Part I: THE NATURE OF CRIME, LAW, AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE.
1. Crime and Criminal Justice.
True / False
1. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation
... [Show More] (FBI), there are about 500 justified fatal police shootings each year.
This number is an increase from 5 years ago.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: Developing the Criminal Justice System
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: ESCJ.SIEG.17.01.01 - Discuss the formation of the criminal justice system in the United
States.
KEYWORDS: Remember
2. Crime is higher today than it was in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: Developing the Criminal Justice System
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: ESCJ.SIEG.17.01.01 - Discuss the formation of the criminal justice system in the United
States.
KEYWORDS: Remember
3. The Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) continues to provide grants to local and state justice agencies
to fund criminal justice activities.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: Developing the Criminal Justice System
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: ESCJ.SIEG.17.01.01 - Discuss the formation of the criminal justice system in the United
States.
KEYWORDS: Remember
4. Of the components in the Criminal Justice System, usually the correctional component comes before the other
two components.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: The Contemporary Criminal Justice System
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: ESCJ.SIEG.17.01.03 - Identify the basic component agencies of the criminal justice system.
KEYWORDS: Analyze
Test Bank for Essentials of Criminal Justice 10th Edition by
Siegel
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Essentials of Criminal Justice 10th Edition by Larry
J. Siegel – Test Bank
5. The police department was created in the United States; the first formed in Philadelphia after the Civil War.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: Developing the Criminal Justice System
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: ESCJ.SIEG.17.01.01 - Discuss the formation of the criminal justice system in the United
States.
KEYWORDS: Remember
6. The contemporary criminal justice system is society’s instrument of formal social control.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: The Contemporary Criminal Justice System
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: ESCJ.SIEG.17.01.02 - Define the concept of a criminal justice system.
KEYWORDS: Remember
7. Most criminal cases are processed through the entire formal justice system.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: The Formal Criminal Justice Process
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: ESCJ.SIEG.17.01.06 - Articulate what is meant by the term criminal justice assembly line.
KEYWORDS: Remember
8. Police officers can arrest someone if they have a “gut feeling” that the person is guilty of a criminal offense.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: The Formal Criminal Justice Process
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: ESCJ.SIEG.17.01.06 - Articulate wh [Show Less]