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. According to the stop and frisk rule - established by the Terry vs Ohio case a police officer may stop and frisk a person...
If the punishment is 6 months in prisonment or more
If the officer supects that the person carrying weapons
Day Fees
1. Investigate; 2. Intake; 3. Diagnosis; 4. Supervision; Risk Classification

2. Legal counsel for the defendant in a criminal case - representing to final appeal.
Defense Attorney
Test for one's competents to stand trial
Young males - unemployed or low income - prior criminal record or history
The death penalty only applies to first degree murder and only when aggravating circumstances are present

3. An administrative act performed by a parole authority that remove a person from parole -or a judicial orded by a court removing a person from parole or probation - in response to a violation on the part of the parolee.
Police training - fingerprinting - and polygraph tests
Revocation
45 states have provisions that allow judges to transer cases to the adult court room
Collecting taxes and supervising elections

4. Concurrent Jursidiction
Fine
15 states allow the prosecutor to decide
Unreported crimes - police corruption - police errors
House Arrest

5. During the araignment phase of the court process - defendants...
An example of the criminal defense of Justification
Enter a plea
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
Public Defender

6. Judicial Waiver
When a jury member is challenged for no reason
45 states have provisions that allow judges to transer cases to the adult court room
1. Severity of offense; 2. Prior criminal record; 3. Use of violence; 4. Use of weapons; 5. Motivation (money)
Work Release

7. What is the common criteria for juveniles to be diverted to community programs?
1. First time offender; 2. Non-violent or status offender; 3. Alcahol or drug problem
18
There were too many police errors to trust the police evidence
Counting the number of rapes in the U.S.

8. A short prison sentence served in boot camp-type facilities
Shock Incarceration
1.4 million
Miranda Waivers are particularly relevent to juveniles
Diversion

9. What is one problem with eye-witnesses?
Sentence served one after another
Minimum-Security Prison
Probation Rules
They frequently mistake the indentity of suspects

10. Some of the policing reforms that August Vollmer proposed include...
Judge should excuse himself or herself in there is a conflict of interest
Police training - fingerprinting - and polygraph tests
If the officer supects that the person carrying weapons
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

11. Right to an impartial jury
1. Severity of offense; 2. Prior criminal record; 3. Use of violence; 4. Use of weapons; 5. Motivation (money)
6 person jury is required by law jury must come to unanminous verdit
The search of abandoned property - the search of an open field - the fly-over search of property
Certainty of punishment - swiftness of punishment - punishment that is proportional to the severity of the crime

12. Which is more common - violent crimes or property crimes?
Community Service Restitution
Furlough
Restitution
Property crimes

13. Arguments for the Death Penalty

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

14. The 4th Amendment protects citizens from what?
Most widely used type of sentence - goal is to indivdualize punishment
1. Probability of error; 2. Unfair use of discretion; 3. Misplaced vengeance; 4. Weak public support; 5. Little deterrent effect; 6. Race/Gender biases; 7. Brutal; 8. Expensive
Illegally obtained confessions - cruel and unusual punishment and an impartial jury
Make-believe family

15. In colonial America - the county sheriff's job included...
Total Instutution
Collecting taxes and supervising elections
15 states allow the prosecutor to decide
PRESUMPTION of DETENTION to limit the release of suspects on bail

16. Problems of Parole
Substantive Rights
Community Service Restitution
1. Jury Selection; 2. Opening Statement; 3. Prosecution Case; 4. Motion for Directed Verdict; 5. Closing Argument; 6. Direction to Jury; 7. Verdict; 8. Sentence; 9. Appeal
1. personal deficits; 2. social deficit; 3. Economic deficits; 4. Marriage and family deficits

17. In order for a case to be heard by the Supreme Court...
Guaranteed by the 6th amendment.
Substantive Rights
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
Established customs and traditions

18. The process in which a probation officer settles cases at the initial appearance before the onset of formal criminal proceeding.
1. guilty; 2. not guilty; 3. hung jury
1. Investigate; 2. Intake; 3. Diagnosis; 4. Supervision; Risk Classification
Intermediate Sanctions
Intake

19. Why are investigations of police misconduct tricky?
Loyalty is a critical component of the police subculture
Higher
The procedural criminal law
Selected random from tax records - Driver's Liscence records and voter registration

20. NCVS crime statistics are likely to be better then the UCR crimes statistics in...
Counting the number of rapes in the U.S.
Established that juveniles should be rehabilitated not punished and that children should not be treated as adults
Judge directs jury to acquit the defendant because the prosecution has fail to prove the elements of the crime according to legal standards
Illegally obtained confessions - cruel and unusual punishment and an impartial jury

21. A sentence in which offenders serve a short prison term before they begin probation - to impress them with the pain of imprisonment.
$200 billion
Unresolved personality conflicts in early childhood
Shock Probation
Boot Camp

22. Stare decisis refers to the concept that legal decisions should be based on...
About 10 felony arrests per month
Revocation
Established customs and traditions
Social agent

