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 amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?
4th Amendment
Court Room Work Group
State/Local Court System
Tribal
2. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
Life
Marbury versus Madison
1382
Makes deals and not go to trial
3. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?
State
Incapaciation
Bench Trial
Intermediate Courts
4. Jail time - restitution - contact restrictions - drug testing - searches and seizures - employment verification - and counseling can be terms of what?
Crime Control Due Process
Pretrial Hearing
Appeals
Formal Probation
5. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
Complaint
Preliminary Hearing
F.B.I
Judicial - Executive
6. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?
Preliminary Hearing
Superior Court
39
Judiciary Act
7. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Adversarial System
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Bill of Rights
8. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
6th Amendment
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
9. Other then UCRS and NIBRS - what entities compile information about crime in the country?
Dual System
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Chief
Intermediate Courts
10. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
Assistant District Attorneys
1903
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
U.S. Marshall's
11. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
Article III of the Constitution
County
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Stare Decisis
12. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?
Lexington - Concord
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Appeals
County
13. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?
Judicial/Legislative
Body - Amendments
Stare Decisis
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
14. What is discovery?
Bench Trial
Precedent
Evidence
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
15. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?
Special Police Force
8th Amendment
Discretion
Evidence
16. What 1770 shooting incident heightened tensions between Boston colonists and newly arrived British soldiers?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Boston Massacre
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Sworn - Non-sworn
17. What is meant by inferior courts?
State/Local Court System
Lower Courts
Local level
Continue to another date
18. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
1383
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Due Process Phase
19. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
1383
4th Amendment
90 Million
Conditional Sentence
20. What are the two main functions of criminal courts?
21. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Preliminary Hearing
Community Sensitive Programs
Due Process
22. How is a jury panel selected?
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Indeterminate Sentencing
Local level
Mala Prohibita
23. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?
Stars
Crime Control - Due Process
Information
Better
24. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
85%
39
Adversarial System
Yes
25. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1930?
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Punishment without trial
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
State
26. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
Adversarial System
Tribal
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Habeas Corpus
27. What current California legal code did the Law of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses contribute to?
The Penal Code
Punishment without trial
Vigilantes
Mala Prohibita
28. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?
85%
All volunteers
King Henry II
14
29. What are the five levels of force among agencies?
State Supreme Court
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
14
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
30. What two factors does a probation officer consider when writing the presentence report?
U.S. Marshall's
8th Amendment
Loosely Coupled System
Aggravating - Mitigating
31. What was the name of the article which encouraged law enforcement not just to focus on crime - but the social factors of crime?
Sheriff
The Family Model
Broken Windows
Jurisdiction
32. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Court Room Work Group
U.S. Postal Inspectors
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
33. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
Bench Trial
Assistant District Attorneys
14
Patronage
34. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?
Mala en Se
Retribution
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
35. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
85%
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Discretion
The Penal Code
36. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?
Courts
Petition
Bench Trial
State
37. After the U.S. Constitution was ratified - what type of court system did the U.S. realize it needed to have?
Potential for Incarceration
Loosely Coupled
Federal Court System
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
38. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?
Tribal
Bill of Rights
Original Jurisdiction
Future laws not passed yet
39. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Judicial - Executive
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
All volunteers
Infraction
40. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?
Judiciary Act
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Incapaciation
41. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?
Generalists
George Washington - John Adams
English Common Law
Felony
42. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
Own Recognizance
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
830.1
4th Amendment
43. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
90 Million
1977 Dixon Bill
State
44. What do the majority of cases going into the U.S. District Court involve?
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Judiciary Act
Felony
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
45. The Federal Court system was created through what?
Evidence
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Judiciary Act
State
46. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
Deterrence
Crime Control Due Process
Habeas Corpus
Intermediate Courts
47. In Orange County - what type of prosecuting attorneys handle the day to day issues in the court room?
State
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Assistant District Attorneys
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
48. What 1838 Ohio State Supreme Court Case established the concept of Parens Patriae and no need for due process in juvenile matters?
Constitutional Law
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Mary Ann Crouse
Article III of the Constitution
49. What does O.R. mean?
Own Recognizance
Worse
The Family Model
90 Million
50. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
Assistant District Attorneys
Formal Probation
All volunteers
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement