Deck 1: The Crime Problem

Question 1

Crime in generally considered to be a problem in the U.S

Answer 1

True

Question 2

President Lyndon Johnson appointed a commission to study crime in 1965

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Most Americans believe crime is declining

Answer 3

False

Question 4

America is the only country that has a crime problem

Question 5

Each society has had to analyze the crime problem and develop a theory that would lead to the implementation of laws or policies that would attempt to contain or decrease the crime problem

Question 6

Crime and intelligence analysis typically takes the approach of examining the offenders' behaviour

Question 7

The term intelligence refers to the data available to, collected by, or disseminated through the tactical crime analyst

Question 8

A real-time setting or a real-time crime center refers to the location where many tactical crime analysts play video games

Question 9

The term Intelligence analysis refers to what the tactical crime analyst does in his or her position

Question 10

An Intelligence Analyst continually evaluates and analyzes data in order to provide the most useful possible information to police officers

Question 11

We know that criminal justice systems were in place in some countries several thousand years ago. All of the following illustrate this except for:

A) Hammurabi established a criminal code in Mesopotamia in 2100 BC
B) In the sixth century BC, the Athenians created a system of "popular courts"
C) The Romans had Twelve Tables, which codified the laws, in 452 AD
D) In America, President Johnson established a crime commission in 1965

Question 12

Today, the U.S. has an evolved criminal justice system that is:

A) Multi-layered and sophisticated
B) Crude and poorly developed
C) Barbaric and designed to harm children
D) Sophisticated in its evil intent

Question 13

Cesare Beccaria is known as:

A) The man who invented juvenile courts
B) The founder of classical criminology
C) The who started The Humane Society and Child Protection agency
D) The founder of capital punishment

Question 14

Beccaria's philosophy, which is spelled out in his book, On Crimes and Punishment, was that:

A) People are irrational and deserve harsh punishments
B) People have mental health problems and should be exempt from laws and punishments
C) People are rational and they do things that bring them pleasure; they avoid doing things which bring them pain
D) People learn best when they are threatened with long punishments and hard labor

Question 15

According to Cesare Beccaria, since people are rational and think before acting, punishment for criminal behavior should be:

A) Certain and swift with appropriate duration and intensity
B) Arbitrary and harsh
C) Of sufficient duration to teach the offender a valuable lesson
D) Decided by judges who are experts at being rational

Question 16

Since Beccaria's time, ______________ of theories of criminology and criminal behavior have been developed.

A) About 10
B) Thousands
C) Two or three
D) Dozens

Question 17

One contemporary theory of criminal behavior comes from Samuel Yochelson and Stanton Samenow, who propose that:

A) Criminals are biologically different from the rest of us
B) Criminals have no choice when it comes to criminal offending
C) Criminals freely choose their behavior in a quest for power, control and excitement
D) Criminals have serious mental health issues

Question 18

Most criminological theories are concerned with why:

A) People are murderous
B) Individuals commit crimes
C) People are evil
D) Individuals feel guilty about their behavior

Question 19

Modus operandi means:

A) The typical patterns used in the commission of a crime by offenders
B) How people operate when interacting with others
C) The mode of trying to get away with a crime
D) The forensic evidence left by the criminal

Question 20

The Analysis Triangle is:

A) A geometric figure useful in math analysis
B) A way of determining who committed a crime
C) A useful illustration that suggests a theory for linking crime and criminal behavior to external factors
D) An example of how forensic evidence is obtained

Question 21

SARA is a model developed by Professor Herman Goldstein at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to:

A) Enhance the problem-solving approach to policing
B) Describe the way police officers use force
C) Bring responsible leadership to police departments
D) Determine who is guilty in a crime

Question 22

The term "SARA" is an acronym that stands for:

A) Sisters, Analyzing, Response & Attitude
B) Scanning, Analysis, Respect & Authority
C) Safety, Attitude, Respect & Assessment
D) Scanning, analysis, response, & assessment

Question 23

This course is about:

A) How crime analysts learn to work independently from police officers & detectives
B) Eliminating police corruption
C) This course is about how crime analysts work and what they need to know in order to provide critical and vital information to police officers
D) Dealing with stress when solving crimes