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