What is the primary mission of public sector policing?

a. Protecting communities against natural and man-made disasters
b. Homeland security activities based on intelligence and information gathering
c. The protection of company assets at the organizational levels
d. Crime fighting activities


d. Crime fighting activities

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. According to the text, crimes are organized into six categories: violent offenses, property offenses, status offenses, victimless crimes, white-collar offenses, and crimes against the government. 2. When people tend to talk about crime, it is violent offenses that are typically the first that come to mind. 3. While the laws vary from state to state, murder can generally be classified into three subcategories. 4. Not all sexually based offenses are considered violent crimes. 5. Statutory rape is considered a strict liability crime.

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Which of the following was NOT identified by the IACP as a factor that can negatively influence police ethics?

a. changing moral standards of contemporary society b. the high degree of frustration experience by officers c. agencies that fail to draw legal, ethical, and moral lines d. decreasing the number of individuals who reject responsibility

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The two prongs of the M'Naghten rule are

a. cognitive incapacity and moral incapacity b. cognitive incapacity and volitional incapacity c. volitional incapacity and moral incapacity d. volitional incapacity and the product-of-mental illness

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If it can be proven that Mark landed the couch on the victim because of his race, then a _____ charge may also be added against Mark

a. mayhem b. hate crime c. malicious disfigurement d. domestic violence

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