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 important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
Bench Trial
State
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Probation Officer
2. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
King Chamberlain's Court
Tribal
National Crime Information Center
Right away
3. The Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program motivated police to try what new procedures?
Community Sensitive Programs
Crime Control - Due Process
Limited
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
4. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?
Sheriff or Shireeve
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Judiciary Act
Intermediate Courts
5. What concepts attempts to protect society by isolating others?
Patronage
Incapaciation
Mala en Se
Limited
6. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
Chief
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Potential for Incarceration
Retribution
7. What is the point of a second preliminary hearing?
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
King Henry II
8. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Sir Robert Peel
830.1
8th Amendment
9. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?
Complaint
Courts
14th Amendment
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
10. What is the main criteria which determines whether a mater goes to a federal or state court?
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
County
U.S. Constitution
Broken Windows
11. What are the two types of defense attorneys?
4th Amendment
Adversarial System
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Lexington - Concord
12. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?
Crime Control - Due Process
Discretion
Better
Ah Peen
13. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
Better
1903
Misdemeanor
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
14. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
Trial
14
85%
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
15. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?
Habeas Corpus
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Chief
Crime Control - Due Process
16. What Latin term means great paper?
County
Magna Carta
Infraction
King Chamberlain's Court
17. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
State
Chief
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Pretrial Hearing
18. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?
County
John Marshall
Aggravating - Mitigating
Dual System
19. What 1838 Ohio State Supreme Court Case established the concept of Parens Patriae and no need for due process in juvenile matters?
Mary Ann Crouse
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Due Process Phase
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
20. What current California legal code did the Law of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses contribute to?
The Penal Code
90 Million
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Indeterminate Sentencing
21. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
The Family Model
F.B.I.
U.S. Constitution
George Washington - John Adams
22. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?
Stars
17
Original Jurisdiction
Pretrial Hearing
23. Under English Common Law what was the general cut off age in distinguishing between those who could charged with felonies?
14
Adversarial System
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Original Jurisdiction
24. What is the State Court System's court of last resort?
State Supreme Court
Trial
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Precedent
25. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
Discretion
Crime Control Due Process
Better
Preliminary Hearing
26. What federal law enforcement agency delegated peace officer powers to citizens during the era of the wild west?
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
27. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?
Loosely Coupled
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Serpico
Federal Court System
28. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?
Attorney General
U.S. Federal District Courts
State
Yes
29. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
Future laws not passed yet
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
1382
Right away
30. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?
Patronage and Corruption
Loosely Coupled System
Preliminary Hearing
Adversarial System
31. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
State/Local Court System
Serpico
Attorney General
32. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?
Judicial - Executive
Preliminary Hearing
Makes deals and not go to trial
Precedent
33. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
U.S. Court of Appeals
John Marshall
Court Administrator
830.1
34. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?
39
14th Amendment
Nolo Contendre
Possecomintatus
35. Who is referred to as the father of probation?
U.S. Constitution
Right away
John Augustus
Life
36. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
34
1382
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
F.B.I
37. Generally speaking - what type of attorney is a prosecuting attorney?
Aggravating - Mitigating
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Government Attorney
Worse
38. During the Revolutionary War what major document helped to guide the colonies in fighting their war against Britain?
F.B.I
Community Sensitive Programs
Articles of Confederation
34
39. What are the two main functions of criminal courts?
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
40. What concept discusses 'an eye for an eye'?
Retribution
Court Administrator
Sheriff or Shireeve
Local level
41. What 1883 federal law stressed the need for a civil service system based upon merit?
Superior Court
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Boston Massacre
Pendelton Act
42. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
Stare Decisis
Preliminary Hearing
Own Recognizance
Continue to another date
43. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?
14
State/Local Court System
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
44. Who is in charge of staffing - calender - budget - and other material needs of the court room?
Constitutional Law
Court Administrator
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Trial
45. In which two locations did the actual shooting war begin between British soldiers and Colonial militia men?
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Lexington - Concord
Very inactive
Vigilantes
46. Negative political influence and corruption impacting 19th century U.S. police agencies was called what?
Local level
Constitutional Law
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Patronage
47. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
Tribal
U.S. Constitution
First Continental Congress
Retribution
48. When pleading guilty at a felony arrangement - what does the judge generally do for sentencing?
8th Amendment
Life
Continue to another date
34
49. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?
English Common Law
Constitutional Law
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Trials
50. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
17 -500
Habeas Corpus
830.1
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason