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Q:
The branch of forensic science that identifies corpses through dental examination is called forensic:
a. toxicology.
b. pathology.
c. physical anthropology.
d. odontology.
Q:
80% of the jails in the United States have a ______________ jurisdiction.
Q:
What is used in the examination of guns and bullets?
a. ballistics
b. serology
c. criminalistics
d. chemistry
Q:
When a program increases the scope of corrections, it is said to be ___________.
Q:
The primary personnel problem facing jail administrators is probably a combination of ________ and poor working conditions.
Q:
The period__________ after arrest and detention is when most inmates commit suicide.
Q:
Roughly one-quarter of the occupants in U.S. jails are _________detainees.
Q:
What is used in the examination of blood, semen, and other body fluids?
a. ballistics
b. serology
c. criminalistics
d. chemistry
Q:
_________ defendants often have higher appearance rates than those freed through bail.
Q:
What is used in the examination of hairs, fibers, and fingernail scrapings?
a. ballistics
b. serology
c. criminalistics
d. chemistry
Q:
Half of all people placed in jail were under the influence of ___________ and _____________ at the time of arrest.
Q:
A majority of inmates are under 35 years old, white, low income and _______________.
Q:
Detaining the accused in jail to protect the community from possible future crimes by the accused pending trial is known as _________.
Q:
Three quarters of all jails are operated by an elected official known as a ____________.
Q:
Eighty percent of the jails in the United States are operated at the_________ level.
Q:
What is used in the examination of marijuana, cocaine, and heroin?
a. serology
b. criminalistics
c. chemistry
d. document analysis
Q:
When a program increases the scope of corrections, it is said to be_________ .
Q:
What can be used in the examination of possible forgeries?
a. serology
b. criminalistics
c. chemistry
d. document analysis.
Q:
Thermal imaging detectors are used:
a. to measure skid marks at crash scenes.
b. for perimeter surveillance.
c. to locate fugitives and for search and rescue.
d. all of these choices
Q:
Pretrial detainees need access to legal assistance.
Q:
The most pressing medical problem in jails is the problem AIDS and HIV.
Q:
The primary personnel problem facing jail administrators is probably a combination of_________ and poor working conditions.
Q:
Thermal imaging is a form of:
a. radio communication.
b. oleoresin capsicum.
c. infrared technology.
d. computer database programming.
Q:
One of the problems for pretrial detainees is the way they look in court.
Q:
_________ defendants often have higher appearance rates than those freed through bail.
Q:
Fingerprint ridge impressions left on a soft material such as putty, wax, soap, or dust are called:
a. plastic prints.
b. latent prints.
c. acoustic prints.
d. seated prints.
Q:
Half of all people placed in jail were under the influence of _________or at the time of arrest.
Q:
90% of all jail inmates are considered indigent and cannot afford counsel.
Q:
Jails around the nation are pretty much the same.
Q:
A majority of inmates are under 35 years old, white, low income, and_________ .
Q:
The use of the Taser was upheld in court in:
a. Nolte v. United States
b. King v. Taser, Inc.
c. Michenfelder v. Sumner.
d. Scott v. Maryland.
Q:
Which of the following is nota nonlethal weapon being used by the police today?
a. chemical sprays
b. irritant sprays
c. Tasers
d. lasers
Q:
Three-quarters of all jails are operated by an elected official known as a_________ .
Q:
One in seven jails in the United States currently operates under a court order, typically related to overcrowding.
Q:
a.Staff has direct contact with offenders
b. Prosecutor makes a deal with defendant to steer clear of incapacitation
c. Protection to the community by incarcerating an offender
d. Supervision under home confinement
e. Holding tanks for up to 48 hours
f. Person who provides bail money for a fee
g. Rehabilitative jail experience
h. Pretrial and probation violators report daily
i. Funded per prisoner per day
j. Feespecified by a judge as a condition for pretrial release
Pretrial diversion
Q:
The average delay between arrest and sentencing is more than six months for inmates.
Q:
can be used to lift prints from surfaces that often defy traditional powder or chemical techniques, including glass, paper, cardboard, rubber, wood, and even human skin.
a. Microchips
b. Robotics
c. X-rays
d. Lasers
Q:
Many jails in this country have no viable rehabilitative programs, and have very few trained personnel to deal with the mental health needs of most offenders.
Q:
a.Staff has direct contact with offenders
b. Prosecutor makes a deal with defendant to steer clear of incapacitation
c. Protection to the community by incarcerating an offender
d. Supervision under home confinement
e. Holding tanks for up to 48 hours
f. Person who provides bail money for a fee
g. Rehabilitative jail experience
h. Pretrial and probation violators report daily
i. Funded per prisoner per day
j. Feespecified by a judge as a condition for pretrial release
Therapeutic justice
Q:
Live Scan is a(n) scanning system.
a. ink and
b. optical fingerprint
c. retinal
d. data entry
Q:
Jails are an important part of corrections and demonstrate many complexities of the system.
