Deck 9: Behavior and Misconduct

Question 1

Which of the following is NOT an element of police abuse of authority?

A) Officers may physically abuse others through the use of excessive force.
B) Officers may psychologically abuse citizens through the use of verbal assault, harassment, or ridicule.
C) Officers may violate a citizen's constitutional, federal, or state rights.
D) All of the above are elements.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

In the varieties of police behavior, this style, __________, affords the officer a great deal of latitude in how to handle certain problems. It may include doing nothing at all.

A) legalistic style
B) service style
C) watchman style
D) none of the above

Answer 2

C

Question 3

The behavior of a police officer is explained by the characteristics, values, and attitudes that the individual officer had before becoming a police officer. This is known as what?

A) Culture
B) Predispositional theory
C) Legalistic style
D) Discretion

Answer 3

B

Question 4

In this policing style, the police see themselves as providing a product that the community wants:

A) Legalistic style
B) Service style
C) Watchman style
D) None of the above

Question 5

In the making of a policeman, this stage involves the police academy experience:

A) Pre-entry choice
B) Introduction
C) Encounter
D) Metamorphosis

Question 6

In the making of a policeman, this stage involves the officer adjusting to the reality of police work:

A) Pre-entry choice
B) Introduction
C) Encounter
D) Metamorphosis

Question 7

Which of the following is NOT an individual officer variable that influences decision-making?

A) Education
B) Age
C) Race and gender
D) None of the above

Question 8

Pre-dispositional theory contains a number of central principles. Which of the following is not one of those principles?

A) Police officers have distinctively different values from other groups in American society.
B) Police values are greatly impacted by occupational socialization.
C) The values carried by police officers are stable over time.
D) Education has little impact on values held by police officers.

Question 9

This investigative body looked at corruption in the New York City Police Department in the 1960s and 1970s:

A) Lexow Committee
B) Knapp Commission
C) Barker Board
D) Roberg Committee

Question 10

Among the elements of police culture, one principle states that the police develop strategies and tactics to protect themselves when department goals are perceived to undermine their ability to do their work. What is this principle?

A) Coercive territorial control
B) Unknown
C) Loose coupling
D) Solidarity

Question 11

Worden identified five ways in which the police are different from one another. One way is concerned with cynicism. This would be part of what way?

A) View of human nature
B) Different role orientations
C) Different attitudes toward legal and departmental restrictions
D) Peer group support

Question 12

Another of the ways the police are different from one another is concerned with making the ends justify the means. This would be part of what way?

A) View of human nature
B) Different role orientations
C) Different attitudes toward legal and departmental restrictions
D) Peer group support

Question 13

The research conducted concerning police values seems to support what?

A) Predispositional theory
B) Socialization theory
C) Metamorphosis
D) Encounter

Question 14

In-group solidarity results from __________.

A) the perception that partners cannot be trusted
B) the perception that supervisors cannot be trusted
C) the perception that the public cannot be trusted
D) the perception that criminals cannot be trusted

Question 15

According to Worden's research on police behavior, which of the following statements is true?

A) Police officers are not psychologically homogeneous.
B) They are always intensely loyal to one another and preoccupied with order.
C) They are all suspicious, secretive, cynical, and authoritarian.
D) All of the above are true.

Question 16

In the attempt to explain police behavior, this perspective is concerned with the nature of the "police personality":

A) Organizational perspective
B) Particularistic perspective
C) Sociological perspective
D) Psychological perspective

Question 17

Which of the following is NOT a principle of police culture?

A) Coercive territorial control
B) The unknown
C) Solidarity
D) All are principles of police culture

Question 18

In the typology of deviant officers, these officers are honest but willing to overlook some of the indiscretions of other officers:

A) White knights
B) Rogues
C) Meat eaters
D) Straight shooters

Question 19

In the typology of deviant officers, these officers actively seek out opportunities for corruption:

A) Grass eaters
B) White knights
C) Meat eaters
D) Straight shooters

Question 20

Subjugation of a defendant's rights involves __________.

