
Module 6 Study Guide Review
Quiz by Tiffany Cottrell
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For most people, the only personal experience they have with the criminal justice process is contact with a:
Your textbook describes four characteristics that generally define the role of the police. Three are listed below. Which one is NOT described in your textbook?
John Broderick classified police officers by their degree of commitment to maintaining order and their respect for due process. Three of these classifications are listed below. Which one does NOT belong?
Which of the following is unquestionably the most time-consuming and resource-intensive task of any police agency?
Patrols that are “systematically unsystematic” and observant in an attempt to both deter and ferret out crime on their beats are known as random or ____ patrol.
In ____ patrol, officers are given guidance on how to use their patrol time, which is often based on the results of crime analyses that identify problem areas.
When an entire patrol section is instructed to make numerous traffic stops and field interrogations, the practice is referred to as ____ patrol.
Your textbook names five roles that investigators may play in a police department. Three are listed below. Which one does NOT belong?
Criminal investigation has been defined as a lawful search of people and things to achieve three of the following goals. Which of the following is NOT one of the goals of criminal investigation?
With DNA profiling, a unique genetic profile can be derived from ____ found at the scene of a crime or on a victim.
Your textbook names three distinct functions of DNA profiling. They are listed below. Which of the following is NOT one of these distinct functions?
Your textbook names three reasons why many victims of cybercrime fail to report these crimes to authorities. Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons listed in your textbook?
The knowledge to carry out cybercrimes is readily available at hacker:
Your textbook describes several ways in which cybercriminals can illegally access, manipulate, or steal computer data. Three of these ways are listed below. Which is NOT one of the ways listed in your textbook?
Each year, nearly twice as many people are ____ as are ____.
The professional model of policing, which police followed in the decades before community policing, rested on three foundations. They are listed below. Which of the following is NOT one of these three foundations?
Researchers discovered that ____ of citizens wait 5–10 minutes to call the police, which prevents police from catching the criminal at the scene.
One of the interesting findings of foot patrol research was that foot patrol officers were better able to deal with:
With community policing:
Following are three parts of the acronym SARA, which some community policing advocates recommend as a four-step problem-solving process. Which of the following is NOT one of the components of SARA?
The crime triangle is a view of crime and disorder as an interaction among three variables, which are:
The most widely used crime-mapping application is probably ______.
Which of the following is currently the most complete DNA database?
Which of the following agencies has the largest AFIS?
Which of the following drug enforcement strategies accounts for the greatest number of drug arrests and seizures?
In 2007, approximately ____________ local police departments had one or more officers assigned full-time to a multiagency drug enforcement task force, about the same percentage as in 2003
Which of the following is NOT true about terrorism?
In recent years, the mission of D.A.R.E. has expanded to include:
Which of the following is the FBI's definition of terrorism?
As of August 5, 2010 _______ foreign terrorist organizations were recognized by the U.S. State Department as loosely affiliated extremists and rogue international terrorists to include the World Trade Center bombers and rogue terrorists such as Osama bin Laden and members of al-Qaida
A role expectation consists of the rights and responsibilities associated with a particular position in society.
Sometimes a police officer's role may be simply to solve problems in the course of providing service.
In street police work, passion is the ability to use force or the recognition that force is a legitimate means of resolving conflict.
Police administrators have long referred to investigation as the backbone of the department.
The 1972 Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment found that heavily patrolled streets had significantly less crime than unpatrolled streets did.
GIS crime mapping is a technique that involves the charting of crime patterns within a geographic area.
Field interrogations generally do not reduce crime in targeted areas.
Detectives usually have the cards stacked against them, and their chances of solving crimes are low.
It is believed that soon DNA from a flake of dandruff will yield a positive identification, but there will still be the need to consider mathematical probabilities.
Large metropolitan police agencies use AFIS to identify hundreds of suspects per year.
A survey has revealed that law enforcement agencies have adequate training, equipment, and staff to confront present and future incidents of cybercrime.
In some agencies, special traffic accident investigation crews are assigned to all parking violation enforcement.