Test your basic knowledge |

Criminal Justice

Subject : law

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.

1. A short prison sentence served in boot camp-type facilities
Miranda Waivers are particularly relevent to juveniles
Whent he punishment of one offender deters others
The death penalty only applies to first degree murder and only when aggravating circumstances are present
Shock Incarceration

2. Concurrent Jursidiction
Determined by judge -statutory requirements and jury recommendation
15 states allow the prosecutor to decide
Insanity - battared woman syndrome - status as a juvenile
Most are in minimum security and are less violent

3. The process in which a probation officer settles cases at the initial appearance before the onset of formal criminal proceeding.
Intake
Restorative Justice
There were too many police errors to trust the police evidence
It has been long routine in penal instutitions; there are 123 rape victims per 1000 inmates. According to inmates prison staff commit more crimes then other inmates

4. According to choice theories of crime (classical school) - humans are'
1. Large numbers of re-entering inmates; 2. Legal prohibition on kinds of employment; 3. Limits on obtaining licenses; 4. Restriction on freedom of movment
It has been long routine in penal instutitions; there are 123 rape victims per 1000 inmates. According to inmates prison staff commit more crimes then other inmates
Penitentiary House
Rational - self- intersted and hedonistic

5. Capital Punishment
18
1. guilty; 2. not guilty; 3. hung jury
A fixed term of incarceration
The death penalty only applies to first degree murder and only when aggravating circumstances are present

6. A regimented - dehumanizing institution such as a prison in which like-situated people are kept in social isolation - cut off from the world at large.
Shock Incarceration
1.4 million
Total Instutution
1. Incapactation; 2. Deterrence; 3. Moral 'an eye for an eye'; 4. Proportionality; 5. Public Opinion; 6. Low chance of error

7. A view of criminal justice that focuses on crime as an act against the community rather than the state
Restorative Justice
Unreported crimes - police corruption - police errors
The local police
The FBI

8. The sentence
Determined by judge -statutory requirements and jury recommendation
Highway Patrol
Should treat people of different classes equitably
Loyalty is a critical component of the police subculture

9. The officers of the London Metropolitan Police...
Restorative Justice
Minimum-Security Prison
Were considered highly educated in their time period
Lengthy prison term for 3rd felony offense even if it is a minor offense

10. Evidentiary Standard
Judge directs jury to acquit the defendant because the prosecution has fail to prove the elements of the crime according to legal standards
For criminal trials - the evidentairy standard is proof beyond a reasonable doubt
Is favorable because it increases efficiency
Responding to calls of service not chasing down criminals or making arrests

11. Right to public trial
Selected random from tax records - Driver's Liscence records and voter registration
45 states have provisions that allow judges to transer cases to the adult court room
Supreme court has established that criminal trials must remain public
1. Severity of offense; 2. Prior criminal record; 3. Use of violence; 4. Use of weapons; 5. Motivation (money)

12. Three Strikes Law
1. Large numbers of re-entering inmates; 2. Legal prohibition on kinds of employment; 3. Limits on obtaining licenses; 4. Restriction on freedom of movment
Whent he punishment of one offender deters others
Lengthy prison term for 3rd felony offense even if it is a minor offense
18

13. Concurrent Sentence
1. guilty; 2. not guilty; 3. hung jury
Sentence served simultaneously
Self-defense and insanity
Fine

14. Judicial Waiver
When a jury member is challenged for no reason
16
The death penalty only applies to first degree murder and only when aggravating circumstances are present
45 states have provisions that allow judges to transer cases to the adult court room

15. Who has a better record of defending clients; private or public attorneys?
Work Release
When a jury member is challenged for no reason
Private attorneys
Restorative Justice

16. Right to be competent at trail

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183

17. A correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes
Public Defender
Intermediate Sanctions
Substantive Rights
Penitentiary House

18. An example of the criminal defense of justifaction is...
1. prison farms and camps; 2. Shock Incarations; 3. Community correctional facilities; 4. Private prisons
House Arrest
Self-defense and insanity
Miranda Waivers are particularly relevent to juveniles

19. According to Beccaria - the three criteria required for deterrence to work ainclude...
Is favorable because it increases efficiency
The procedural criminal law
The U.S. Marshall
Certainty of punishment - swiftness of punishment - punishment that is proportional to the severity of the crime

20. What percentage of police departments require officers to have a college degree?
Assembly line
Accountability of private police to legal standards of policing and equity in treatment of rich and poor areas
About 20% and most police departments require at least an associates degree
House Arrest

21. According to the stop and frisk rule - established by the Terry vs Ohio case a police officer may stop and frisk a person...
Most are in minimum security and are less violent
If the officer supects that the person carrying weapons
Total Instutution
1. Concurrent Jurisdiction; 2. Statutory Jurisdiction; 3. Judicial Waiver

22. A prison system - developed in Pennsylvania during the nineteeth centry - based on total isolation and individual pentence.
Pennsylvania System
Indigent Defendant
If the punishment is 6 months in prisonment or more
Inmate must serve at least 85% of sentence imposed by court

23. Truth in Sentencing
6 person jury is required by law jury must come to unanminous verdit
Unreported crimes - police corruption - police errors
Inmate must serve at least 85% of sentence imposed by court
1.4 million

24. The decision by a prosecuttor to drop a case after a complaint has been made because of - for examples - insufficatient edvidence.
Responding to calls of service not chasing down criminals or making arrests
The death penalty only applies to first degree murder and only when aggravating circumstances are present
nolle prosequi
1. Incapactation; 2. Deterrence; 3. Moral 'an eye for an eye'; 4. Proportionality; 5. Public Opinion; 6. Low chance of error

