SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
DSST Criminal Justice
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
dsst
,
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 government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state
support for plea bargaining:
Prosecutor
Probation
Court Jurisdiction
2. Evidence that consists of physical material or traces of physical activity
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Arraignment
Intermediate sentencing
Real evidence
3. Parole is earned - probation is part of a sentence
3 level of security associated with prisons
Enhancement
Parolve v. probation
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
4. A writ whcih requires a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court. This ensure that a prisoner can be released form unlawful detention.
mitigating circumstances
direct evidence
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
Habeus corpus
5. Excusing a juror from a trial for a stated - specific reason - such as the juror knows the parties or witnesses in a case. Each side has an unlimited number of challenges for cause.
Challenge for Cause
Trial Jury
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
USA Patriot Act
6. 2005 - illegal to execute minors
Roper v. Simmons
In Re Gault
baston v. kentucky
The man known as the first probation officer?
7. Probation
Runs juvenile hall
7th Amendment
Real evidence
Suspended sentence
8. A public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice
'Discover'
Suspended sentence
Goals of punishment
Judge
9. (law) a way of dealing with offenders without imprisoning them
Probation
7th Amendment
Wolff v. McDaniel
Aggravated Circumstances
10. The unlawful use of force or violence by an individual or a group that is based and operatues entirely within the U.S. and its territories - acts without foreign direction and directs its activites agaits elements of the us government or population
Domestic terrorism
6th Amendment
baston v. kentucky
Presentence investigation
11. Physical material or traces of physical activity
Challenge for Cause
Parole
Real evidence
List three ways a person can be released from jail
12. A principle developed by the courts and applied to the corrections arena by pell v. procunier that attempts to weigh the rights of an individual as guaranteed by the Constituion - against the authority of states of make laws or to otherwise restrict
Arraignment
Grand Jury
direct evidence
Balancing test
13. Prohibits peremptory challenges based on gender
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
No lo contendre
Rules of evidence
Probation officer
14. A common law principle that allows the state to assume a parental role and to take custody of a child when he or she becomes delinquent - is abandoned or is need of care taht the natural parents are unable or unwilling to provide
Runs juvenile hall
Stack Vs. Boyle
Parens patriae
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
15. Prohibits peremptory challenges based on race
Prisoner rights:
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Probation officer
baston v. kentucky
16. Run by the Federal government. Charged with protecting the nation's critical infrastructure against terrorist attack.
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Homeland security
Goals of punishment
Suspended sentence
17. Prisoners challenged the constitutionality of state regulations covering censorship of prisoner mail on the grounds that they violated the prisoners free-speech rights. REstrictions on speech must be justified as the necessity for security and the ru
Procunier vs. Martinez
7th Amendment
Morissey v. Brewer
contract attorneys
18. Investigation into the history of the person convicted of a crime to see if tehere are an extenuating circumstances which would ameliorate or increase sentence
circunstancial evidence
Presentence investigation
Aggravated Circumstances
Criminal Complaint
19. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that may be considered to reduce the blameworthiness of the defendant
Probation
Against Plea bargaining:
mitigating circumstances
Santobello Vs. New York
20. Nominated by the President
How does an individual become a federal judge
6th Amendment
Homeland security
Explain the difference between probation and parole
21. In pre-trial in which each party can obtain evidence from opposing party
Real evidence
Discovery:
circunstancial evidence
victim impact statements
22. A fedral law enacted in response to terrorist attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon on September 11 -2001. The law officially titled the Uniting and Strengthening America by providing Appropriate Tools Required to intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act -
aggravating circumstances
Goals of punishment
Probation officer
USA Patriot Act
23. A legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment
Suspended sentence
Arraignment
Court Jurisdiction
restitution
24. Crime - Investigation - arrest - file criminal complaint - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - trial - sentencing - appeal
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
Real evidence
3 level of security associated with prisons
25. Amnesty - Bail - good behavior
Domestic terrorism
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Habeus corpus
Homeland security
26. The act of a person repeating of an undesirable behavior after thay have either experienced negative consequences of that behavior or have been treated or trained to extinguish that behavior.
