Exam
Name___________________________________
MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1) Before the New York police department established a board of police commissioners in 1853 which
person decided who should serve as police officers?
A) alderman
B) recorders
C) city judges
D) mayor
Answer: A
Explanation:
A)
B)
C)
D)
2) An officer of common law who was paid privately by people who wanted to avoid the obligatory
duty of police service during medieval times was known as a ________.
A) English Sheriff
B) police officer
C) U.S. Posse
D) constable
Answer: D
Explanation:
3)
A)
B)
C)
D)
4) Who is known as the father of scientific police investigation?
A) Patrick Colquhoun
B) August Vollmer
C) Pat Garrett
D) O. W. Wilson
Answer: B
Explanation:
2)
A)
B)
C)
D)
3) During the late 1800s and early 1900s the largest U.S. cities created uniformed police organizations
because of the effects of ________.
A) industrialization
B) urbanization
C) immigration
D) All of the above.
Answer: D
Explanation:
1)
A)
B)
C)
D)
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5) The primary objective of the thief-taker is to ________.
A) prosecute criminals
B) return stolen property
C) receive payment
D) apprehend criminals
E) both A and B
Answer: B
Explanation:
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
6) By 1991, how many police departments were accredited?
A) >2%
B) 195
C) both A and B
D) None of the above.
Answer: D
Explanation:
8)
A)
B)
C)
D)
9) ________ is a twelfth century system that was based on the organization of tithing and was
supervised by a sheriff who levied fines.
A) Hue and cry
B) Feudal
C) Night watch
D) Frank pledge
Answer: D
Explanation:
7)
A)
B)
C)
D)
8) Which of the following individuals is not known for being a frontier vigilante?
A) Wyatt Earp
B) Henry Fielding
C) Wild Bill Hickock
D) Bat Masterson
Answer: B
Explanation:
6)
A)
B)
C)
D)
7) According to the author, police officer standards and training organizations try to standardize and
formalize all of the following except:
A) equipment
B) hiring
C) training
D) procedures
Answer: A
Explanation:
5)
A)
B)
C)
D)
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10) The professionalization component of the reform era was marked by which important
development?
A) the introduction of science and technology
B) the changing role of police
C) the adoption of the bureaucratic model
D) the introduction of civil service
E) All of the above.
Answer: E
Explanation:
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
11) The London Metropolitan Police Department officers are called bobbies after ________.
A) William Pitt
B) Patrick Colquhoun
C) Sir Robert Peel
D) None of the above.
Answer: C
Explanation:
13)
A)
B)
C)
D)
14) The main goal of the ________ era of policing was to remove politics from policing by redefining
the role and function of the police.
A) community policing
B) political
C) reform
D) None of the above.
Answer: D
Explanation:
12)
A)
B)
C)
D)
13) Which of the following is not one of the three characteristics of U.S. law enforcement that resulted
from the English model of policing?
A) limited authority
B) local control
C) crime prevention
D) organizational fragmentation
Answer: C
Explanation:
11)
A)
B)
C)
D)
12) The stage of police development taking place from 1920-1970 is known as the ________.
A) reform era
B) political era
C) community policing era
D) None of the above.
Answer: A
Explanation:
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A)
B)
C)
D)
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15) Which ancient society used the informal system of "Kin police"?
A) English
B) Eqyptian
C) Greek
Answer: C
Explanation:
15)
D) Roman
A)
B)
C)
D)
16) The Texas Rangers and the New Mexico Mounted police are examples of ________.
A) state police agencies
B) vigilante justice committees
Answer: A
Explanation:
16)
A)
B)
17) Which of the following individuals is known for establishing the groundwork for the first modern
police force in England during the eighteenth-century?
A) Henry Fielding
B) William Pitt
C) Tom Jones
D) Johnathan Wild
Answer: A
Explanation:
A)
B)
C)
D)
18) Which of the following professional organizations represents the police profession?
A) the Academy of Criminal Justice
B) the American Bar Association
C) the American Society of Criminology
D) None of the above.
Answer: D
Explanation:
18)
A)
B)
C)
D)
19) In what year did policing move from a crime fighting focus toward a community oriented
approach?
A) 1930
B) 1970
C) 1950
D) 1980
Answer: B
Explanation:
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19)
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B)
C)
D)
SHORT ANSWER. Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question.
20) In the 1920s police began to adopt more of a ________ role because of Prohibition and the
Great Depression.
Answer: law enforcement, or crime control
Explanation:
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21) According to Lyman under feudalism both feudal lords and the ________ determined what
was a criminal violation as well as how the crime was going to be arbitrated.
21)
Answer: church
Explanation:
22) The term ________ patrol refers to the rural police in the 1800s who were charged with
tracking and apprehending slaves who had escaped from plantations and farms.
22)
Answer: slave
Explanation:
23) The term ________ comitatus refers to the sheriff's authority to coordinate the activities of
all the other police agencies.
23)
Answer: posse
Explanation:
24) The first unofficial investigative squad in England was called the ________ runners?
24)
Answer: Bow Street
Explanation:
TRUE/FALSE. Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
25) The technological revolution helped to professionalize the police, but also isolated them from the
public.
Answer:
True
Explanation:
False
26) New York police officers have always been armed.
Answer:
True
Explanation:
26)
False
27) The first school of Criminology was housed within the Department of Sociology at the University
of Pennsylvania.
Answer:
True
Explanation:
28)
False
29) In 1285 the State of Westminster mandated that every hundred men be appointed constables to
assist the sheriff.
Answer:
True
Explanation:
27)
False
28) The police have always been considered primarily as a crime-fighting and order-maintenance
group.
Answer:
True
Explanation:
25)
False
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Answer Key
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law enforcement, or crime control
church
slave
posse
Bow Street
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FALSE
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