Criminal Justice Organizations Administration and Management 6th Edition by Stan Stojkovic – Test Bank

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Criminal Justice Organizations Administration and Management 6th Edition by Stan Stojkovic – Test Bank

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Test Questions for Criminal Justice Organizations:

Chapter 2

1. A structured organization attains their organizational goals by ensuring that its members follow the required guidelines in order to achieve its purpose. True or False

(Answer: True)

2. What are the model(s) of an organization? (Answer: D)
3. Mechanistic
4. Organic
5. Structure
6. Both A, B
7. Both A,C
8. An organic organization is also known as a bureaucratic, formal and hierarchical system. True or False (Answer: False)
9. What makes up the organization’s mission, policies, procedures, and also forms a hierarchy that dictates the purpose of the organization? (Answer: A)
10. Framework
11. Informal
12. Social
13. Formal
14. The need for ___________ has also resulted in simplifying sentencing decisions with legislated sentencing guidelines that judges are required to follow. (Answer: Efficiency)
15. The hierarchical structure of a bureaucracy forces official communication to occur ___________? (Answer: B)
16. Horizontally
17. Vertically
18. Diagonally
19. None of the above
20. Communication within an organic organization tends to be? (Answer: A)
21. Horizontally
22. Vertically
23. Diagonally
24. None of the above
25. Within an organic organization tasks are not specialized and any member of the agency may have the expertise or knowledge to take on a variety of tasks. True or False (Answer: True)
26. An example of a mechanistic organization is? (Answer: A)
27. Department of Homeland Security
28. Research and Planning Department
29. Treatment Staff
30. None of the above
31. Task specialization is the process of dividing the work into a number of smaller tasks. True or False (Answer: True)
32. Research consists of the establishment of rules and regulations, usually written, that govern the work activities of an agency’s personnel. True or False (Answer: False)
33. ________ and ___________ are often considered or identified as policies and procedures.

(Answer: A)

1. Rules, Regulations
2. Sanctions, Procedures
3. Policies, Regulations
4. Rules, Procedures
5. Specialization suggests that formalization has a significant positive impact on correctional officers’ job satisfaction and commitment to the organization. True or False (Answer: False)
6. This dimension of an organizational structure requires that all subordinates report to a supervisor? (Answer: B)
7. Formalization
8. Span of Control
9. Bureaucratic
10. None of the above
11. Under the tall hierarchy supervisors are responsible for their subordinates and exercise strict rules and regulations in order to pursue organizational goals. True or False (Answer: True)
12. A _________ statement is portrayed by the organizations’ responsibility to clients, its ideology, values, and operating principles. (Answer: Mission)
13. All organizations have written and clear missions. True or False (Answer: False)
14. The ________ process of receiving and allocating funds in order to operate and achieve its mission. (Answer: B)
15. Tax
16. Budget
17. Equity
18. None of the above
19. What is the most common form of an agency budget preparation? (Answer: C)
20. Logical
21. Bottom up
22. Line-item
23. None of the above
24. The distribution of funds among agencies is typically allocated on a quarterly basis. True or False (Answer: True)
25. A formal structure includes goals, activities, or structures that are not officially acknowledged. True or False (Answer: False)
26. This informal communication is based on rumors among organizational members?

(Answer: A)

1. Grapevine
2. Tall
3. Flat
4. None of the above

 

23. In correctional facilities there is not a formal structure because inmates contribute to the order maintenance goal of prisons. True or False (Answer: True)
24. Based on Bolman and Deal (2003) there are four organization frames: structural frame, human resource frame, political frame and symbolic frame. True or False (Answer: True)
25. Organizational frameworks involve both formal and informal structures of organizations. True or False (Answer: True)
26. What are some of the key assumptions underlying structural frame? (Answer: D)
27. Organizations exist to achieve goals and objectives
28. Productivity is enhanced through task specialization and the division of labor
29. Managerial control of staff and Units
30. All of the above
31. None of the above

 

27. Job design restructures tasks to allow staff to fulfill organizational challenges and responsibilities. True or False (Answer: True)
28. The scarcity of resources and the competition for control exist among the different formal organizations. True or False (Answer: True)
29. What political group works to obtain legislation favorable to their membership or to impact funding or its allocation within the agency? (Answer: B)
30. Non-Profit Organizations
31. Unions
32. Law enforcement
33. None of the above

