CRCJ 1010

This is designed to gather data on each criminal act even if several acts are committed within the same incident

National incident based reporting system

This is the largest local police force in the country

New York PD

Which is a major 20th venture police reformer

August Vollmer

This is useful for generating leads in cases in which biological evidence is recovered from a crime scene

CODIS

According to the wedding cake model of criminal justice, what does the top layer represent

Celebrated cases

Written on an ancient stone tablet, this collection of over 250 laws covered a wide range of issues

Code of Hummurabi

This is sometimes called case law, judiciary law, or unwritten law

Common law

This policing strategy attempts to harness the resources and residents of a jurisdiction in stopping crime and maintaining order

Community policing

This is a violation of the laws of a society by a person or a group of people who are subject to the laws of that society

Crime

This criminal justice model describes the expectation of an efficient criminal justice system

Crime control model

This concept describes that police officers make about which laws to enforce, how much to enforce them, when to let some offenses slide, and when to devote attention to truly significant offenses

Discretion

This legal principle states that a person cannot be tried twice for the same offense

Double Jeopardy

This criminal justice model describes the expectation of a just and fair criminal justice system

Due process model

This agency measures crime using the UCR

FBI

Common law and statutory law are the same thing TF

False

Law is derived from a single source TF

False

Rarely are offenses sensationalized by the media and given such vast resources in their detention and prosecution that they distort the perception of the amount and seriousness of crime TF

False

Which are the three distinct levels of law enforcement in the US

Federal state and local

These offenses are punishable by more than a year in a state prison

Felonies

This early form of policing most directly led to that of modern US policing

Frankpledge system

What is the legal principle in which courts are bound by the decisions of previous courts called

Stare decisis

Police officers, prosecutors, judges, and corrections officials use this to decide what to do with individual cases

Statutes

This type of law is enacted by legislatures

Statutory law

This annual FBI publication uses data from participating US law enforcement agencies to summarize the incidence and rate of reported crime

Uniform Crime Reports

Which choice best describes the sources of error in the Uniform crime reports

Unintentional and intentional

After the trial of James Holmes, who opened fire on Aurora, Colorado. movie theater in July 2012. About 100 family members of the victims spoke in court about how the crime affected them. Which term best relates to this activity.

Victim impact statement

Criminologists use this term to refer to instances when a victim plays an active role in initiating conflict

Victim precipitation

To administer a legal process of judging and to pronounce a judgement

Adjudicate

An example of this type of offense is conspiracy

Inchoate offense

Which one is an example of a special needs search

Inmate search

This was the first successful bill in England to create a permanent public police force

Metro Police Act

Why is it difficult to measure white collar and corporate crim

Much of the investigation and regulation of corporate and white-collar crime is not done by law enforcement

Which of the following is what we know with substantial confidence about police use of force

Police use force infrequently

According to Blacks law dictionary this is, "the entire population of a county above the age of 15, which a sheriff may summon to his assistance in certain cases as to aid him in keeping the peace, in pursuing and arresting felons, etc"

Posse comitatus

This is a reason based on known facts to think that a criminal offense has occurred

Probable cause

This style of policing attempts to address the underlying social problems that contribute to crime by integrating research and scientific problem solving strategies to analyze instances of crime with the goal of dev more effective response strategies

Problem oriented policing

Which term describes when law enforcement officers take potential evidence in a criminal case

Seizure

In a high school class, a researcher hands out questionnaires that ask the students to identify any criminal offenses they have committed, which term best describes this type of research

Self report study

As long as human beings have lived in large groups, we have needed this

Social control

This consists of the rules, habits, and customs a society uses to enforce conformity to its norms.

Social control

According to this case, deadly force may only be used if a suspect poses a threat to the lives of police officers or bystanders

Tenessee V. Garner

In this case, the Supreme Court found that police have the right to search suspects to ensure their own safety if they think that the suspects are armed

Terry V. Ohio

Which is not a reason that a victim would not report an offense

The victim may have committed the offense

Which activity most often brings police officers into face to face contact with citizens

Trafic duties

Although the UCR provides a reasonably good picture of crime, it does not tell the whole crime story TF

True