Test Bank For Police Ethics 2nd Edition by Douglas W. Perez
Chapter 3-The Nature of Police Work
Police Ethics: A Matter of Character, 2nd Edition
TRUE/FALSE
1.Everyone who experiences police work develops at least some level of frustration due to the fact that the job is replete with paradox.
ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: pg. 42
2.The paradoxes of coercive power are the only paradoxes faced by police officers.
ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: pg. 42
3.The duties that police are supposed to accomplish and the roles that they are supposed to play are multiple, conflicting, and vague.
ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: pg. 43
4.The three main functions of police (enforce the law, maintain order, provide services to the community) rarely conflict with each other.
ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: pg. 43
5.Because of how the criminal justice system operates, the police can be at odds with its due process principles.
ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: pg. 44
6.Stereotyping in and of itself is an operational principle of life.
ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: pg. 44
7.Police officers, like others in the criminal justice system, tend to “normalize crime.”
ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: pg. 44
8.By keeping some distance from the population they police, the police can appear callous and uncaring.
ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: pg. 46
9.The overwhelming majority of people hold stereotypes about the police.
ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: pg. 46
10.Muir labeled five paradoxes of coercive power.
ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: pg. 48
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1.The duties that police are supposed to accomplish and the roles they are supposed to play are
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a. |
multiple |
c. |
vague |
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b. |
conflicting |
d. |
all of the above |
ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: pg. 43
2.The three major functions of the police are to
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a. |
enforce the law |
c. |
provide services to the community |
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b. |
maintain order |
d. |
all of the above |
ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: pg. 43
3.The three major functions of the police include each of these except:
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a. |
enforce the law |
c. |
protect VIPs |
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b. |
maintain order |
d. |
provide services to the community |
ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: pg. 43
4.If police observe drug use at a huge, orderly rock concert, or deal with a large group of underage drinkers at an otherwise calm and controlled fraternity party, the
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a. |
law enforcement function is in direct conflict with the order maintenance function |
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b. |
law enforcement function is in direct conflict with the service to the community function |
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c. |
order maintenance function is in direct conflict with the service to the community function |
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d. |
none of the above |
ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: pg. 43
5.On the street, the police must focus on substantive guilt. In the courts, the focus is on
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a. |
substantive guilt |
c. |
procedural guilt |
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b. |
who has the best lawyer |
d. |
civil rights |
ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: pg. 44
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