 

30. Open systems are hierarchical, formal, and mechanistic. True or False (Answer: False)

 

Test Bank:

1. Efficiency
2. Mission

Test Questions for Criminal Justice Organizations:

Chapter 4

1. The process of transmitting symbols back and forth from one source to the other is also know as a dyad form of communication. True or False (Answer: True)
2. What is the first step of the communication process? (Answer: C)
3. Decoding
4. Receiving
5. Encoding
6. Transmitting
7. How many steps are in the communication process? (Answer: C)
8. 7
9. 8
10. 5
11. 4
12. All of these are communication barriers and/or alter the meaning of the message, except?
13. Use of personalized meanings
14. Lack of language skills
15. Use of complex channels
16. Lack of motivation or interest

(Answer: B)

5. Professional jargon or legal terminology may have little, no, or a different meaning to those outside the profession or legal system is which type of communication barrier?
6. Lack of motivation or interest
7. Non-credibility of the source
8. Lack of communication skills
9. Use of personalized meanings

(Answer: D)

6. The more gates that communication must pass through, the more likely it is that the message will pass rapidly and will not be altered. True or False (Answer: False)
7. Downward communication allows executives a clear path to send information downward to their subordinates. True or False (Answer: True)
8. Upward communication among organizational members at the same level can facilitate task coordination, provide a means of sharing information, provide a formal channel of communication for problem solving, and facilitate mutual support for staff involved. True or False (Answer: False)
9. Formal communication or grapevine is the flow of information that is used to provide organizational members with sufficient information to satisfy their curiosity. True or False (Answer: False)
10. Exclusionary rules in criminal trials dictate the admission of evidence that has been obtained in ways that are considered illegal. True or False (Answer: True)
11. Within an organization what type of network is formed more for personal than for professional motives and may not have much to do with the goals of their agency?
12. Complex
13. Kinship
14. Dynamic
15. Horizontal

(Answer: B)

12. Communication theorists consider ___________ communication an extremely powerful part of the communication process for an organization and its members. (Answer: Non-verbal)
13. It is important for individuals to understand nonverbal communication for one to become an effective listener. True or False (Answer: True)
14. ____________ is the substance that we attempt to share through symbols in communication. (Answer: Information)
15. The rate and complexity of communication inputs to an individual, are known as:
16. Rate
17. Load
18. Overload
19. Non-verbal

(Answer: B)

16. Absolute information is an idea or piece of knowledge expressed in recognized symbolic terms. True or False (Answer: True)
17. Correction officers are instructed that inmates must be given due process before being punished for an infraction of a prison rules; this is an example of which form of information?
18. Instructional Information
19. Environmental Information
20. Motivational Information
21. A network is static because member may enter or leave the network system. True or False (Answer: False)
22. Organizational networks are mutually exclusive and they tend to overlap. True or False (Answer: False)
23. The number of potential official, kinship, and informal networks is virtually endless. True or False (Answer: True)
24. Communication barriers exist more in the criminal justice system than in other systems because of checks and balances. True or False (Answer: True)
25. Communication among criminal justice agencies, in short, is carried out by individuals with different views. True or False (Answer: True)
26. Perceptions tend to alter the communication process within criminal justice organizations. True or False (Answer: True)
27. ________ theory is the shared assistance of information among criminal justice agencies. (Answer: Exchange)
28. Interagency relations will decrease the communication barrier and improve the efficiency of criminal justice organizations. True or False (Answer: True)
29. ______ _______ are people who serve as members of two or more groups or are part of the social system of two or more groups. (Answer: Linking Pins)
30. In the communication process, who lacks credibility?
31. Receiver
32. Communicator
33. None of the above
34. Theory X approach, encourages teamwork rather than adversarial and competitive relationships among agency staff? True or False (Answer: False)
35. The _______ center is a mechanism for exchanging information and intelligence.
36. Union
37. Fusion
38. Cohesion
39. Technical

(Answer: B)

30. The _______ keeps the agency from being accessed by non-agency individuals.

(Answer: Firewall)

Test Bank:

 

1. Non-Verbal
2. Information
3. Linking Pins
4. Firewall
5. Exchange