CRJU110 Introduction to Criminal
Justice Study Guide – Exam I
The following 70 statements represent the multiple choice
items on exam I, stripped of the answers. You are cautioned that this guide is
intended only as a supplement to, NOT as a replacement for, the careful reading
and study of Chapters 1,2,4,5 of your text.
Chapter 1
1. Which of the following is an incorrect statement?
2. Which American president launched the "war on crime"?
3. Which of the following was not an element of the "war on
crime" outlined in 1965 by the president in his message to the 89th
Congress?
4. The recommendations of the President's Commission on Law Enforcement
and Administration of Justice were disappointing because
5. Those scholars who had spent their life studying crime were acutely
disappointed with the President's suggestion that poverty was one of the most
important causes of crime and therefore should be a target of the "war on
crime." Why?
6. Which federal agency was created to lead the "war on
crime"?
7. Of the following, which was the purpose of the LEAA?
8. The main criticism targeted against the LEAA was that it
9. The LEAA was most effective in
10. According to the Twentieth Century
Fund Task Force, which among the following was one of the more successful
programs of the LEAA?
11. The Omnibus Crime Control and Safe
Streets Act of 1968 was considered by many to be a "bad law" because
12. The ________________ was a piece
of federal "law and order" legislation that was viewed by many as a
political maneuver aimed at allaying fears of crime rather than bringing about
criminal justice reform.
13. Criminal justice refers to
14. Political scientist James Q.
Wilson targeted the peculiarity of the poverty-crime nexus in his phrase:
15. In the 1960s, the Warren Court
announced a number of decisions that were in accord with the due process model
of the criminal justice system, one decision after another lead toward the
incorporation of the Bill of Rights through the _______________________ clause
of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Chapter 2
16. Natural law is best described as
17. Although its meaning may vary from
one culture to the next, __________ appears to be an almost universal taboo.
18. According to sociological
conceptions of deviance, which of the following statements is not true?
19. American criminal law is based on
20. Which of the following definitions
of crime offered by lawyer and sociologist Paul W. Tappan is the accepted definition
in the text?
21. According to federal statutes,
which of the following elements does not have to be present for the crime of
conspiracy to exist?
a. an act of agreement between more than two people
22. The examination of the evolution of
natural law conducted by criminologist Hermann Mannheim concluded that
23. In _________________, the U.S.
Supreme Court reversed a lower court decision on the grounds that offenses such
as "being addicted to the use of narcotics" were unconstitutional and
that imprisonment for such an offense was cruel and unusual punishment in
violation of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution.
24. __________ is present when one can
gather from the circumstances of the crime that the offender must have desired
the prohibited result.
25. Common law refers to
26. In Durham v. United
States, the matter under argument was
27. Which of the following would be
considered a "consentable crime"?
28. A law against sexual intercourse
would most certainly never be passed because
29. __________ is considered a mala
in se crime.
30. Your neighbor is arrested,
convicted, and sentenced to a term of 50 years in a state prison. He has been
convicted of a(n)
31. The sociological view of deviance
and crime suggests that
Chapter 4
61. The __________ was initially
responsible for the establishment of the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR).
62. The Uniform Crime Reports
are a product of the
63. As early as 1932, J. Edgar Hoover
was boasting in his congressional testimony that the purpose of the Uniform
Crime Reports was to
64. Which of the following statements
is inaccurate regarding the Uniform Crime Reports?
65. The ____________ are the primary
sources of statistical data on crime today.
66. The Uniform Crime Reports
are based on
67. Which of the following is not a Uniform
Crime Report Part I offense?
68. "Crime clocks" in the Uniform
Crime Reports should be viewed with caution because
69. Which one of the following is not
a Uniform Crime Report Part II offense?
70. The sum of all Part I offenses in
the Uniform Crime Reports during a given period of time is known as the
71. Generally speaking, how do the UCR
estimates of the volume of annual rates of crime compare to the actual
frequencies of such occurrences?
72. UCR estimates are most accurate in
the area of
73. Which of the following factors is
most likely to contribute to the unreliability of the estimates of crime
indicated in the UCR?
74. In 1965, in an effort to determine
the parameters of crime that did not appear in official criminal statistics,
the __________ initiated the first national survey of crime victimization.
75. Victimization survey interviewers
contact households, asking whether the person questioned, or any member of his
or her household
76. Victimization surveys have
demonstrated that
77. According to the National Crime
Survey (NCS), the major reason why victims did not report crimes to the
police was because they
78. UCR and NCS data are easy
to compare because
79. Which of the following is the
greatest weakness or problem with victimization studies?
80. In survey research,
___________refers to the precision or accuracy of the instruments used to
measure and record the phenomenon under study.
Chapter 5
81. The inquisitorial system of
justice was characterized by
82. Under the modern _________ system of
justice, all persons are obliged to cooperate with the court in its quest for
truth.
83. In the ___________ court, the
judge is an impartial arbiter between the prosecution and the defense.
84. In which amendment(s) to the
Constitution of the United States can we find the "due process"
clause?
85. ___________ was the author of the
Bill of Rights.
86. Which of the following was the
major significance of the Bill of Rights?
87. Substantive due process refers to
88. The subject matter of the law is
most specifically covered by
89. In general, which of the following
is not a matter of procedural due process?
90. Who of the following has the
authority to issue an arrest warrant?
91. What level of proof or knowledge
of a crime and its possible perpetrator must a police officer have before he or
she is authorized to make an arrest?
92. Fingerprinting generally occurs at
the point of
93. What is the most common form of
temporary release?
94. Formal notice of the charge is
given at the
95. A plea is entered at the
96. At the preliminary hearing, the
judge does not
97. An "information" is
filed by a
98. The most common method for
bringing formal charges against an accused is a(n)
99. Nob contendere is
100. A judge may reject a guilty plea
if