Q:
a.Staff has direct contact with offenders
b. Prosecutor makes a deal with defendant to steer clear of incapacitation
c. Protection to the community by incarcerating an offender
d. Supervision under home confinement
e. Holding tanks for up to 48 hours
f. Person who provides bail money for a fee
g. Rehabilitative jail experience
h. Pretrial and probation violators report daily
i. Funded per prisoner per day
j. Feespecified by a judge as a condition for pretrial release
Prevention detention
Q:
AFIS means:
a. automated fingerprint identification systems.
b. automatic fingerprint identification systems.
c. automated fingerprint information systems.
d. automatic fingerprint information systems.
Q:
a.Staff has direct contact with offenders
b. Prosecutor makes a deal with defendant to steer clear of incapacitation
c. Protection to the community by incarcerating an offender
d. Supervision under home confinement
e. Holding tanks for up to 48 hours
f. Person who provides bail money for a fee
g. Rehabilitative jail experience
h. Pretrial and probation violators report daily
i. Funded per prisoner per day
j. Feespecified by a judge as a condition for pretrial release
Lockup
Q:
Most jails in the United States hold fewer than 50 people.
Q:
. Which of the following is not one of the major issues involved in patrol allocation?
a. determining which officer to assign to each beat
b. determining the number of patrol units needed in each precinct, at each time of the day, and for each day of the week
c. designing patrol beats
d. developing policies to dispatch and redeploy patrol units
Q:
Many, if not most, defendants are:
a. indigent.
b. clueless.
c. white.
d. female.
Q:
a.Staff has direct contact with offenders
b. Prosecutor makes a deal with defendant to steer clear of incapacitation
c. Protection to the community by incarcerating an offender
d. Supervision under home confinement
e. Holding tanks for up to 48 hours
f. Person who provides bail money for a fee
g. Rehabilitative jail experience
h. Pretrial and probation violators report daily
i. Funded per prisoner per day
j. Feespecified by a judge as a condition for pretrial release
Electronic monitoring
Q:
Those systems that provide information needed for supervisory, allocation, strategic, tactical, policy, and administrative decisions are:
a. administrative information systems.
b. integrative information systems.
c. automated administrative systems.
d. management information systems.
Q:
a.Staff has direct contact with offenders
b. Prosecutor makes a deal with defendant to steer clear of incapacitation
c. Protection to the community by incarcerating an offender
d. Supervision under home confinement
e. Holding tanks for up to 48 hours
f. Person who provides bail money for a fee
g. Rehabilitative jail experience
h. Pretrial and probation violators report daily
i. Funded per prisoner per day
j. Feespecified by a judge as a condition for pretrial release
Direct supervision
Q:
In using the computerized database referred to as CATCH, detectives feed in the suspect's:
a. description and last-known location.
b. description and modus operandi.
c. fingerprints and last-known location.
d. photograph and method of operation.
Q:
Who is less likely to be released on their own recognizance?
a. African Americans
b. Women
c. Latinas
d. Whites
Q:
Recently, there has been a major emphasis on programs to __________ offenders awaiting trial.
a. treat
b. convict
c. sentence
d. release
Q:
Mug shot is a system of digitizing a picture and storing its image on a computer so that it can be retrieved at a later time.
a. digitizing
b. storing
c. imaging
d. xeroxing
Q:
a.Staff has direct contact with offenders
b. Prosecutor makes a deal with defendant to steer clear of incapacitation
c. Protection to the community by incarcerating an offender
d. Supervision under home confinement
e. Holding tanks for up to 48 hours
f. Person who provides bail money for a fee
g. Rehabilitative jail experience
h. Pretrial and probation violators report daily
i. Funded per prisoner per day
j. Feespecified by a judge as a condition for pretrial release
Bail
Q:
Local correctional workers are:
a. overeducated
b. paid above average for the criminal justice system
c. poorly trained
d. mostly doing clerical work
Q:
The computerized mug shot database created by the New York City Police Department and used to investigate robberies is called:
a. CATCH
b. HITS/SMART
c. HOLMES
d. SHERLOCK
Q:
a.Staff has direct contact with offenders
b. Prosecutor makes a deal with defendant to steer clear of incapacitation
c. Protection to the community by incarcerating an offender
d. Supervision under home confinement
e. Holding tanks for up to 48 hours
f. Person who provides bail money for a fee
g. Rehabilitative jail experience
h. Pretrial and probation violators report daily
i. Funded per prisoner per day
j. Feespecified by a judge as a condition for pretrial release
Fee system
Q:
The computer database used by Washington State investigators to analyze characteristics of murders and sexual offenses is called:
a. CATCH
b. HITS/SMART
c. HOLMES
d. SHERLOCK
Q:
More than half of all jail occupants are:
a. mentally ill.
b. addicted to drugs.
c. awaiting trial.
d. guilty.
