Describe the Following Journal of Police Science and Management Flashcards

For most people the only personal experience they have with the criminal justice process is contact with a:

-federal police officer
-courtroom
-correctional institution
-local police officer

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?

-the police perform ongoing educational roles within the community
-the police are community leaders in public safety
-the police occasionally serve in a hostile or dangerous environment.
-the police solve sociological and technological problems for people on a short term basis

In 2002 how many police officers were feloniously killed in the line of duty?

-0
-22
-56
-142

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?

-enforcers
-idealists
-punishers
-optimists

Which of the following is unquestionably the most time consuming and resource intensive task of any police agency?

-patrol
-investigation
-dna profiling
-field interrogation

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.

-foot
-directed
-preventive
-aggressive

In ___ patrol, officers are gievn guidance on how to use their patrol time which is often based on the results of crime analyses that identify problem areas.

-directed
-preventive
-aggressive
-foot

When an entire patrol section is instructed to make numerous traffic stops and field interrogations the practice is referred to as ____ patrol.

- foot
-aggressive
-directed
-preventive

Your textbook names five roles thatinvestigators may play in a police department. Three are listed below. Which does not belong?

-investigators conducting background checks of applicants to the police department
-uniformed patrol officers investigating the crimes they have been dispatched to or have encountered on their own while on patrol
-uniformed police officers conducting field interrogations and other types of aggressive patrol
-internal affairs investigators conducting investigations of alleged crimed by police personnel.

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?

-apprehend or determine the guilty party
-reconstruct the circumstances of an illegal act
-aid in the states prosecution of the offender
0conduct preventive patrol to ferret out crime

Police detective seem to have a number of advantages over patrol officers and the seven of these advantages are listed in your textbook. Three are listed below. Which is not one of these advantages?

-they have offices and desks
-they enjoy more freedom than patrol officers do from the police radio and geographical boundaries
-they often move on to patronage jobs
-in many agencies they receive higher compensation and hold a higher rank

Your textbook gives three reasons why despite low crime solving rates by detectives many police departments continue to employ them. Three are listed below. Which one does not belong?

-detectives have interrogation and case presentation skills that assist in prosecution.
-Detectives have wider jurisdiction than patrol officers do and can arrest and book some suspects that other police officers cannot.
-Law enforcement executives can assign detectives to a major, high profile case to demonstrate to the public that they are committing resources to the matter.
-Technical knowledge, such as knowing about burglary tools, does help in some investigations and prosecutions.

With dna profiling a unique profile can be derived from ____ found at the scene of a crime or on a victim.

-hair
-semen
-blood
-all of the above

Your textbook names three distinct fnctions of dna profiling. They are listed below. Which of the following is not one of these distinct functions

-collecting samples from all people at birth so that a complete dna database can be compiled
-clearing innocent people convicted of rape and murder years after they began serving their sentences
-linking or eliminating identified suspects to a crime
-identifying cold hits where a sample from a crime scene is matched against numerous cases in dna database and a positive match is made.

Your textbook names three reasons why many victims of cybercrime fail to report these crimes to authroities. Which of the following is not one of the reasons listed in your textbook.

-the fear of being implicated in the crime
-the shame of not providing adequate security to protected trusted assets
-the fear of losing public confidence as a result of being a victim
-the attention to their vulnerability that a crime report would attract