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Offenses Against Public Administration MCQ

Two recent periods of large-scale bureaucratic expansion were ________.

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Correct Answer: The 1930s and the 1960s

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Is two-witness rule rule providing that a conviction for perjury is required to be based on the testimony of two witnesses or must be based on the testimony of one witness and supporting (corroborating) evidence such as a confession or a document?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as knowingly and intentionally removing, altering, concealing, or destroying evidence to be offered in a present or future official proceeding.

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Correct Answer: Tampering with evidence

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_____ is defined as intentionally inducing another person to testify under oath knowing that the testimony constituted perjury. The crime is complete once an individual solicits another person to commit perjury.

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Correct Answer: Subornation of perjury

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_____ is offering of a bribe to influence a sporting event or accepting such bribes.

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Correct Answer: Sports bribery

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Is resisting arrest knowingly or intentionally fleeing from a law enforcement officer after the officer has by “visible or audible means . . . identified himself or herself and ordered the person to stop.”?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as occurs when, in the same “continuous” proceeding, an individual states that an earlier statement is false. The recantation must take place before the perjury “substantially affected the proceedings” and before it became manifest “that the falsification was or would be exposed.”

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Correct Answer: Recantation

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_____ is defined as knowledge of a false statement made under oath and material to the proceedings.

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Correct Answer: Perjury

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_____ is corrupt behavior by a government officer in the exercise of the duties of his or her official responsibilities that may entail malfeasance, misfeasance, or nonfeasance.

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Correct Answer: Official misconduct

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Is obstruction of justice purposely obstructing, impairing, or perverting the administration of justice by force, violence, physical interference, obstacle, breach of official duty, or any other unlawful act or attempts to undertake these acts?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as knowledge a felony was committed; failure to notify the authorities of the crime; and taking affirmative steps to conceal the crime, such as destruction of evidence.

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Correct Answer: Misprision of a felony

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_____ is defined as the power to punish “disrespectful and disorderly” behavior as well as individuals who refuse a subpoena to testify or to submit documents.

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Correct Answer: Legislative contempt

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_____ is acts that occur outside the presence of the court that impede or interfere with the judicial process.

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Correct Answer: Indirect criminal contempt

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Is inconsistent statements divergent statements made under oath within the period of the statute of limitations, in which the prosecution may establish falsity by offering both statements into evidence without specifying which of the two statements is false. The defendant may offer the defense that he or she genuinely believed at the time that each of the statements was true?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as an unlawful payment made to reward a public official for action taken or that will be taken in the future.

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Correct Answer: Gratuity

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_____ is known as established that it is illegal for an individual or company to bribe a foreign official in order to gain assistance in obtaining or retaining business.

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Correct Answer: Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)

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_____ is defined as intentionally fleeing a law enforcement officer attempting to execute a detention or an arrest.

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Correct Answer: Evading arrest

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_____ is knowingly fleeing custody following arrest or detention.

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Correct Answer: Escape

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Is direct criminal contempt an insulting remark or physical assault on the judge, repeated disregard of a judge’s direction to limit the length of an opening or closing statement or cross-examination of a witness, or disruptive behavior by a spectator committed in the immediate presence of the judge or court or sufficiently close to the court to impede or to interfere with the judicial process?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is acts intended to impede or interfere with the justice process or that demonstrate a lack of respect for the court by denigrating, demeaning, or disregarding the judge.

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Correct Answer: Criminal contempt

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Is contemnor an individual held in contempt of court?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as knowingly receiving or offering an item of value in return for a promise not to prosecute or not to aid in prosecution.

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Correct Answer: Compounding a crime

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_____ is defined as accepting “money or anything of value” from a person other than one’s employer and using one’s position to benefit the outside individual.

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Correct Answer: Commercial bribery

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_____ is disobedience to an order or direction of the judge by one of the litigants in a judicial proceeding.

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Correct Answer: Civil contempt

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Is bribery giving, offering, or promising a benefit as well as demanding, agreeing to accept, or accepting a benefit. In other words, bribery involves two separate crimes—that is, it punishes giving as well as receiving a bribe, and requires an intent to influence or to be influenced in the carrying out of a public duty. Bribery does not require a mutual agreement between the individuals?

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Correct Answer: True

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Which of the following court recognized the necessity or duress defense focus public attention on the inability of correctional officials to protect inmates from physical violence?

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Correct Answer: United States v. Bailey

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When an individual was liable but failed to report a felony or act of treason, despite the fact that the individual did not take an affirmative step to assist the offender, is known as compounding a crime.

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Correct Answer: False

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Under resisting arrest, the suspect must prevent, hinders, or delays an arrest.

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Correct Answer: False

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The common law supplemented bribery, extortion, and perjury with a fourth crime, obstruction of justice, designed to protect the integrity of the justice system.

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Correct Answer: True

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In order for an individual to be found guilty of sport bribery, they have to be sports participants.

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Correct Answer: True

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Bribery is a misdemeanor in the majority of states.

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Correct Answer: False

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It is not a requirement of the crime of bribery that the individual who is bribed is capable of accomplishing the desired result by himself or herself.

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Correct Answer: True

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The offense of soliciting a bribe does not involve which of the following?

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Correct Answer: The money or item of value was promised, offered, or given with the intent to influence an official decision or action of the individual.

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Which of the following crimes is one of the most damaging crimes against public administration and the administration of justice?

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Correct Answer: Bribery

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Crimes of official misconduct are defined as the knowingly corrupt behavior by a public official in the exercise of his or her official responsibilities.

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Correct Answer: True

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