A) officers who seek personal monetary gain
B) officers who use illegal drugs
C) officers who use force to extract a confession
D) officers who obtain a conviction through perjury or "flaking," or the planting of drugs on a suspect by a police officers to acquire evidence

Question 21

The characteristics of the complainant may influence the discretion of the police officer.

Question 22

Police deviance is behavior that does not conform to the standards of norms or expectations.

Question 23

If there is a close relationship between the complainant and the offender, the police are more likely to take official action, such as an arrest.

Question 24

Solidarity is produced by the dangers and unpredictability of police work and from the intense individualism that is part of the police ethos.

Question 25

Education has little impact on values held by police officers.

Question 26

Meat eaters are police officers who accept graft when it comes their way but do not actively pursue opportunities for graft.

Question 27

The legalistic style of policing involves police intervening frequently but informally, with arrest not being an inevitable outcome.

Question 28

A symbolic assailant is someone that a police officer thinks is potentially dangerous.

Question 29

Research has found that community-policing officers were more likely to use victim preference when making an arrest decision than their more traditional counterpart.

Question 30

Solidarity is an intense bonding that police officers feel for one another.

Question 31

The socioeconomic status of individuals is an important factor regarding police discretion.

Question 32

According to Brown, old-style crime fighters are very aggressive and tend to be selective, concentrating primarily on felonies.

Question 33

Officers with more favorable attitudes toward community policing were more selective in making arrests compared to those officers with less favorable attitudes.

Question 34

Neighborhood variables do not have any meaningful impact on police officer performance.

Question 35

Planting evidence on a suspect is known as flaking.

Question 36

Predispositional theory focuses on the idea that the policing occupation attracts people with certain attitudes and beliefs.

Question 37

According to Van Maanen, it is during the introduction stage that the officer adjusts to the reality of police work.

Question 38

The systemic theory of corruption tends to support the sociological perspective of police behavior.

Question 39

Noble-cause corruption and economic corruption may be inversely related.

Question 40

The code of silence pertains to police administrators and their inability to share information with patrol officers.

Question 41

Police deviance is said to be behavior that does not conform to the standards of norms or expectations. Identify and discuss the three major sources of those standards. Is one source more important than the others?

Question 42

What are four individual factors that influence police officers' use of discretion?

Question 43

Contrast socialization theory and predispositional theory.

Question 44

There are a number of factors that influence police discretion. List and discuss four variables from the situational factors.

Question 45

Neighborhood variables influence police performance. What variables matter and how?

Question 46

Matching
-Predispositional theory

A) The person the police officer thinks is potentially dangerous
B) The use of police power and authority for personal gain
C) Police abandon ethical means in order to achieve good ends
D) Activity that does not conform to standards and committed during the course of normal work activity
E) Behavior is explained by attitudes and values held before being employed
F) Proactive police actions that relies on race or ethnicity rather than behavior
G) Behavior is determined more by work and peers than preemployment values
H) Acceptance of something of value
I) Planting drugs on a suspect
J) Corruption stems from the nature of police work

Question 47

Matching
-Gratuity

A) The person the police officer thinks is potentially dangerous
B) The use of police power and authority for personal gain
C) Police abandon ethical means in order to achieve good ends
D) Activity that does not conform to standards and committed during the course of normal work activity
E) Behavior is explained by attitudes and values held before being employed
F) Proactive police actions that relies on race or ethnicity rather than behavior
G) Behavior is determined more by work and peers than preemployment values
H) Acceptance of something of value
I) Planting drugs on a suspect
J) Corruption stems from the nature of police work

Question 48

Matching
-Racial profiling

A) The person the police officer thinks is potentially dangerous
B) The use of police power and authority for personal gain
C) Police abandon ethical means in order to achieve good ends
D) Activity that does not conform to standards and committed during the course of normal work activity
E) Behavior is explained by attitudes and values held before being employed
F) Proactive police actions that relies on race or ethnicity rather than behavior
G) Behavior is determined more by work and peers than preemployment values
H) Acceptance of something of value
I) Planting drugs on a suspect
J) Corruption stems from the nature of police work