23. The attempt by correctional agencies to maintain convicted offenders in the community instead of a secure facilty it includes probation - parole and residential programs.
Intermediate Sanctions
Subpoena
Fine
Community Treatment

24. The sentence
Determined by judge -statutory requirements and jury recommendation
The U.S. Marshall
Property crimes
Can earn 10 to 15 days per month and sentence reduction

25. According to Packer's due process model of criminal justice - plea bargaining...
Enter a plea
Is favorable because it increases efficiency
Shock Probation
Social agent

26. Three Strikes Law
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
Jail
Guaranteed by the 6th amendment.
Lengthy prison term for 3rd felony offense even if it is a minor offense

27. In the common law - a crime that is considered mala in se is...
Self-defense and insanity
Make-believe family
A crime that is considered especially immoral
All evidence that is obtained illegally must be thrown out from the use at trial

28. Duties of probation officers
1. personal deficits; 2. social deficit; 3. Economic deficits; 4. Marriage and family deficits
Pre-Sentence Investigation
1. Investigate; 2. Intake; 3. Diagnosis; 4. Supervision; Risk Classification
Summer

29. Jury Selection

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

30. The officers of the London Metropolitan Police...
Determined by judge -statutory requirements and jury recommendation
Parole
Were considered highly educated in their time period
The place and its charecteristics

31. An example of the criminal defense of EXCUSE is...
About 10 felony arrests per month
Insanity - battared woman syndrome - status as a juvenile
18
The procedural criminal law

32. Bench Trial
Trial by a judge without jury
Intake
Highway Patrol
An example of the criminal defense of Justification

33. Establishes the practices and processes of the criminal 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
Test for one's competents to stand trial
Claiming he/she did not have effective counsul - claiming the plea was not made voluntarily and claiming that the prosecuter did not keep his/her promises made in the agreement
The procedural criminal law

34. Good time
Can earn 10 to 15 days per month and sentence reduction
Supreme court has established that criminal trials must remain public
The place and its charecteristics
Guaranteed by the 6th amendment.

35. Competent Standard

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

36. A program requiring probationers to pay in part for the costs of their treatment.
There were too many police errors to trust the police evidence
Day Fees
New York (Auburn) System
Selected random from tax records - Driver's Liscence records and voter registration

37. Right to public trial
Supreme court has established that criminal trials must remain public
Inmate must serve at least 85% of sentence imposed by court
Penitentiary House
Higher

38. What is General Deterrence?
Claiming he/she did not have effective counsul - claiming the plea was not made voluntarily and claiming that the prosecuter did not keep his/her promises made in the agreement
Established customs and traditions
Whent he punishment of one offender deters others
Televised coverage is not permitted in federal courts

39. Challenged for cause
Enter a plea
If juror might be biased; if juror has knowledge of case; if unable to be impartial
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
House Arrest

40. Goals of Punishment
1. personal deficits; 2. social deficit; 3. Economic deficits; 4. Marriage and family deficits
1. General Deterrence; 2. Specific Deterrence; 3. Incapaition; 4. Rehab; 5. Restitution
Day Fees
Loyalty is a critical component of the police subculture

41. According to Freud's psychological theory - deviant behavior is the result of...
Super Maximum-Security Prison
If the punishment is 6 months in prisonment or more
Unresolved personality conflicts in early childhood
1. First time offender; 2. Non-violent or status offender; 3. Alcahol or drug problem

42. Models of sentencing
Claiming he/she did not have effective counsul - claiming the plea was not made voluntarily and claiming that the prosecuter did not keep his/her promises made in the agreement
1. determinate; 2. mandatory; 3. interminate
Supreme court has established that criminal trials must remain public
Day Fees

43. Consecutive sentence
All evidence that is obtained illegally must be thrown out from the use at trial
Intake
Subpoena
Sentence served one after another

44. What did the BAIL REFORM ACT of 1984 establish?
Cruel and Unusual Punishment
PRESUMPTION of DETENTION to limit the release of suspects on bail
6 person jury is required by law jury must come to unanminous verdit
Committed an act in violation of the penal code

45. Are Jury trial common in the U.S.?
Boot Camp
No - jury trials are NOT very common in the U.S.
If the officer supects that the person carrying weapons
Substantive Rights

46. From 1995 to 2005 - the crime rate in the U.S...
Went down steadily
Community Treatment
The FBI
Collecting taxes and supervising elections

47. Right to be competent at trail

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

48. Is female involvement in violent crime increasing or decreasing?
Increasing
Prison
Police training - fingerprinting - and polygraph tests
Test for one's competents to stand trial

49. An argument in favor of the O.J. trial is likely to point to the fact that...
There were too many police errors to trust the police evidence
Guaranteed by the 6th amendment.
New York (Auburn) System
A fixed term of incarceration

50. Right to compulsory process
The right to compel witnesses via subpoena
Assembly line
Super Maximum-Security Prison
Test for one's competents to stand trial