CJ MIDTERM

Which of the following is not an example of a transnational crime?

Genocide

Historical national arrangements for the administration of justice within countries:

Develops over the course of centuries in response to local needs and historical events

Why were the six “model” nations selected for highlighting in the textbook?

They reflect particular historical families of law and political frameworks

Politicized justice refers to a situation where:

The criminal justice system is perverted to achieve particular political ends

How is a transnational crime different from an international crime?

Transnational crimes always involve more than one country

The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) are compiled 

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Which of the following is not one of the crimes that the National Crime Victimization Survey collects data on?

Murder

Which problem has plagued comparative researches for many years in regards to international crime statistics?

Nonstandard definition of crime

Compared to the six model countries, the majority of the American Crime problem is one of:

Violent crime

When looking at the 10 crimes surveyed by the ICVS, in comparison to the model countries the United States has:

Highest overall crime rates

Law that is developed by modern states in their legislatures or through their regulatory process that deals largely with the relations between government and citizens is:

Public Law

Law that regulates behavior between individuals is:

Civil Law 

Judicial independence is characteristic of:

Common Law

Which legal tradition is one that combines different aspects of more than one legal tradition:

Hybrid

Socialist Law is historically grounded in:

Civil Law Tradition

The primary sources of Islamic Law is:

Shari’a Law

The basic principles of the Criminal Law in France come from:

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

Power in Germany is:

Distributed between the federal and state governments

Which of the following is not a part of China’s centrally monitored criminal justice system?

Preffectorate

Japan’s constitution is modeled after:

The American constitution

The deviance control function of the police includes all but:

suppressing dissent.

Which of the following is true of civil order control?

There is often a political component of activities being controlled.

In which model nation is both deviance control and civil order control performed by regular street police?

England

Of the six model nations, which of the following countries have a decentralized system of police administration?

England and Germany

Which of the following does not constitute community policing?

Centralized policing

Why are rules of criminal procedure necessary?

all of the above

In an adversarial system, which of the following is true?

The prosecutor is expected to prove guilt rather than potential innocence

What is the purpose of the right to remain silent?

both a and b

Which criminal procedure system focuses on an extensive pretrial investigation and interrogations designed to ensure that no innocent person is brought to trial?

The inquisitorial system

Which criminal procedure system is focused on the public's interest rather than the individual and the need to further the cause of communism?

The socialist system

Model countries that use Inquisitorial system

France, Germany, China, Saudi Arabia,Japan, ENGLAND