Law Enforcement Management Test Preparation
Course Introduction
Law Enforcement Management explores the principles, strategies, and practical skills required for effective leadership and administration within law enforcement agencies. The course covers organizational structure, personnel management, policy development, operational planning, budgeting, and community relations, emphasizing ethical decision-making and the challenges facing modern police organizations. Students will examine theories of leadership, conflict resolution, and accountability, as well as contemporary issues such as diversity, technology integration, and crime prevention, preparing them for supervisory and managerial roles in law enforcement settings.
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Justice Administration Police Courts and Corrections Management 8th Edition by Ken J. Peak
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Chapter 1: The Study and Scope of Justice Administration
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Q1) System fragmentation is largely believed to have no effect on the amount and type of crime that exists.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Thomas Jefferson's statements in the Declaration of Independence are as true today as the day when he wrote them but are not widely accepted as common sense.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) All of the following are steps involved in a force-field analysis,except:
A) evaluating forces.
B) identifying alternative strategies for changing each force.
C) analyzing the forces.
D) identifying driving forces.
Answer: A
Q4) According the due process model,police powers should be limited to prevent ___________.
Answer: oppression
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Chapter 2: Organization and Administration Principles and Practices
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Q1) Four different types of formal organizations have been identified by asking the question: "Who is in charge?"
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) List and describe the three essential skills that leaders should possess according to Robert Katz.
Answer: technical,human,and conceptual
Q3) Features of the human relations and scientific management approaches were combined in the ________________approach.
A) directing management
B) planning management
C) procurement management
D) systems management
Answer: D
Q4) Explain Herzberg's Motivation-Hygiene Theory in which two vital factors found in all jobs were isolated.
Answer: maintenance or hygiene factors and motivational factors
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Chapter 3: Rights of Criminal Justice Employees
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Q1) The FLSA's overtime provisions apply to all the following persons employed in a police agency except:
A) a rookie patrol officer.
B) a corporal who is a K-9 officer.
C) an entry-level record clerk.
D) a communications officer with six months on the job.
E) a newly promoted sergeant.
Answer: E
Q2) To treat people differently because of their age,gender,sex,or other protected status is ____________ treatment.It is also illegal to deny equal employment opportunities to such persons; that is ____________impact.
Answer: disparate; disparate
Q3) The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)applies to all public agencies,including state,local,local schools,and private sector employers with 75 or more employees.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Police Organization and Operation
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Q1) The model of policing that involves wearing uniforms,using rank designations,adopting a hierarchical command structure,and acquiring legal authority is best referred to as the _____ _________ model.
Q2) Proponents of the quasi-military style of policing support this model with its imposition of control and commanding authority with strict discipline.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Intelligence analysts keep track of all but which of the following?
A) Where hot spots are located
B) Where criminals live
C) Who criminals associate with
D) Who criminals are
Q4) Intelligence-led policing operates under the assumption that a relatively _________ number of people are responsible for a comparatively ________ percentage of crimes.
A) large; small
B) large; large
C) small; large
D) small; small
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Chapter 5: Police Personnel Roles and Functions
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Q1) Which of the following is not one of the three basic skills that executives must develop?
A) Technical
B) Conceptual
C) Human
D) Authoritarian
Q2) The skill that is the most easily trained for as an executive involves specialized knowledge,analytical ability,and facility in the use of the tools and techniques of the specific discipline and is known as _____________ ________.
Q3) Out of the several recruiting measures described in the textbook,list and describe five of them.
Q4) Machiavelli's views of leadership nearly 500 years ago can be very instructive for today's police chief executives.
A)True
B)False
Q5) As a___________,the CEO resolves employee grievances and,through an appointed representative at the bargaining table,tries to represent the best interests of both the city and labor during collective bargaining.
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Chapter 6: Police Issues and Practices
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Q1) All of the following are relatively new policing paradigms that can also be applied to combatting terrorism,except:
A) Intelligence-led policing
B) Smart policing
C) Predictive policing
D) Conditional policing
Q2) ____ ________ ___________Act of 1878 prohibits using the military to execute the laws domestically.
Q3) Recruits must be trained in sexually integrated academy classes to ensure full integration between female and male officers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A Police Foundation study found that "most women officers have experienced both __________ _________and _____________on the job."
Q5) Police work can be easily balanced with family life.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What is meant by intelligence-led policing,predictive policing,and fusion centers?
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Chapter 7: Court Organization and Operation
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Q1) Courts are relatively autonomous single work units.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The U.S.Supreme Court,formed in 1790,is composed of nine justices: one chief justice and eight associate justices.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Courts have become particularly involved in:
A) foreign affairs.
B) administrative policy.
C) the right to privacy.
D) the right to bear arms.
Q4) Which of the following is not one of the four separate activities of time as allocated by the Supreme Court justices?
A) Reading through petitions for review of cases
B) Oral arguments
C) Time for calling constituents to obtain their opinions
D) Time to work on writing their opinions
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Chapter 8: Court Personnel Roles and Functions
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Q1) The creation of the Institute for Court Management in 1970 was a landmark in the training of court administrators.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The American Judicature Society argues for limiting the role of politics in the selection of state judges.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Most works on judicial administration point to ________________ as the founder of the study of judicial administration.
