CJA 326 Wk 1 - Concept Check
1. Question 1
Domestic violence, racial profiling, and use of force are all examples of which category of ethical issues in criminal justice?
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Ethical problems in the relationship between personal and professional interests
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Ethical problems in the use of authority
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Ethical issues in criminal justice and public policy
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Ethical issues resulting from policing policies
2. Question 2
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Administration of cruel and unusual punishment is an example of which category of ethical issues in criminal justice?
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1. Ethical issues resulting from policing policies
2. Ethical problems in information sharing
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Ethical problems in dealing with human rights issues in the criminal justice system
4. Ethical issues in the media reporting of crime
3. Question 3
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Natural law can be a source of ethical principles.
4. Question 4
During what decade did policing begin to narrow its functions to focus on crime control?
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1. T True 2. F False 2/2 1.5. Question 5
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Which of the following is not one of the issues that commentators agree have shaped ethics over the years?
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1. Styles of policing
2. The media
3. The police as an institution
4. Police culture
6. Question 6
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Jerome Skolnick (1966) noted the inherent tension between enforcing the law and respecting rights. He suggested that the best solution to this dilemma was for police to give priority to which of the following?
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1. Their duty to uphold the law
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Their duty to protect the public
3.
Their reputation with the public
4.
Their obligation to fight crime
7. Question 7
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Which of the following factors may lead to corruption from the institutional viewpoint?
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Low public visibility and secrecy
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Police personality and rotten apple
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Corruption of authority and internal payoffs
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None of the above
8. Question 8
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Which of the following competence-related police behaviors are considered to contribute to police corruption?
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1. Forming police duties out of one’s own self-interest
2. Failing to take advantage of relevant, ongoing training opportunities
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Lacking the skills, aptitude, or confidence to make lawful arrests
4. All of the above
9. Question 9
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Extensive police use of “stop and frisk” has been shown to decrease violent crime rates.
1. T True
2. F False
10. Question 10
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The rotten apple theory of police corruption blames individual officers or small groups of officers for the police corruption problem.
1. T True