What is Criminal Justice?

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Criminal Justice: A Brief Introduction, 10th Edition
Chapter 1: What Is Criminal Justice?
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2. During the 1960s and 1970s, the dominant
philosophy in American criminal justice
focused on guaranteeing the rights of criminal
defendants while seeking to understand the
root causes of crime and violence.
1. True
2. False

3. Correct answer
1. True

4. After reviewing individual rights and public
order, how do you see yourself?
1. I am an individual rights advocate
2. I am a public order advocate
3. Both; it depends on the issue or offense
4. I don’t understand the terms

5. Correct Answer
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6. This is one who seeks to protect
personal freedoms within the process of
criminal justice.
1. Public-order advocate
2. Conflict theorist
3. Individual-rights advocate
4. All the above

7. Correct Answer
3. Individual-rights advocate

8. This is a component of social justice
that concerns itself with fairness in
relationships between citizens,
government agencies, and business in
private matters.
1. Civil justice
2. Criminal justice
3. Criminology
4. Multiculturalism

9. Correct answer
1. Civil justice

10. This is a criminal justice perspective
that assumes that the system’s
components work together
harmoniously to achieve justice.
1. Conflict model
2. Crime control model
3. Interactionist model
4. Consensus model

11. Correct answer
4. Consensus model

12. Under which model could you see the
criminal justice system operating as a
nonsystem?
1. Conflict model
2. Crime control model
3. Interactionist model
4. Consensus model

13. Correct answer
1. Conflict model

14. Do you think that the criminal justice
system is operating under the
consensus model or the conflict model?
1. Consensus model
2. Conflict model

15. Correct answer
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16. Which of the following is NOT a right
guaranteed by the Bill of Rights?
1. A right to be assumed innocent until
proven guilty
2. A right to an attorney
3. A right to know the charges
4. All the above are rights guaranteed by
the Bill of Rights

17. Correct answer
4. All the above are rights guaranteed by
the Bill of Rights

18. This criminal justice perspective
emphasizes the efficient arrest and
conviction of criminal offenders.
1. Crime control model
2. Consensus model
3. Due process model
4. Conflict model

19. Correct answer
1. Crime control model

20. This criminal justice perspective
emphasizes individual rights at all
stages of justices system processing.
1. Crime control model
2. Consensus model
3. Due process model
4. Conflict model

21. Correct answer
3. Due process model

22. Should our criminal justice system be
representative of the crime control
model, the due process model, or the
crime control through due process
model?
1. Crime control
2. Due process
3. Crime control through due process

23. Correct answer
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24. This refers to crime-fighting strategies
that have been scientifically tested and
are based on social science research.
1. Crime
2. Evidence-based practice
3. Justice administration
4. Due process

25. Correct answer
2. Evidence-based practice

26. What is the scientific study of the
causes and prevention of crime and
rehabilitation and punishment of
offenders?
1. Justice administration
2. Crime control
3. Due process
4. Criminology

27. Correct answer
4. Criminology

28. Which term refers to the existence
within one society of diverse groups
that maintain unique cultural identities
while frequently accepting and
participating in the larger society’s legal
and political systems?
1. Multiculturalism
2. Ethnicity
3. Race
4. None of the above

29. Correct answer
1. Multiculturalism