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Full Download Criminal Law 12th Edition Samaha Test Bank
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True / False
1. The criminal law is the only form of social control in our society.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: Crimes and Noncriminal Legal Wrongs
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CRLW.SAMA.17.01.02 - To understand the differences between criminal and noncriminal
sanctions, and to know the purposes of each.
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Remember
5. Criminal law is the only way to hold a person responsible for deviating from social norms.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: Crimes and Noncriminal Legal Wrongs
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CRLW.SAMA.17.01.02 - To understand the differences between criminal and noncriminal
sanctions, and to know the purposes of each.
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Remember
7. Classical deterrence theory states that rational human beings won’t commit crimes if they know that the pain of
punishment outweighs the pleasure gained from committing crimes.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: Criminal Punishment in U.S. Society
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CRLW.SAMA.17.01.06 - To know and understand that the main theories of criminal
punishment center on either retribution or prevention and to appreciate the large, complex
body of empirical research supporting each.
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Remember
8. The principle of utility permits only the minimum amount of pain necessary in order to prevent crime.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: Criminal Punishment in U.S. Society
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CRLW.SAMA.17.01.06 - To know and understand that the main theories of criminal
punishment center on either retribution or prevention and to appreciate the large, complex
body of empirical research supporting each.
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Remember
9. Crimes and torts are similar in that both are sets of rules telling us what we can’t do.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: Crimes and Noncriminal Legal Wrongs
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CRLW.SAMA.17.01.02 - To understand the differences between criminal and noncriminal
sanctions, and to know the purposes of each.
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Remember
12. City, town, and village governments do not enjoy broad powers to create criminal laws.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: Sources of Criminal Law
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CRLW.SAMA.17.01.04 - To identify, describe, and understand the main sources of criminal
law.
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Remember
DEMOCRATIC. REPUBLICAN.
Honest reform in the Civil Service The men who abandoned the
has been inaugurated and Republican party in 1884 and continue
maintained by President Cleveland, to adhere to the Democratic party have
and he has brought the public service deserted not only the cause of honest
to the highest standard of efficiency, government, of sound finance, of
not only by rule and precept, but by freedom and purity of the ballot, but
the example of his own untiring and especially have deserted the cause of
unselfish administration of public reform in the civil service. We will not
affairs. fail to keep our pledges because they
have broken theirs or because their
candidate has broken his. We therefore
repeat our declaration of 1884, to wit:
“The reform of the Civil Service,
auspiciously begun under the
Republican administration should be
completed by the further extension of
the reform system already established
by law to all the grades of the service to
which it is applicable. The spirit and
purpose of the reform should be
observed in all executive appointments,
and all laws at variance with the object
of existing reform legislation should be
repealed, to the end that the dangers to
free institutions which lurk in the
power of official patronage may be
wisely and effectively avoided.”
Pensions, Etc., 1888.
DEMOCRATIC. REPUBLICAN.
While carefully guarding the interest The gratitude of the nation to the
to the principles of justice and equity, defenders of the Union cannot be
it has paid out more for pensions and measured by laws. The legislation of
bounties to the soldiers and sailors of Congress should conform to the pledge
the Republic than was ever paid out made by a loyal people, and be so
during an equal period. enlarged and extended as to provide
against the possibility that any man
who honorably wore the Federal
uniform shall become an inmate of an
almshouse, or dependent upon private
charity. In the presence of an
overflowing treasury it would be a
public scandal to do less for those
whose valorous service preserved the
Government. We denounce the hostile
spirit shown by President Cleveland in
his numerous vetoes of measures for
pension relief, and the action of the
Democratic House of Representatives
in refusing even a consideration of
general pension legislation.
DEMOCRATIC. REPUBLICAN.