. Ladder involves a public policy question
C. Ladder involves questions of individual ethical conduct
D. Former involves conflicting principles, why the latter does not - correct answer-B
In addition to the formal rules and regulations of the job, police behavior is also heavily
influenced by police ______.
A. demeanor
B. mystique
C. culture
D. mythology - correct answer-C
Occupational culture is defined as which of the following?
A. The particular roles and experiences of the different occupational groups within the
institution.
B. The attitudes, values, and norms of an institution.
C. police professionalism
D. all of the above - correct answer-A
In his explanation of police culture, Crank (1998) characterizes ______ as the notion that
police view much of their work by reference to the use of force.
A. coercive territorial control
B. the new warriors
C. turbulence and edge-control
D. cynicism - correct answer-A
Some scholars of policing have suggested that police culture has changed with the advent of
______.
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