Deck 8: Offender Targeting Strategies

Question 1

The cooperative effort between the Chicago Police Department and the Illinois Department of Corrections included

A) parolees reporting directly to the police department.
B) police enforcement of parole conditions.
C) police assisting with job placement.
D) police officers accompanying parole officers on home visits.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The relative cost of surveillance versus other enforcement approaches is characterized by which of the following terms?

A) very cheap
B) relatively inexpensive
C) comparable
D) very expensive

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The phrase from the classic film Casablanca that is relevant to offender-based interventions is

A) "Play it Sam, play 'As Time Goes By.'"
B) "Of all the gin joints, she walks into mine."
C) "Round up the usual suspects."
D) "Here's looking at you, kid."

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The most frequently used enforcement approach to suppress behaviors of offenders creating disorder is

A) intensive field interviews.
B) broken windows enforcement.
C) decoy operations.
D) surveillance apprehension.

Question 5

A common offender-based intervention is focused on

A) offenders creating disorder.
B) traffic offenders.
C) identity thieves.
D) transnational offenders.

Question 6

Among the offensive behaviors with an economic base is

A) vandalism.
B) vagrancy.
C) drunkenness.
D) panhandling.

Question 7

Lever pulling is an enforcement approach typically focused on

A) deterring preteens from joining a gang.
B) property offenses committed by youth gangs.
C) chronically offending gang-involved youth.
D) networked adult street gangs.

Question 8

Today's networked adult street gangs,in comparison to the mafia,are

A) less destructive.
B) more selective in recruiting members.
C) more discrete.
D) far more destructive.

Question 9

Interference with nuisance behaviors with an economic base is suggested as more cost effective than arrest in

A) some settings.
B) downtowns.
C) subways.
D) every instance.

Question 10

The ease of maintaining the secrecy of surveillance of a person is best characterized as

A) very easy.
B) relatively easy.
C) very difficult.
D) dependent on the situation.

Question 11

The effectiveness of broken windows enforcement is open to debate,or unclear,in what setting?

A) New York City
B) subways
C) horizontal cities west of the Mississippi River
D) densely populated areas

Question 12

The least serious of the behaviors associated with offenders creating disorder is

A) obtrusive panhandling.
B) aggressive panhandling.
C) solicitation for prostitution.
D) solicitation for drugs.

Question 13

Research that correlated the extent of broken windows enforcement with various categories of Part I crime found that,in general,broken windows enforcement

A) impacts only Part II crimes.
B) is irrelevant.
C) is ineffective.
D) is effective.

Question 14

Arrest frequencies for individuals released after a penitentiary sentence are ___________ than for the general population.

A) two to three times higher
B) five to ten times higher
C) thirty to forty-five times higher
D) lower

Question 15

The emotions experienced by officers assigned to undercover surveillance are best described by the term

A) tedious.
B) exhilarating.
C) feverish.
D) overwrought.

Question 16

Of the following,broken windows enforcement is best suited to targeting

A) violent crime.
B) property crime.
C) street incivilities.
D) drug sales.

Question 17

The most serious of the behaviors associated with offenders creating disorder is

A) obtrusive panhandling.
B) aggressive panhandling.
C) solicitation for prostitution.
D) threatening stares.

Question 18

Individuals engaged in street-side prostitution avoid arrest because they fear

A) the traumatic experience of incarceration.
B) the disruption of economic enterprise.
C) a lengthy penitentiary sentence.
D) damage to their reputation.

Question 19

In an evaluation of Fort Worth's successful Compstat effort,broken windows enforcement was found to be

A) a critical component of Compstat.
B) totally irrelevant to Compstat.
C) limited to drunkenness arrests in hot spots.
D) alienating to citizens.

Question 20

It is asserted that both organizationally and strategically specialized gang units in police departments are

A) tightly integrated.
B) decoupled.
C) interwoven.
D) focused.