Which of the following is NOT an intent of NCIC/CCIC:

a) provide and maintain accurate, timely and complete documented criminal justice information

b) enhance officer safety

c) help criminal justice community perform its duties

d) reduce impact to records departments by using electronic files instead of paper files

False

CBI does not dictate the discipline action, the agency does. 

Which ethical theory maximizes utility?

a) utilitarianism

b) virtue theory

c) teleology

d) deontological

utilitarianism 

tilitarianism (19th Century England) (maximizes utility) theory in normative ethics holding that the best moral action is the one that maximizes utility. Utility is defined in various ways, but is usually related to the well-being of sentient entities.

Which ethical theory focuses on charitable or benevolent acts?

a) utilitarianism

b) virtue theory

c) teleology

d) deontological

virtue theory 

Virtue Theory (Greek philosophers) (charitable or benevolent) emphasizes an individual's character as the key element of ethical thinking, rather than rules about the acts themselves (Deontology) or their consequences (Consequentialism).

Which ethical theory focuses on design and purpose?

a) utilitarianism

b) virtue theory

c) teleology

d) deontological

teleology

Teleology (Aristotle) (design and purpose) theory of morality that derives duty or moral obligation from what is good or desirable as an end to be achieved

Which ethical theory focuses on moral rules?

a) utilitarianism

b) virtue theory

c) teleology

d) deontological

deontological

Deontological Theory (Immanuel Kant) (moral rules) is the normative ethical position that judges the morality of an action based on the action's adherence to a rule or rules. It is sometimes described as "duty-" or "obligation-" or "rule-" based ethics, because rules "bind you to your duty."

Ethics (Ethos in Greek) equals ___________.

a) spirit

b) character

c) ego

d) charity

_____________ is the perceptiveness (acute judgment / discernment) to see what is right; soundness of an action or decision with regard to the application of experience and knowledge.

a) wisdom

b) training

c) sixth sense

d) virtue

____________ is the habit or disposition of acting in accordance with wisdom and (insight linked to action).

a) morality

b) credibility

c) virtue

d) common sense

True

Bias are often unconscious or implicit and are sometimes incompatible with our conscious attitudes

_____________ is the patterns of daily life learned consciously and unconsciously by a group of people: language, arts, customs, celebrations, food, religion, clothing.

a) society

b) culture

c) government

d) bias

_______________ is (not ordinary corruption) Officer believes in the rightness of what he/she is doing, engages in questionable acts believing it is for the right reason (i.e. protecting victims and community), end justifies means.

a) Noble Cause Corruption

b) Accidental Corruption

c) Cultural Corruption

d) Utilitarian Corruption

Noble Cause Corruption

Noble cause corruption in policing is defined as "corruption committed in the name of good ends, corruption that happens when police officers care too much about their work. It is corruption committed in order to get the bad guys off the streets…the corruption of police power, when officers do bad things because they believe that the outcomes will be good."

Policing based on bias is_______________.

a) unsafe, unjust, unfair

b) justified as long as actions are made ethically

c) called profiling and happens unconsciously

d) a part of the us versus them mentality

False

It moves from complaints of harassment / profiling / shootings into a decreased trust and increased officer frustration