SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Criminal Justice 101
Start Test
Study First
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 does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Adversarial System
Tribal
Discretion
2. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
Future laws not passed yet
Very inactive
Indeterminate Sentencing
Loosely Coupled
3. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?
Preliminary Hearing
Discretion
Crime Control Due Process
Stamp Act of 1765
4. Who runs the N.C.I.C.?
The Family Model
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Crime Control Due Process
F.B.I
5. What 1770 shooting incident heightened tensions between Boston colonists and newly arrived British soldiers?
Boston Massacre
Original Jurisdiction
Habeas Corpus
Due Process Phase
6. What English Common Law court system could arguably be seen as the world's first dedicated juvenile court?
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
7. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
John Augustus
U.S. Marshall's
4th Amendment
Serpico
8. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
County
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Local level
Trial
9. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
Judicial/Legislative
Statue of Winchester
Sworn - Non-sworn
39
10. What Latin term means great paper?
U.S. Court of Appeals
All volunteers
Magna Carta
Petition
11. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
Future laws not passed yet
English Common Law
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
State/Local Court System
12. What is the name for a juvenile complaint?
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Petition
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Precedent
13. What major 1829 English law created a centralized urban police force in London?
London Metropolitan Police Act
Original Jurisdiction
U.S. Constitution
Retribution
14. The average local law enforcement agency will often employ how many officers and serve what size population?
50 - 25000
Special Police Force
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Incorrigibles
15. Is the Federal or State court system older?
Local level
State
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Loosely Coupled System
16. What are the four Cs of the criminal justice system?
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Chief
Marbury versus Madison
Presentence Court Report
17. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
George Washington - John Adams
U.S. Constitution
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
18. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
Makes deals and not go to trial
Discretion
8th Amendment
Deterrence
19. The three federal courts are known as what?
Discretion
Article III of the Constitution
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Aggravating - Mitigating
20. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
Federal Court System
John Augustus
Nolo Contendre
830.1
21. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?
Articles of Confederation
Better
County
The Family Model
22. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Body - Amendments
Possecomintatus
Crime Control Due Process
23. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
Lexington - Concord
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Government Attorney
34
24. What are the oldest law enforcement agencies in the country?
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
25. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?
Presentence Court Report
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
6th Amendment
Adversarial System
26. What does a mitigating factor make the report?
830.1
Tribal
Better
Own Recognizance
27. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
Magna Carta
Probation Officer
Continue to another date
U.S. Court of Appeals
28. Under English Common Law what was the general cut off age in distinguishing between those who could charged with felonies?
14
Tribal
Articles of Confederation
State/Local Court System
29. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?
Evaluation
Miranda versus Arizona
1383
Future laws not passed yet
30. In what year and state was the country's first dedicated juvenile justice system and court legally established?
Judicial - Executive
1899 Illinois
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
31. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?
39
Punishment without trial
Information
Makes deals and not go to trial
32. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
Infraction
1383
Generalists
50 - 25000
33. What legal model first attempted the concept of rehabilitation and resocialization?
Sir Robert Peel
The Family Model
Discretion
Infraction
34. What Penal Code section states that the court may refer to probation for a report?
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Special Police Force
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Information
35. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
U.S. Constitution
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
36. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
John Augustus
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Possecomintatus
State
37. What is the name for a felony complaint?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Trials
Information
Courts
38. What is the State Court System's court of last resort?
8th Amendment
State Supreme Court
Precedent
Hoover
39. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?
Presentence Court Report
Stars
Federal Court System
Precedent
40. How is a jury panel selected?
State
14th Amendment
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Sheriff
41. Which 1760s British tax law placed tax quotes on all paper based products imported into the colonies?
Complaint
F.B.I
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Stamp Act of 1765
42. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
State Supreme Court
Stars
Limited
Deterrence
43. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?
Original Jurisdiction
Change
Crime Control - Due Process
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
44. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?
State
U.S. Court of Appeals
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Intermediate Courts
45. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
Intermediate Courts
Broken Windows
Vigilantes
Petition
46. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?
Possecomintatus
Deterrence
State
Tribal
47. What do the majority of cases going into the U.S. District Court involve?
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
1 and 8
Original Jurisdiction
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
48. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
Mala Prohibita
Precedent
Article III of the Constitution
London Metropolitan Police Act
49. What is the point of a second preliminary hearing?
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Punishment without trial
50. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?
U.S. Marshall's
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Generalists
Appeal