Test Bank for Criminal Justice Ethics, Theory and Practice, 5th Edition Banks (All Chapters included)
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Complete Test Bank for Criminal Justice Ethics, Theory and Practice, 5th Edition by Cyndi Banks ; ISBN13: 9781544353593....(Full Chapters included Chapter 1 to 17)...Chapter 1: The Importance of Ethics in Criminal Justice
Chapter 2: Police Ethics: The Nature of Policing and Police Corruption
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,Chapter 1: The Importance of Ethics in Criminal Justice
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Multiple Choice
1. The field of ethics is also known as ______.
a. moral philosophy
b. moralography
c. post-modernism
d. moralology
Ans: A
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Meaning of Ethics
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Ethics involves making judgments about ______.
a. how to live a “good” life
b. what “good” means
c. what is absolute truth
d. what is right or wrong
Ans: D
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Meaning of Ethics
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. What type of ethics is concerned with methods, language, and logical structure?
a. metaethics
b. normative ethics
c. applied ethics
d. method ethics
Ans: A
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Meaning of Ethics
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. The branch of ethics concerned with the question of what “good” means is ______.
a. normative ethics
b. metaethics
c. applied ethics
d. philosophy
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
,Answer Location: The Meaning of Ethics
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. 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
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Meaning of Ethics
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. Among the reasons commonly given for studying ethics, which of the following are
NOT mentioned?
a. It is crucial that ethical decisions are made, and the study of ethics enables the
development of tools that enhance ethical decision-making.
b. It is important to have the capacity to point to moral reasoning in justifying behavior,
and the study of ethics develops that capacity.
c. The study of ethics increases sensitivity to issues of right and wrong and the right
way to conduct oneself, and aids in identifying acts that have a moral content.
d. all of these
Ans: D
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Value of Ethics
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. The study of ethics is especially important in criminal justice because ______.
a. unethical behavior is more rampant in criminal justice that other fields
b. ethics is not studied at police academies
c. CJ professionals have historically ignored ethics in their decision making
d. the potential of abuse of discretion and the powers of arrest and use of force society
grants to law enforcement personnel
Ans: D
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Value of Ethics
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. The central notion to ______ is that one’s conduct must take into account moral
issues.
a. metaethics
b. normative ethics
c. applied ethics
d. method ethics
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
, Answer Location: Normative Ethics
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. 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 relative to the etiology of the problem
d. all people on the planet are related to each other in a symbiotic relationship
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Ethical Relativism
Difficulty Level: Hard
10. According to Holmes (1998), which of the following agree that there is moral right
and wrong but contend what is right for one, may be wrong for another?
a. ethical relativism
b. cultural relativism
c. extreme or individual relativism
d. ethical absolutism
Ans: A
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Ethical Relativism
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. 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
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Cultural Relativism
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. 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.
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Cultural Relativism
Difficulty Level: Medium
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