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CJS 201 Week 1 Quiz
- 1
A psychopath is someone who is out of touch with reality in some fundamental way.
True
False
- 2
A consecutive sentence occurs when an offender found guilty of more than one charge is ordered to serve one sentence after another one is completed.
True
False
- 3
________ is an eighteenth-century approach to crime causation and criminal responsibility that emphasizes free will and reasonable punishments.
The Psychological School
Positivism
Biosocial Criminology
The Classical School
- 4
Which conflict theory is mainly deconstructionist?
Postmodern criminology
Left realism
Convict criminology
Feminist criminology
- 5
The grand jury system is required to follow the same procedural rules as a criminal trial.
True
False
- 6
The problem of mortgage fraud has been declining in the last decade.
True
False
- 7
Which type of crime does not require mens rea?
A strict liability offense
A conspiracy
A misdemeanor
An inchoate offense
- 8
Which agency is responsible for the National Crime Victimization Survey?
The CIA
Bureau of Justice Statistics
The U.S. Department of Defense and Criminal Statistics
The FBI
- 9
The dark figure of crime refers to
crimes committed by the police.
bias crimes.
crime that occurs at night.
crime that is not reported to the police.
- 10
________ theory focuses on the strength of the bond people share with individuals and institutions around them.
Social structure
Social control
Social learning
Labeling
- 11
________ is defined as the unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or theft.
Robbery
Arson
Burglary
Assault
- 12
________ is an ideal that embraces all aspects of civilized life and that is linked to fundamental notions of fairness and to cultural beliefs about right and wrong.
Individual rights advocacy
Individual justice
Social justice
Public order advocacy
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One who believes that under certain circumstances involving a criminal threat to public safety, the interests of society should take precedence over individual rights is a ________ advocate.
social justice
conflict
civil justice
public order
- 14
________ is a theory of human behavior, based on the writings of Sigmund Freud, that sees personality as a complex composite of interacting mental entities.
Social development theory
Psychopathology
Psychoanalysis
Anomie
- 15
All deviant behavior is a violation of the criminal law.
True
False
- 16
The use of the Internet, e-mail, and other electronic communication technologies to bully another person is known as cyberstalking.
True
False
- 17
An offender is convicted of multiple crimes and is sentenced for each offense. A ________ sentence permits the offender to serve all sentences at the same time.
consecutive
concurrent
simultaneous
Single
- 18
To establish the ________ of a crime, the state must show that a criminal law was violated and that someone violated it.
exigence
stare decisis
collateral estoppel
corpus delicti
- 19
Stand-your-ground laws allow a defendant to claim that force was used in self-defense even if it would have been possible to escape the situation instead of using force.
True
False
- 20
A public-order advocate is one who believes that under certain circumstances involving a criminal threat to public safety, the interests of society should take precedence over individual rights.
True
False
- 21
Denial of a speedy trial is an example of a procedural defense.
True
False
- 22
Which of the following types of law is based on the assumption that acts injure not just individuals, but society as a whole?
Civil law
Administrative law
Criminal law
Tort law
- 23
The ________ holds that individuals cannot be held criminally responsible for their actions if at the time of the crime they did not know what they were doing or did not know that their actions were wrong.
Durham rule
irresistible-impulse test
M’Naughten rule
substantial capacity test
- 24
NIBRS represents a significant redesign of the original UCR program.
True
False
- 25
Even if a defendant has been acquitted in criminal court, he or she can be tried in civil court without violating the principle of double jeopardy.
True
False