25. About how many Americans are under some form of correctional supervision?
Inmate must serve at least 85% of sentence imposed by court
7 Million Americans
Should be whether the defendent has sufficient present ability to consult with defendents lawyers and defend one's self
At least four justices have to agree that it should be heard by the Supreme Court and a writ of certiorari must be filed with the Supreme Court

26. Is female involvement in violent crime increasing or decreasing?
Increasing
Lengthy prison term for 3rd felony offense even if it is a minor offense
Pre-Sentence Investigation
Enter a plea

27. Peremptory Challenge
$200 billion
29 states automatically exclude some offenses from juvenile court (EX. Rape/Murder)
When a jury member is challenged for no reason
Assembly line

28. The use of an alternative to trial - such as referral to treament or employment programs.
Self-defense and insanity
90%
1. Impartial Judge; 2. Competent to Stand Trial; 3. Confront Witnesses; 4. Compulsory Process; 5. Impartial Jury; 6. Counsul; 7. Speedy Trial; 8. Public Trial
Diversion

29. Broken window policing is a strategy in which police officer...
$200 billion
Pennsylvania System
Targets low level quality of life crimes to eliminate disorder in the community
Sentence served simultaneously

30. The 4th Amendment protects citizens from what?
Tend to be in opposition to mainstream cultural values
Halfway House
Illegally obtained confessions - cruel and unusual punishment and an impartial jury
Should treat people of different classes equitably

31. Which is more common - violent crimes or property crimes?
The views of powerful elites in society
Property crimes
Judge should excuse himself or herself in there is a conflict of interest
1. prison farms and camps; 2. Shock Incarations; 3. Community correctional facilities; 4. Private prisons

32. A sentence entailing the conditional release of a convicted offender into the community under the supervision of the court
Commonly classified as Persons in Need of Supervision (PINS) or Children in Need of Supervision (CHINS)
Self-incrimination
Probation
15 states allow the prosecutor to decide

33. Mens reas is important in determining if a person can be held criminally responsible and refers specifically to...
Forfeiture
Whether the person intentionally committed the act
Community Treatment
Selected random from tax records - Driver's Liscence records and voter registration

34. Legal counsel for the defendant in a criminal case - representing to final appeal.
Halfway House
Defense Attorney
1. personal deficits; 2. social deficit; 3. Economic deficits; 4. Marriage and family deficits
They frequently mistake the indentity of suspects

35. A place to detain people awaiting trial - to serve as a lockup for drunks and disorderly individuals - and to confine convicted misdemeanants serving sentences of less then ten
Furlough
1. guilty; 2. not guilty; 3. hung jury
Jail
Defines what is criminal behavior and appropriate punishments

36. Duties of probation officers
Property crimes
1. Investigate; 2. Intake; 3. Diagnosis; 4. Supervision; Risk Classification
Recoupment
Miranda Waivers are particularly relevent to juveniles

37. A prison treatment program that allows inmates to be released during the day to work in the community and return to prison at night.
Work Release
1. Large numbers of re-entering inmates; 2. Legal prohibition on kinds of employment; 3. Limits on obtaining licenses; 4. Restriction on freedom of movment
Higher
Minimum-Security Prison

38. According to Cohen's sub-culture or cultural deviance theory - gang values...
Counting the number of rapes in the U.S.
Tend to be in opposition to mainstream cultural values
1. General Deterrence; 2. Specific Deterrence; 3. Incapaition; 4. Rehab; 5. Restitution
Established customs and traditions

39. Process by which the state later recovers some or all of the cost of providing free legal counsel to an indigent defendant.
Increasing
Recoupment
Insanity - battared woman syndrome - status as a juvenile
Private attorneys

40. What do police officers spend most of their time on patrol doing?
Lengthy prison term for 3rd felony offense even if it is a minor offense
Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Commonly classified as Persons in Need of Supervision (PINS) or Children in Need of Supervision (CHINS)
Responding to calls of service not chasing down criminals or making arrests

41. The initial reaction in prison is usually...
Depression and loneliness are common and inmates must learn coping behaviors
Anger Managment
Social agent
7 Million Americans

42. Statutory Jurisdiction
Restorative Justice
29 states automatically exclude some offenses from juvenile court (EX. Rape/Murder)
Shock Probation
House Arrest

43. Right to an impartial judge
Pennsylvania System
Restorative Justice
If juror might be biased; if juror has knowledge of case; if unable to be impartial
Judge should excuse himself or herself in there is a conflict of interest

44. A sentence in which offenders serve a short prison term before they begin probation - to impress them with the pain of imprisonment.
Counting the number of rapes in the U.S.
Responding to calls of service not chasing down criminals or making arrests
Diversion
Shock Probation

45. The peak age for invovlment in violent crimes in the U.S. is...
18
Tend to be in opposition to mainstream cultural values
Supreme court has established that criminal trials must remain public
Social agent

46. A correctional policy that allow inates to leave the institution for vocational or educational training - for employment - or to maintain famly ties.
Whether the person intentionally committed the act
Inmate must serve at least 85% of sentence imposed by court
Furlough
Substantive Rights

47. Competent Standard

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183

48. Indeterminate Sentencing
Substantive Rights
Responding to calls of service not chasing down criminals or making arrests
Most widely used type of sentence - goal is to indivdualize punishment
The procedural criminal law

49. A state of federal correctional institution for incarceration of felony offenders for term of one year or more.
Selected random from tax records - Driver's Liscence records and voter registration
Sentence served simultaneously
Higher
Prison

50. Are tv camara's aloud in federal court?
Self-defense and insanity
Televised coverage is not permitted in federal courts
Lengthy prison term for 3rd felony offense even if it is a minor offense
If the officer supects that the person carrying weapons