Criminal Justice Chap 14

Which of the following might one expect if the future of law enforcement increasingly reflects the principles and policies of the crime control model?

• a greater emphasis on probable cause in detaining suspects
• broader police discretion
• decreases in the length of time a suspect may be detained before being charged
• All of the answers are correct.

The investigative abilities of the police should be improved and made easier by the expansion of ________.

• arbitration
• cryonics
• the due process model
• community policing

In which of the following ways do advances in electronic surveillance promise greater efficiency in crime control?

• Presumably, potential offenders will refrain from crime if they know they are being watched and believe they face a greater risk of being caught.
• Police, it is assumed, will more quickly learn of dangerous situations and, equipped with crucial information, will be able to respond in the safest way possible.
• Electronic surveillance may increase perceptions of safety among law-abiding citizens, encouraging them to make greater use of public spaces where they can serve as informal guardians and potential witnesses.
• All of the answers are correct.

To the extent that the crime control model is followed in the use of electronic surveillance, whose vision of society, according to your textbook, may become a reality in the United States?

• George Orwell
• Victor Hugo
• Charles Dickens
• All of the answers are correct.

Perhaps the most thorny issue with DNA technology is

• why DNA is used when fingerprints seem adequate.
• how to ensure accuracy and certainty with DNA samples.
• how a DNA database will be collected and used.
• how to take DNA samples from state and federal inmates.

According to a 2013 New York Times/CBS News poll, ________ of Americans said that “surveillance cameras were a good idea.”

• 30 percent
• 53 percent
• 78 percent
• 90 percent

Which of the following cities has the most extensive network of surveillance cameras, known as the “Ring of Steel”?

• New York
• London
• Paris
• Moscow

Advocates of the crime control model consider ________ at any stage, other than perhaps at trial, a luxury and an unnecessary impediment to the efficient operation of the process.

• DNA technology
• victims’ rights
• legal representation
• the adversarial system

Supporters of which of the following maintains that a crafty lawyer may be able to win the freedom of a factually guilty client by means of a legal technicality?

• the due process model
• the assembly-line justice
• the liberal model
• the crime control model

Due process model advocates believe that the ________ is a critical stage in the administration of justice.

• preliminary hearing
• plea bargaining process
• investigation
• bail decision