Recidivism:
Terrorism- Causes:
Lockyer v. Andrade:
Bailiff
27. Procedural safeguards are necessary in revocation hearing involving parolees
Challenge for Cause
Morissey v. Brewer
Domestic terrorism
Probation officer
28. A prisoner has no reasoable expectations of privacy in his prison cell and no protections against what would otherwise be unreasonable searches 4th amendment
indeterminate sentencing
Roper v. Simmons
Grand Jury
Hudson v. Palmer
29. U.S Districts Courts - U.S. Court of Appeal - U.S. Supreme Court
Cruz v. beto
Prosecutor
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Aggravated Circumstances
30. Geographic area of the court
restitution
Venue
Restitution
In Re Winship
31. Trial Court - superior court - pellet superior court - supreme court
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
Pre-sentence report
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Probation officer
32. Most widely used goal is to individualize punishment - inmates eligible for parole after serving minimum
Probation officer
Intermediate sentencing
How does an individual become a federal judge
Lockyer v. Andrade:
33. Consecutive - one after the other and Concurrent is at same time
mitigating circumstances
Trial Proceedures
Prisoner rights:
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
34. Presumption of innocence- cannot be convicted unless the evidence is proved without a reasonable doubt
Stack Vs. Boyle
Rules of evidence
Preliminary Hearing
Defense Attorney
35. The in court use of victim or survivor supplied information supplied by sentencing authorities seeking to make an informed sentencing decision.
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
victim impact statements
Enhancement
Explain the difference between probation and parole
36. Full time- salaried
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
public defender
aggravating circumstances
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
37. Right to a speedy trial with unbiased jury - right to counsel
6th Amendment
Santobello Vs. New York
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
38. A model of criminal punishment in which an offender is given a fixed term of imprisonment that they may be reduced by good time or gain taim. all offendors convicted of the same crime will reciee the same punishment
Rules of evidence
determinate sentencing
'Discover'
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
39. Jury trial in civil cases
7th Amendment
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Preliminary Hearing
Challenges to the array
40. The right to challenge a potential juror without discling the reason for the challenge. Used to eliminate juries individuals who although they express no bias are thought to be capable of swaying the jury in an undesirable way
Peremptory Challenges:
public defender
How does an individual become a federal judge
direct evidence
41. Green- low Blue-guarded yellow-elevated orange- high red- severe
Terroism threat levels
Gregg V. Georgia
Intermediate sentencing
Prisoner rights:
42. The lawyer representing the defendant
Defense Attorney
Cause challenges:
Rules of evidence
aggravating circumstances
43. The authorized seizure of money - negotiable instruments - securities - or other things of value. Under federal antidrug laws - judicial representatives are authorized to seize all cash and goods.
Payne V. Tennessee
Enhancement
Lockyer v. Andrade:
Forfeiture laws
44. Less courts - less judges - prompt and final disposition of most cases - reduces time/cost in jail - reduces time spent free on bail- dangerous - serious offenders move more quickly into rehab - counseling - etc. - assures that the guilty will not be
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
support for plea bargaining:
Forfeiture laws
7th Amendment
45. Fee based on state rate
Court apointed council
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
victim impact statements
Santobello Vs. New York
46. John Augustus
contract attorneys
Enhancement
Criminal Complaint
The man known as the first probation officer?
47. Court holds that bail must be reasonable but set at level to insure defendant's appearance at trial
Goals of punishment
direct evidence
Stack Vs. Boyle
Mitigating Circumstances
48. Things that add on to sentencing
Rules of evidence
Enhancement
Bailiff
Restitution
49. 2008 - court held that the death penalty is not appropriate for a crime that does not include the taking of a life
Wolff v. McDaniel
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Terroism threat levels
Runs juvenile hall
50. Grand Jury
Aggravated Circumstances
5th Amendment
Voir Dire
victim impact statements