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 is the State Court System's court of last resort?
Formal Probation
State Supreme Court
Community Orientated Policing Era
Stars
2. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
Deterrence
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Stare Decisis
3. What are the four Cs of the criminal justice system?
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Judicial Review
Appeals
Preliminary Hearing
4. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?
17 -500
17
Assistant District Attorneys
Miranda versus Arizona
5. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?
Aggravating - Mitigating
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Yes
Appeal
6. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
Aggravating - Mitigating
Dual System
1203(b)(1) - Felony
1383
7. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?
County
1382
Habeas Corpus
90 Million
8. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?
Change
39
Judicial/Legislative
1903
9. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?
King Henry II
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Complaint
Judicial System = Institutional System
10. What is the point of a second preliminary hearing?
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Vigilantes
14
11. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
County
Chief
12. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?
Pendelton Act
Precedent
Parens Patriae
All volunteers
13. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
Aggravating - Mitigating
U.S. Constitution
U.S. Marshall's
Stars
14. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?
Presentence Court Report
State
90%
Article III of the Constitution
15. What 1865 federal law enforcement agency was initially responsible for excessive counterfeiting following the civil war?
Magna Carta
Special Police Force
Secret Service
Lower Courts
16. What concepts attempts to protect society by isolating others?
Sworn - Non-sworn
1383
Incapaciation
1903
17. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
Statue of Winchester
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Judicial/Legislative
Community Sensitive Programs
18. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?
Judicial System = Institutional System
Lexington - Concord
1 and 8
Preliminary Hearing
19. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
Original Jurisdiction
1 and 8
Limited
Judiciary Act
20. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
Habeas Corpus
U.S. Constitution
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Miranda versus Arizona
21. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Bench Trial
English Common Law
Indeterminate Sentencing
22. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?
Courts
Loosely Coupled
F.B.I
1382
23. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Courts
Loosely Coupled
Information
24. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?
Future laws not passed yet
Judicial - Executive
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
25. What concept discusses 'an eye for an eye'?
Evaluation
Retribution
F.B.I.
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
26. What Latin term means great paper?
F.B.I.
Magna Carta
F.B.I.
Stare Decisis
27. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?
Deterrence
State/Local Court System
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Due Process
28. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?
Patronage and Corruption
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Pendelton Act
Patronage
29. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?
Due Process
Court Room Work Group
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Information
30. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
Lower Courts
Change
Probation Officer
Potential for Incarceration
31. What is the main criteria which determines whether a mater goes to a federal or state court?
39
Court Room Work Group
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
None
32. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
Statue of Winchester
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Court Administrator
Nolo Contendre
33. What 1838 Ohio State Supreme Court Case established the concept of Parens Patriae and no need for due process in juvenile matters?
Information
State
State
Mary Ann Crouse
34. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
Presentence Court Report
5th Amendment
Adversarial System
King Henry II
35. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
None
5th Amendment
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Judicial - Executive
36. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1987 as a supplement to UCRS?
State
Trial
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
John Marshall
37. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
Vigilantes
50 - 25000
Deterrence
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
38. What are the two ancient codes that contributed to our current legal system?
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Stamp Act of 1765
830.1
39. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
Sir Robert Peel
Local level
Due Process Phase
Due Process
40. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
Evaluation
1977 Dixon Bill
Sworn - Non-sworn
Bench Trial
41. What is the Latin term that means evil or bad in itself?
Original Jurisdiction
90 Million
Mala en Se
Statue of Winchester
42. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
Habeas Corpus
1 and 8
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Loosely Coupled
43. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?
State
All volunteers
Ah Peen
Very inactive
44. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?
1977 Dixon Bill
Miranda versus Arizona
Possecomintatus
Statue of Winchester
45. After the U.S. Constitution was ratified - what type of court system did the U.S. realize it needed to have?
Broken Windows
Crime Control Due Process
Patronage
Federal Court System
46. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
Sir Robert Peel
State
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
National Crime Information Center
47. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
Mary Ann Crouse
Probation Officer
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Habeas Corpus
48. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?
Appeals
Discretion
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Tribal
49. 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
50. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?
Trial
14
Government Attorney
F.B.I.