SURVEY OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE
CRIMINAL JUSTICE 101
QUIZ # 1
TRUE/FALSE
______ 1. In a generic sense, the poor are more criminal than the rich.
______ 2. Vertical plea bargaining occurs when a prosecutor decides
to reduce the number of offenses the defendant is being charged
for.
______ 3. Derrick Bok, former Dean of the Harvard Law School,
believes the skills that need to be taught in law school are
mediation and arbitration.
______ 4. The Beta Error of Criminology can be defined as follows:
It is improper to call something the cause of crime if it
produces crime so rarely.
______ 5. Barrenblatt v. U.S. states that the Constitution applies
only to those who desire to maintain the status quo.
MULTIPLE CHOICE
______ 1. What is the major factor affecting the reporting of
crimes?
A. level of police officer education
B. communication equipment
C. social class of the victim
D. none of the above
E. all of the above
______ 2. What organization collects the UCR data from law
enforcement agencies?
A. DEA
B. FBI
C. U.S. Senate
D. CIA
E. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
______ 3. Which of the following is a due process notion?
A. limited number of appeals
B. build more prisons
C. capital punishment
D. rehabilitation
E. lenient search and seizure laws
______ 4. The fact that federal, state, county, and city
jurisdictions maintain their own executive, legislative, and
judicial systems results in:
A. discretion
B. legalization
C. fragmentation
D. decriminalization
E. plea bargaining
______ 5. The key factor of deterrence is:
A. forcefulness
B. clarity
C. swiftness
D. certainty
E. severity
FILL IN THE BLANK
1. In a purely descriptive sense, the justice system provides jobs,
_____________, and ______________. As discussed in class, a more
noble function is not to eliminate, but to reduce ______________.
2. The four errors of justice are ______, ______, ______, ______.
3. The four elements of justice are ______, ______, ______, ______.
4. The practice of artificially increasing the number of reported crimes
is known as ________.
5. The different enforcement procedures in different communities is
known as the _________.
MATCHING
______ Bio-Sociology A. Adjusting to the prison culture and
environment
______ Radical Theory B. Has problems such as too late to
change offender's values and also
limited exposure
______ Prisonization Phenomenon C. Crime is due to people's physical
conditions and we should intervene
biologically
______ Rehabilitation D. The awareness of punishment of others
prevents someone from committing a
crime
______ Specific Deterrence E. Crime is such a varied phenomena that
we can't identify one cause of all
crime
______ General Deterrence F. Punishing a specific person teaches
them a lesson and prevents them from
committing crime in future
______ Alpha Error G. Quinney suggests that we need a
revolution: tearing down prisons,
eliminate police, and start over with
a classless society
ANSWER KEY
QUIZ # 1
TRUE/FALSE
1. True - criminal definitions are made by the rich and are enforced
by the rich; the rich, because they have the power, are able to both
define the acts of the poor as criminal and to see to it that those
edits are enforced; the ability to make and enforce law is the prize
for which groups compete
2. False - this is an example of horizontal plea bargaining
3. True
4. True
5. True
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. E - all of the above
2. B - FBI
3. D - rehabilitation
4. C - fragmentation
5. D - certainty
FILL IN THE BLANK
1. Provide jobs, Suppress the lower classes, Slow the evolutionary cycle
and maintains the status quo; Reduce the severity of the nature of deviance
2. Innocent are punished, Guilty punished more severely than they should
be, Guilty punished less severely than they should be, Guilty escape
punishment
3. Identify, Apprehend, Punish, and Knowledge of Intent
4. Founding
5. Local Legal Culture
MATCHING
A. Prisonization Phenomenon
B. Rehabilitation
C. Bio-Sociology
D. General Deterrence
E. Alpha Error
F. Specific Deterrence
G. Radical Theory