Question 49

Matching
-Police corruption

A) The person the police officer thinks is potentially dangerous
B) The use of police power and authority for personal gain
C) Police abandon ethical means in order to achieve good ends
D) Activity that does not conform to standards and committed during the course of normal work activity
E) Behavior is explained by attitudes and values held before being employed
F) Proactive police actions that relies on race or ethnicity rather than behavior
G) Behavior is determined more by work and peers than preemployment values
H) Acceptance of something of value
I) Planting drugs on a suspect
J) Corruption stems from the nature of police work

Question 50

Matching
-Socialization theory

A) The person the police officer thinks is potentially dangerous
B) The use of police power and authority for personal gain
C) Police abandon ethical means in order to achieve good ends
D) Activity that does not conform to standards and committed during the course of normal work activity
E) Behavior is explained by attitudes and values held before being employed
F) Proactive police actions that relies on race or ethnicity rather than behavior
G) Behavior is determined more by work and peers than preemployment values
H) Acceptance of something of value
I) Planting drugs on a suspect
J) Corruption stems from the nature of police work

Question 51

Matching
-Occupational deviance

A) The person the police officer thinks is potentially dangerous
B) The use of police power and authority for personal gain
C) Police abandon ethical means in order to achieve good ends
D) Activity that does not conform to standards and committed during the course of normal work activity
E) Behavior is explained by attitudes and values held before being employed
F) Proactive police actions that relies on race or ethnicity rather than behavior
G) Behavior is determined more by work and peers than preemployment values
H) Acceptance of something of value
I) Planting drugs on a suspect
J) Corruption stems from the nature of police work

Question 52

Matching
-Noble cause corruption

A) The person the police officer thinks is potentially dangerous
B) The use of police power and authority for personal gain
C) Police abandon ethical means in order to achieve good ends
D) Activity that does not conform to standards and committed during the course of normal work activity
E) Behavior is explained by attitudes and values held before being employed
F) Proactive police actions that relies on race or ethnicity rather than behavior
G) Behavior is determined more by work and peers than preemployment values
H) Acceptance of something of value
I) Planting drugs on a suspect
J) Corruption stems from the nature of police work

Question 53

Matching
-Symbolic assailant

A) The person the police officer thinks is potentially dangerous
B) The use of police power and authority for personal gain
C) Police abandon ethical means in order to achieve good ends
D) Activity that does not conform to standards and committed during the course of normal work activity
E) Behavior is explained by attitudes and values held before being employed
F) Proactive police actions that relies on race or ethnicity rather than behavior
G) Behavior is determined more by work and peers than preemployment values
H) Acceptance of something of value
I) Planting drugs on a suspect
J) Corruption stems from the nature of police work

Question 54

Matching
-Subjugation of defendant's rights

A) The person the police officer thinks is potentially dangerous
B) The use of police power and authority for personal gain
C) Police abandon ethical means in order to achieve good ends
D) Activity that does not conform to standards and committed during the course of normal work activity
E) Behavior is explained by attitudes and values held before being employed
F) Proactive police actions that relies on race or ethnicity rather than behavior
G) Behavior is determined more by work and peers than preemployment values
H) Acceptance of something of value
I) Planting drugs on a suspect
J) Corruption stems from the nature of police work

Question 55

Matching
-Systemic theory of corruption

A) The person the police officer thinks is potentially dangerous
B) The use of police power and authority for personal gain
C) Police abandon ethical means in order to achieve good ends
D) Activity that does not conform to standards and committed during the course of normal work activity
E) Behavior is explained by attitudes and values held before being employed
F) Proactive police actions that relies on race or ethnicity rather than behavior
G) Behavior is determined more by work and peers than preemployment values
H) Acceptance of something of value
I) Planting drugs on a suspect
J) Corruption stems from the nature of police work