Test your basic knowledge |

Criminal Justice 101

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 was name of the era which was distinguished by the Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program?






2. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?






3. What law enforcement agency maintains the largest training academy in the U.S.?






4. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?






5. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?






6. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?






7. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?






8. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?






9. What is the main criteria which determines whether a mater goes to a federal or state court?






10. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?






11. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?






12. Is the Federal or State court system older?






13. What 1883 federal law stressed the need for a civil service system based upon merit?






14. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?






15. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?






16. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?






17. What do the majority of cases going into the U.S. District Court involve?






18. What is the name for a felony complaint?






19. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?






20. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?






21. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?






22. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?






23. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?






24. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?






25. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?






26. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?






27. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?






28. The Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program motivated police to try what new procedures?






29. When pleading guilty at a felony arrangement - what does the judge generally do for sentencing?






30. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?






31. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?






32. Generally speaking - what type of attorney is a prosecuting attorney?






33. The three federal courts are known as what?






34. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?






35. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?






36. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?






37. How many cases go to the local court level each year?






38. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?






39. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?






40. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?






41. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?






42. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?






43. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?






44. What 1838 Ohio State Supreme Court Case established the concept of Parens Patriae and no need for due process in juvenile matters?






45. What are the five levels of force among agencies?






46. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?






47. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?






48. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?






49. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?






50. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?