A) J. Edgar Hoover
B) Warren Burger
C) Judge Learned Hand
D) Roscoe Pound
Q4) A positive outcome of court administration has been the completely positive relations between judges and court administrators.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is meant by "good judging?"
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Chapter 9: Court Issues and Practices
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Q1) ___________ _________ jails are those where inmates' cells are arranged around a common area in a podlike fashion,with no physical barriers between the officer and the inmates.
Q2) How do supermax prisons operate differently from other prisons? What concerns have been raised concerning their alleged effects on inmates,constitutionality,and public safety?
Q3) Supermax inmates rarely leave their cells; in most,an hour a day of out-of-cell time is the norm.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A prison's correctional security department is normally the largest department,with 50 to 70 percent of all staff.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How can jails better assist with inmate reentry back into the community?
Q6) There are now about 30 supermax prisons in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q7) The first veterans' court opened in____________,_____ _____ in 2008.
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Chapter 11: Corrections Personnel Roles and Functions
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Q1) Which of the following is considered a "serious" infraction by a correctional officer (CO)or inmate?
A) Giving candy to an inmate
B) Inmates giving a CO a soda
C) A love affair between an inmate and CO
D) A CO allowing an inmate to remain in-cell
Q2) What are the means by which corrections personnel can become corrupted,and what can their administrators do to address and prevent such corruption?
Q3) ______________ is still the number one problem of jails.
Q4) Correctional leaders should support and increase training to ensure a work environment that is conductive to an ethical work culture.
A)True
B)False
Q5) "People worker" type correctional officers work only in protective custody. A)True B)False
Q6) To minimize the possibility of error,executions are carried out by highly trained
Q7) What are the types of correctional officers,per Farkas? Describe each.
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Chapter 12: Corrections Issues and Practices
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Q1) Are the provisions the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 adequate to address the issues regarding inmate health and safety? Why or why not?
Q2) One of the best-known corrections riots involved the horrific incidents at the ______________________ where 39 inmates and staff were killed.
A) HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attica_Correctional_Facility" \o "Attica Correctional Facility" Attica Correctional Facility, New York, 1971.
B) Thurston Jail, Pennsylvania, 1948.
C) Walla Walla, Washington, State Prison, 1979.
D) San Quentin Prison, California, 2002.
Q3) Which of the following is not a legitimate alternative to imprisonment?
A) Intensive supervision
B) Narcotics/drug deterrence
C) Electronic surveillance
D) Court-administered restitution
Q4) Studies show that house arrest is ineffective when used in combination with other forms of sentencing options.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Ethical Considerations
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Q1) What is the definition of ethics? Give examples of relative and absolute ethics.
Q2) The Code of Conduct for United States Judges focuses most of its attention on outside activities.
A)True
B)False
Q3) To help deal with noble cause-type behavior,administrators and middle managers must:
A) take a hard-line view that their subordinates always tell the truth and follow the law.
B) constantly surveil their officers.
C) publicly support an end-justifies-the-means philosophy.
D) try not to look for "red flag" incidents among their employees.
Q4) In what ways can judges,defense attorneys,and prosecutors engage in unethical behaviors?
Q5) The term "personal loyalty syndrome" is used to describe criminal justice practitioners who offer tremendous loyalty to their superiors and company.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The term _____________ is rooted in the ancient Greek idea of character.
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Chapter 14: Special Challenges Labor Relations, liability, and Discipline
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Q1) Anonymous complaints are the least difficult to investigate and tend to have a neutral impact on employee morale because officers may view them as a nuisance.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Three categories of torts generally cover most of the lawsuits filed against criminal justice practitioners: _____________,_____________,and _________________torts.
Q3) The best outcomes that could come from the collective bargaining battle would include all but which of the following?
A) A better balance of pension and health care benefits for public employees
B) Greater use of objective and subjective performance data and measures
C) Greater appreciation of government workers in general
D) Significant increases in government employee salaries
Q4) The purpose of collective bargaining is to:
A) determine who should receive salary/benefits increases.
B) obtain jobs for union members.
C) allocate resources equitably to all governmental units.
D) produce a bilateral written agreement to which both parties will bind themselves.
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Chapter 15: Financial Administration
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Q1) Audits determine whether or not funds were spent legally.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is not one of the four steps in a budget cycle?
A) Formulation
B) Approval
C) Appeal
D) Execution
Q3) Discuss what is involved in each of the four steps of a budgeting cycle.
Q4) Which of the following is not an area of budgeting accountability where audits are concerned?
A) Financial
B) Program
C) Management
D) Projection
Q5) What are some strategies for policy and budget reform that administrators might consider?
Q6) According to the textbook,managers must be able to avoid the major pitfalls that were discussed.What additional advice would you add to this list? Explain your answer.
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Chapter 16: Technologies and Tools: in an Era of Big Data and the Cloud
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Q1) The Law Enforcement National Data Exchange is designed to assist agencies in making data correlations but not useful in predictive policing.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Strip searches now use full-body scanning technology using x-rays to identify any metallic or organic materials.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Although the FAA currently forbids the operation of _________ in national air space,that will likely change soon.
Q4) Which of the following is not one of the possible uses of augmented reality in future policing?
A) Real-time language translation
B) Facial and voiceprint recognition data of known criminals
C) Offender tracking
D) Accessibility of scalable, three-dimensional maps
Q5) What are some of the advantages and disadvantages involving the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)as used in law enforcement?
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