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. What are the Defendants Legal Rights at Trial?






2. Statutory Jurisdiction






3. In the common law - a crime that is considered mala in se is...






4. A group of citizens chosen to hear charges against persons accused of crime and to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to bring the person to trial.






5. Alternative Correctional Institution






6. The PRIMARY work of state law enforcement agencies involve...






7. A condition of probation in which the offender repays society or the victim of crime for the trouble the offender caused.






8. Right to speedy trial






9. Good time






10. What is the criteria to determine whether someone is entitled to jury trial?






11. Stare decisis refers to the concept that legal decisions should be based on...






12. A prison system - developed in New York during the nineteenth centry - based on congregate work during the day and seperaton at night.






13. The least secure institution that houses white-colar and nonviolent offenders - maintains few security measures - and has liberal furlough and visitation policies.






14. The process in which a probation officer settles cases at the initial appearance before the onset of formal criminal proceeding.






15. Determinate Sentencing






16. Peremptory Challenge






17. A defendent who lacks the funds to hire a private attorney and is therefore entitled to free counsel.






18. Bench Trial






19. Models of sentencing






20. About how many Americans are under some form of correctional supervision?






21. According to Packer's due process model of criminal justice - plea bargaining...






22. What percentage of police departments require officers to have a college degree?






23. The majority of criminal cases in the U.S are investigated by...






24. The sizure of personal property by the state as a civil or criminal penalty.






25. A court order requiring a witness to appear in court at a specified time and place.






26. Right to counsel






27. Are Jury trial common in the U.S.?






28. What are characteristics of inmates






29. Process by which the state later recovers some or all of the cost of providing free legal counsel to an indigent defendant.






30. Sir Robert Peel believed that police officers should...






31. Challenged for cause






32. Establishes the practices and processes of the criminal law






33. During the araignment phase of the court process - defendants...






34. A state of federal correctional institution for incarceration of felony offenders for term of one year or more.






35. Levying a money payment on offenders to compensate society for their misdeeds






36. A prison system - developed in Pennsylvania during the nineteeth centry - based on total isolation and individual pentence.






37. What is one problem with eye-witnesses?






38. Truth in Sentencing






39. Are arrest rates of drug-related crime higher or lower then they were in the 1970's?






40. In order for a case to be heard by the Supreme Court...






41. Some of the policing reforms that August Vollmer proposed include...






42. According to the stop and frisk rule - established by the Terry vs Ohio case a police officer may stop and frisk a person...






43. Goals of Punishment






44. The attempt by correctional agencies to maintain convicted offenders in the community instead of a secure facilty it includes probation - parole and residential programs.






45. Conditions or restriction mandated by the court that must be obeyed by a probationer






46. According to social reaction/labeling theory - some young people become criminals because...






47. Physical punishment or punishment that is far in excess of that given to people under similar circumstances and is therefore banned by the eighth amendment. The death penalty has so far not been considered cruel and unusual if it is administered in f






48. The peak age for invovlment in violent crimes in the U.S. is...






49. Indeterminate Sentencing






50. The newest form of a maximum-security prison that uses high-level securtity mesasure to incapacitate the nation's most dangerous criminals. Most inmates are in lockdown 23 hours per day.