Ethics Exam 2

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5 techniques of neutralization
1. Denial of responsibility
2. Denial of injury
3. Denial of the victim
4. Condemnation of the condemners
5. Appeal to higher loyalties
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The path of unethical behavior begins with what?
a way of thinking
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_________________ is the way of thinking where police believe that they deserve to have certain privileges because they are the only thing that stands between the perfect society and chaos
heroic exceptionality
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In our criminal justice system, we give officers a tremendous amount of discretion, which means what?
the power to make a decision between two or more choices (the ability to make decisions based on judgement)
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What is the difference between pedagogical training and andragogical training, and which one is best?
Pedagogy is tradional teacher-student based where the teacher teaches while the student listens. While andragogy is used most in adult education is more experience based and self-directed (best for police).
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Brewer v. Williams: Christian Burial Speech
violated the 6th amendment
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What's the difference between a voluntary false confession and a coerced, internalized false confession?
voluntary false confessions: absence of police pressure. Coerced-internalized false confession: person comes to believe they have committed the crime.
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True or false? Police may pose as an inmate and be planted in a cell with a suspect in order to obtain an admission or confession.
True
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True or false? the police pose as a psychiatrist, priest, or lawyer in order to obtain a confession
False
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During questioning of a suspect, What type of promise to a suspect is prohibited and what type of promise to a suspect is permitted?
Direct promises are prohibited, implying promises are permitted.
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What is the technique used by police when an officer suggests that what the suspect did was morally acceptable?
Minimization/ normalization of the crime
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What is the technique called whereby the officer exaggerates the severity of a crime in order to get the suspect to confess to a lesser crime?
Exaggerating the nature of the crime
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Can police lie to a suspect in order to get a confession by telling the suspect that his co defendant has confessed and thrown him under the bus, when in fact that's a lie?
Yes
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What type of interrogation technique is used where the interrogator pretends to be a friend of the suspect and only wants to help him?
Role-playing
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What was the famous 1966 case that held for the first time that psychological coercion of the defendant could not be used to garner a confession unless a defendant has been given certain warnings? and what are those warnings.
Miranda v Arizona. 1. Right to remain silent. 2 anything you say can and will be against you in a court of law. 3 you have the right to an attorney if you can't afford one one will be provided for you. If you decide to answer questions you have the right to stop at any time. do you understand your rights.
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What is the difference between a police interview and a police interrogation, and which one is best at getting suspects to admit to crimes?
Interview: used to gather pertinent information regarding a crime. Interrogation: a technique designed to maximize confession rates among guilty suspects (best at getting confessions).
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Law enforcement now employs what type of technique (general term) to obtain confessions instead of coercion and torture?
interrogation techiques
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What was the case name that held for the first time, that you cannot use torture to get a confession?
Brown v. Mississippi
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which type of police are most susceptible to corruption?
vice and narcotics
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The difference between beliefs, morals, laws, and customs separate large groups is called _______. Within that larger group there are smaller groups, the smaller group called ________.
culture, subculture
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______ _____ is an enduring organization of police concerning preferable modes of conduct
value system
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What is _______ ________ perspective that means police officers are certain types of people predisposed to the professions of law enforcement.
value predisposition
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What perspective means that police officers learn the values of the subculture of law enforcement.
values learned
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Police recruiters tend to hire officers like ____________ who are conformist and believe their noble cause.
themselves
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___________ __________ is a moral commitment by police officers to make the world a safer place. It is this predisposition which attracts people to police work, in the first place.
Noble cause
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Which value system (utilitarianism or deontology) is predominant in police work and explain.
deontology, Police believe they have a duty to follow the law exactly as it's stated regardless of the ethical, moral of that law and it's consequences.
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Which value system would not question the arrest of the African American student protesters at the Greensboro lunch counter, or the shooting of the students at Kent City in 1970.
deontology, under deontology we must do our duty regardless of the consequences of morally in this case that would mean police officers doing their duty as police and following the law exactly as it's written by enforcing the legality of segregation.
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The second model perspective believes that __________ creates a police officer who is a learning value trainer on the job
professionalism
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What are the four steps of a police officer's recruitment occupational career?
1. Choice: Initial choice of occupation
2. Introduction: Basic Training (war stories and symbolic assailants)
3. Encounter: Field training officer and new officer
4. Metamorphosis: You are a full officer
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______ _______ are narratives presented to an academy class that contains manifest conduct and however may contain _______ conduct that contradicts the message of the training officer
war stories, latent
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The _______ ______ is the way police share common experiences to identify potentially dangerous suspects without any knowledge of suspects (i.e., young black males)
symbolic assailant
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The process of _______ means that police values are continually transmitted and reinforced by each other
Culturalization
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Police quickly learn that _______ is essential to the survival of the subculture of police work.
use of force
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What does POC stand for?
Pissing off cop
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What is situational justification for unethical behavior?
Apologia
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5 techniques of neutralization
Denial of Responsibility
Denial of injury
Denial of victim
Condemning the condemners
Appealing to higher loyalties
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police recruiters often hire officers like ___
themselves
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