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 was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
Bill of Rights
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
The Penal Code
The Family Model
2. What does a preliminary hearing determine?
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
King Chamberlain's Court
Petition
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
3. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
Appeals
Adversarial System
Sheriff or Shireeve
17 -500
4. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?
Mala en Se
Courts
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Local level
5. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
34
Special Police Force
Habeas Corpus
Discretion
6. Local California courts which handle misdemeanors - minor civil matters - and traffic violations are called what?
Stare Decisis
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
U.S. Federal District Courts
Serpico
7. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?
Crime Control Due Process
Federal Court System
Assistant District Attorneys
Due Process
8. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Evaluation
90%
First Continental Congress
9. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?
Hoover
English Common Law
14
Attorney General
10. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Patronage and Corruption
Mala en Se
Incapaciation
11. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?
Nolo Contendre
Sheriff or Shireeve
Punishment without trial
Evaluation
12. What is a local law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Deterrence
Chief
Marbury versus Madison
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
13. What is the name for a juvenile complaint?
Presentence Court Report
Petition
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
90%
14. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
Discretion
1383
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
39
15. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
Trial
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
County
Discretion
16. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
Preliminary Hearing
London Metropolitan Police Act
8th Amendment
Jurisdiction
17. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?
Constitutional Law
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Own Recognizance
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
18. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
U.S. Federal District Courts
Limited
85%
Probation Officer
19. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
Trial
Stare Decisis
Loosely Coupled System
Sir Robert Peel
20. What English Common Law court system could arguably be seen as the world's first dedicated juvenile court?
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
21. Is the Federal or State court system older?
Original Jurisdiction
State
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Sir Robert Peel
22. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?
Vigilantes
U.S. Federal District Courts
Court Room Work Group
34
23. In 1789 which London magistrate stressed the need for a 'centralized' law enforcement agency?
Discretion
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Felony
Patrick Colquhoun
24. What two things do military police entities possess?
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Judicial System = Institutional System
830.1
All volunteers
25. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Loosely Coupled
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
26. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
34
Lexington - Concord
Yes
Local level
27. What is another term for informal probation?
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Conditional Sentence
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Assistant District Attorneys
28. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?
Probation Officer
Petition
Body - Amendments
Deterrence
29. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
Generalists
1977 Dixon Bill
Stare Decisis
State/Local Court System
30. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?
17 -500
4th Amendment
Formal Probation
14th Amendment
31. What does a mitigating factor make the report?
Information
17 -500
Better
1977 Dixon Bill
32. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
4th Amendment
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Court Room Work Group
33. In Orange County - what type of prosecuting attorneys handle the day to day issues in the court room?
Presentence Court Report
Assistant District Attorneys
Preliminary Hearing
1203(b)(1) - Felony
34. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
Original Jurisdiction
Potential for Incarceration
Nolo Contendre
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
35. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
Preliminary Hearing
Worse
Original Jurisdiction
Ah Peen
36. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
Discretion
Mala Prohibita
Petition
Sheriff
37. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Pretrial Hearing
King Henry II
Arrangement
38. What legal model first attempted the concept of rehabilitation and resocialization?
Stare Decisis
The Family Model
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Pretrial Hearing
39. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
Petition
Bench Trial
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Stare Decisis
40. What west coast supreme court case in 1876 further established the philosophy of Parens Patriae and no due process for juveniles?
Ah Peen
Stamp Act of 1765
50 - 25000
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
41. Who said - 'The police are the public and the public are the police'?
Discretion
Judicial/Legislative
Boston Massacre
Sir Robert Peel
42. What concept attempts to alter future behaviors through threats of punishment and consequences?
First Continental Congress
Preliminary Hearing
Deterrence
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
43. What is a county law enforcement agency's head administrator?
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Sheriff
Makes deals and not go to trial
Continue to another date
44. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Community Orientated Policing Era
45. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
County
Lexington - Concord
F.B.I.
46. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
17 -500
Crime Control - Due Process
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Presentence Court Report
47. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
Miranda versus Arizona
Limited
Jurisdiction
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
48. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
English Common Law
First Continental Congress
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
U.S. Constitution
49. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1930?
Worse
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Preliminary Hearing
14
50. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?
Local level
Court Administrator
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Due Process Phase