Q:
At least _________ people are detained in a jail at some time during the year.
a. 2 to 3 million
b. 4 to 6 million
c. 7 to 8 million
d. 10 million
Q:
The computer-aided investigation system developed for British investigators is called:
a. CATCH
b. HITS/SMART
c. HOLMES
d. SHERLOCK
Q:
a.Staff has direct contact with offenders
b. Prosecutor makes a deal with defendant to steer clear of incapacitation
c. Protection to the community by incarcerating an offender
d. Supervision under home confinement
e. Holding tanks for up to 48 hours
f. Person who provides bail money for a fee
g. Rehabilitative jail experience
h. Pretrial and probation violators report daily
i. Funded per prisoner per day
j. Feespecified by a judge as a condition for pretrial release
Day reporting center
Q:
a.Staff has direct contact with offenders
b. Prosecutor makes a deal with defendant to steer clear of incapacitation
c. Protection to the community by incarcerating an offender
d. Supervision under home confinement
e. Holding tanks for up to 48 hours
f. Person who provides bail money for a fee
g. Rehabilitative jail experience
h. Pretrial and probation violators report daily
i. Funded per prisoner per day
j. Feespecified by a judge as a condition for pretrial release
Bondsman
Q:
According to your authors, which of the following does NOT describe local jail officers and staff employed in the United States today?
a. worst paid
b. poorly trained
c. prior criminal history
d. least educated
Q:
The jail rate is highest in the:
a. East and South.
b. West and South.
c. West and North.
d. East and North.
Q:
Marks made by fingers touching a surface after the ridges have been in contact with a colored material such as blood, paint, grease, or ink are called:
a. visible prints.
b. latent prints.
c. plastic prints.
d. acoustic prints.
Q:
The Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP) database contains information on:
a. persons arrested for violent crime.
b. persons wanted for violent crime.
c. victims of violent crime.
d. unsolved homicides.
Q:
Therapeutic justice is a philosophy of reorienting the jail experience from being mostly punitive to being mostly:
a. rehabilitative
b. reintegrative
c. reinforced
d. shaming
Q:
In the 1800s jails began to change in response to:
a. the penitentiary movement.
b. the king's wishes.
c. capitalism.
d. overcrowding.
Q:
The ________________ model refers to an innovative jail model that promotes a sense of community among staff and inmates alike and centers upon rehabilitation.
a. restorative
b. community
c. therapeutic
d. reintegrative
Q:
Which of the following is NOT a common characteristic of America's current jail population?
a. employed
b. poor
c. young
d. black
Q:
The NCIC is operated by the:
a. Secret Service.
b. U.S. Marshals Service.
c. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
d. National Criminal Justice Reference Service.
Q:
a. Apply objective criteria to all prisoners
b. IQs of less than 70 criminal conduct
c. Person who sees criminality as their life correctional treatment
d. Mental patient returns to the community
e. Susan Smith is one
f. Confined for life or until cured
g. Classification based on possible future
h. Classification based on appropriate
i. Classification based on seriousness of crime
j. person spends more than 10 years incarcerated
1) Deinstitutionalization
2) Civil commitment
3) Classification systems
4) Offense criteria
5) Risk criteria
6) Situational offender
7) career criminal
8) Mentally handicapped
9) long term prisoner
10) Program criteria
Q:
NCIC means:
a. National Crime Investigation Center.
b. National Criminal Information Center.
c. National Crime Information Center.
d. National Criminal Investigation Center.
Q:
Nearly _______________ of all jail inmates have a history of mental problems.
a. one-half
b. one-quarter
c. one-fifth
d. two-thirds
Q:
When the justice system brings the more serious cases forward for more severe punishments, it acts as a selective _________.
Q:
A person who in a particular set of circumstances has violated the law but is not normally given to criminal behavior and who is unlikely to repeat the offense is the ___________.
Q:
The National Crime Information Center (NCIC) collects and retrieves data about:
a. persons wanted for crimes anywhere in the United States.
b. stolen and lost property.
c. criminal history files.
d. all of these choices
Q:
One of the most troubling trends in jails is the rate of incarceration for:
a. Latinos.
b. blacks.
c. blacks
d. children.