
How Fair Are Our Police and Our Courts?
Quiz
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Social Studies
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10th Grade
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Practice Problem
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Hard
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Functionalists say the police’s essential role is to:
Maintain social order and give the public confidence that complaints are handled fairly
Represent minority interests against government policy
Focus only on serious violent crime
Protect big businesses from protestors
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Community policing chiefly involves officers:
Issuing instant fines for minor offences
Building relationships with local residents and gathering intelligence about problems
Using stop-and-search powers as often as possible
Staying in patrol cars to deter street crime
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Marxists argue the police concentrate their efforts on:
Cyber-fraud by multinational firms
Environmental offences committed by corporations
Working-class crimes such as vandalism and street theft
Elite tax evasion in offshore accounts
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The 1989 Hillsborough disaster is cited as evidence that the police can:
Lack resources for crowd control
Overuse community-policing tactics
Always accept blame for operational errors
Abuse power, make fatal mistakes and then scapegoat ordinary people
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Functionalists claim the principle of legal equality means courts:
Treat everyone the same in the eyes of the law, whatever their class, gender or ethnicity
Give lighter sentences to first-time offenders
Refuse to hear disputes over medical decisions
Base punishments only on public opinion polls
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
According to functionalists, courts discourage others from offending mainly by:
Naming and shaming offenders online
Imposing tough sentences that act as a deterrent
Offering offenders free legal aid
Encouraging jury members to meet victims
7.
DROPDOWN QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Marxists highlight class bias by noting that about (a) of High Court judges attended Oxbridge.
30 per cent
50 per cent
75 per cent
95 per cent
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