Deck 14: The Future and Criminal Justice Ethics

Question 1

The "prescription for the future" relating to criminal justice ethics includes which of the following considerations?

A) Organizational context
B) Modeling
C) Hiring toward the community
D) All of the above

Answer 1

D

Question 2

This term describes a hierarchy of positions, sets of rules, and a clear division of labor in a collective of individuals organized into a group to achieve specific goals.

A) Organizations
B) Organizational structure
C) Division of labor
D) None of the above

Answer 2

B

Question 3

A mix of interrelated labor processes that are both separated from one another, but also coordinated by managerial authority refers to an organization's:

A) Complexity
B) Structure
C) Division of labor
D) Complex goals

Answer 3

C

Question 4

A police department may have many competing and conflicting purposes, known as the agency's:

A) Complexity
B) Structure
C) Division of labor
D) Complex goals

Question 5

Reorienting an agency's internal affairs division so that its operational mandate now has members of the unit meet with representatives from other units/divisions/offices in the agency to discuss ethical issues entails the agency being:

A) Ethically oriented
B) Ethically diverse
C) Ethically proactive
D) Ethically progressive

Question 6

One way to encourage balance in the personal ideologies and values of criminal justice agency recruits is by emphasizing the importance of this during pre-employment screening, actual hiring processes, and training:

A) Just means
B) Diversity hiring
C) Ethical proactivity
D) None of the above

Question 7

Revamping the hiring and training process to moderate the powerful influence of crime control ideology on the behavior of trainees involves which of the following?

A) Occupational socialization
B) Modeling ethics
C) Ethical proactivity
D) Hiring toward the community

Question 8

The Rampart Scandal that consumed the Los Angeles Police Department for a long period during the late 1990s illustrates which of the following?

A) Modeling ethics
B) The organizational context of ethics
C) Hiring toward the community
D) Complex goals of the organization

Question 9

Being terminated for failing to report potentially illegal or unethical behavior of others employed by a criminal justice agency illustrates which of the following?

A) An agency's procedure
B) An agency's goals
C) An agency's policy
D) An agency's complexity

Question 10

Presuming that all individuals coming into contact with the criminal justice system are guilty:

A) Leads to a lack of resources (e.g., investigators, forensic experts) for indigent defendants and their attorneys
B) Encourages police officers to circumvent both law and ethics, and engage in noble cause misconduct
C) Helps sustain a plea-bargaining system that pressures defendants to plead guilty, sometimes to crimes they did not commit
D) All of the above

Question 11

_________ are collectives of individuals organized into groups with identifiable boundaries and internal structures, engaging in activities designed to achieve a set of goals.

Question 12

_________ describes a set of offices organized into a hierarchy, with a clear division of labor, guided by formal rules.

Question 13

_______ involves working toward diversifying agency personnel not only in terms of race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc., but also in terms of linguistic skills and values

Question 14

Behavioral cues from higher-level organizational actors that send strong messages to underlings and recruits about how to behave themselves is known as ______________.

Question 15

_______ is balance in the personal ideologies and values of recruits.

Question 16

_______ is intended to moderate the powerful influence of crime control ideology on the recruitment, hiring, training, and socialization of criminal justice practitioners.

Question 17

________ occurs when, as part of the operational mandate of a criminal justice agency, members of an internal affairs unit regularly meet with representatives from other units/divisions/offices to discuss ethical issues.

Question 18

Police departments, prosecutors' offices, public defenders' offices, the courts, prisons, probation and parole departments, and research institutions are all ________________.

Question 19

________________ refers to the goals to be achieved by an agency that provide direction but also serve as constraints or limits on the behavior of members.

Question 20

_______________ describes the process by which new members group acquire the attitudes and behaviors of the agency and includes both formal training and informal interactions with other agency members.

Question 21

Organizations are collectives of individuals organized into groups with identifiable boundaries and internal structures, engaging in activities designed to achieve a set of goals.

Question 22

Importance/usefulness dilemma is the establishment of different qualifications as absolute requirements

Question 23

Bona fide occupational qualifications state the more important is the performance evaluation for a candidate's career, the greater the likelihood evaluators are not going to provide useful distinctions among candidates.

Question 24

Ethical proactivity notes that as part of the operational mandate, members of a unit meet with representatives from other units/divisions/offices in the agency to discuss ethical issues.

Question 25

Just means is a balance in the personal ideologies and values of recruits.

Question 26

Ethical proactivity notes that administrators, managers, and supervisors have to model appropriate behavior

Question 27

Division of labor contains many competing and conflicting purposes.

Question 28

Organizational structure notes that organizations possess a mix of interrelated labor processes that are both separated from one another yet are coordinated by managerial authority.

Question 29

Hiring toward the community is part of the operational mandate of units.

Question 30

The organizational context of ethics is not important to the future of criminal justice ethics.

Question 31

Have your personal views on criminal justice ethics changed as a result of what you have learned in this course? Explain how/why your views changed or remained the same.

Question 32

Discuss the "prescription for the future" of criminal justice ethics. In your answer, identify the major parts of the prescription and why each is important.

Question 33

Why is "modeling ethics" so important in criminal justice ethics? Explain.