Exam 1: Introducing Crime and Criminal Justice

Criminal justice is an interdisciplinary field. Determine which area of inquiry the following example demonstrates: Scientists analyze the DNA collected at the scene of a crime.

Criminal justice agencies have always been regarded as professions.

Professionals engage in specialized tasks that cannot be accomplished by those outside the profession, and through their education and experience, professionals acquire expertise in their fields that is not easily available to others.

Those behaviors considered deviant by society are also always illegal.

Whether viewed from the lens of system, profession, bureaucracy, moral agent, or academic discipline, criminal justice is fundamentally about what?

Laws that required businesses to be closed and prohibited other activities on Sundays are known as

Criminal justice has been called a nonsystem because criminal justice agencies are not neatly networked into a cohesive single unit and there is no single authority that oversees all of criminal justice practice in the United States.

The study of criminal justice is an interdisciplinary endeavor, which overlaps with several related areas of inquiry, including criminology, emergency management, forensic science, and homeland security.

The development of criminal justice as an academic area of study is beneficial for what reason?

A police officer can decide whether to give a speeding motorist a ticket or a warning; this is an example of the police officer's discretion.

Talk About: -Offenses included in the property crime rate

The Uniform Crime Report (UCR) is

Talk About: -Profession

In the past, criminal justice occupations have often been regarded as crafts.

Which of the following is not an example of discretion?

Murder, rape, robbery (i.e., taking another person's property through the use or threat of force, such as a holdup), and aggravated assault are included in the

In the course of using their discretion to make good decisions, police officers become philosophers.

Bureaucracies and politics are always separate.

The bureaucratic model is the reality and poses some constraints within which the criminal justice system and its employees must work.

Talk About: -Mala prohibita