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Criminal Justice Test Chapters 1-3

Criminal Justice Test Chapters 1-3

Question 1 of 47

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What is the fourth amendment?

Select one of the following:

  • Search and Seizure

  • Excessive Bail

  • Due Process

  • Unlawful Confession

Explanation

Question 2 of 47

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What is the eighth amendment?

Select one of the following:

  • Search and Seizure

  • Excessive Bail

  • Due Process

  • Unfair Confessions

Explanation

Question 3 of 47

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What is the 14th amendment?

Select one of the following:

  • Excessive Bail

  • Search and seizure

  • Due process

  • Unfair confessions

Explanation

Question 4 of 47

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What is the 5th amendment?

Select one of the following:

  • Due Process

  • Search and seizure

  • Excessive bail

  • Unlawful confession

Explanation

Question 5 of 47

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What is the 6th amendment

Select one of the following:

  • Due Process

  • Excessive Bail

  • Search and seizure

  • Speedy and public trial

Explanation

Question 6 of 47

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Stare decisis means to stand by by what has been decided.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 7 of 47

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Two examples of past common law

Select one or more of the following:

  • Felonies

  • Eye for an Eye

  • Correctional rehabilitation

  • 10 commandments

Explanation

Question 8 of 47

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What is justice?

Select one of the following:

  • Violent Crimes

  • Punishment with a fair trial

  • Using laws to fairly judge and punish crimes and criminals

  • Illegal activity, relating to crime

Explanation

Question 9 of 47

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True or false: Mala in se are violent crimes

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 10 of 47

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True or false: Criminal is defined as involving illegal activity, relating to crime, relating to laws that describe scrimes rather than to laws about a person's right; morally wrong.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 11 of 47

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What is ex post facto?

Select one of the following:

  • Punishment without a fair trial

  • Law cannot be made and then applied to a previous crime

  • Criminal justice agencies should limit their involvement with the criminal defendants.

Explanation

Question 12 of 47

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Which of these is not a classification of crime?

Select one of the following:

  • Felonies

  • Misdemeanors

  • Mala in se

  • Violations (infractions)

Explanation

Question 13 of 47

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Which of these is not a perspective on justice?

Select one of the following:

  • Crime Control Perspective

  • Intervention persepctive

  • Due process perspective

  • Rehabilitation perspective

  • Equal justice perspective

  • Restorative justice perspective

Explanation

Question 14 of 47

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What is the crime control perspective?

Select one of the following:

  • Provide fair and equal treatment for the accused

  • Deter crime through the application of punishment

  • Offenders should be reintegrated back into society

  • Care for people who can not mange themselves

Explanation

Question 15 of 47

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What is rehabilitation perspective?

Select one of the following:

  • Criminal justice systems should limit their involvement with the criminal defendants.

  • Equal treatment for equal crimes

  • Deter crime through the application of punishment

  • Care for people who cannot manage themselves.

Explanation

Question 16 of 47

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What is restorative justice perspective?

Select one of the following:

  • Deter crime through the application of punishment

  • Equal treatment for equal crimes

  • Offenders should be reintegrated back into society.

  • Provide fair and equatable treatment for the accused.

Explanation

Question 17 of 47

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What is equal justice perspective?

Select one of the following:

  • Care for people who cannot manage themselves

  • Offenders should be reintegrated back into society

  • Criminal justice agencies should limit their involvement with the criminal defendants

  • Equal treatment for equal crimes

Explanation

Question 18 of 47

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What is nonintervention perspective?

Select one of the following:

  • Provide fair and equatable treatment for the accused.

  • Criminal justice agencies should limit their involvement with the criminal defendants.

  • Deter crime through the application of punishment.

  • Equal treatment for equal crimes.

Explanation

Question 19 of 47

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What is due process perspective?

Select one of the following:

  • Equal treatment for equal crimes.

  • Deter crime through the application of punishment.

  • Criminal justice agencies should should limit their involvement with the criminal defendants.

  • Provide fair and equatable treatment for the accused

Explanation

Question 20 of 47

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Which of the following things must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt in order to convict someone.

Select one or more of the following:

  • Actus Rea

  • Durham Rule

  • Mens Rea

  • M' Naghten Rule

Explanation

Question 21 of 47

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Which of these is not one of the seven things the criminal justice system can do?

Select one of the following:

  • Protect the public

  • Brings guilty to justice

  • Makes laws

  • Maintains order

Explanation

Question 22 of 47

1

Bills of attainder is crimes that have been prohibited by law

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 23 of 47

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What is mala prohibitum?

Select one of the following:

  • Unlawful acts

  • Laws that were made due to recent crime

  • Crimes that have been prohibited by law

  • The unlawful act of committing a crime

Explanation

Question 24 of 47

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Which of these is not a principle component of the criminal justice system?

Select one of the following:

  • Juvenile detention centers

  • Law enforcement

  • Courts

  • Correctional

Explanation

Question 25 of 47

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Which one of these is not one of the five pleas of insanity?

Select one of the following:

  • Drug Influence

  • Insanity Defense Reform Act

  • Substantial Capacity Test

  • Irresistible Impulse

Explanation

Question 26 of 47

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What is the Durham rule?

Select one of the following:

  • An accused person is not criminally responsible if his/her unlawful act was the product of mental disability or defect.

  • Insanity should be defined as a lack of substantial capacity ( the mental capacity needed to understand the wrong doing of an act) to control one's behavior.

  • The person committing the act did not know that their actions were illegal but, because of mental impairment, he/she could not control their behavior.

  • The person committing the act must not be able to tell the nature and quality of the act or could not tell what they were doing was wrong.

Explanation

Question 27 of 47

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What is irresistible impulse?

Select one of the following:

  • An accused person can't be judged not guilty by reason of insanity if "the defendant" was unable to appreciate the quality or wrongfulness of the act due to mental disease.

  • An accused person is not criminally responsible if his/her unlawful act was the product of mental disability or defect.

  • The person committing the act did not know that their actions were illegal but, because of mental impairment, he/she could not control their behavior.

  • The person committing the act must not be able to tell the nature and quality of the act or could not tell what they were doing was wrong.

Explanation

Question 28 of 47

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What is the M' Naghten Rule?

Select one of the following:

  • The person committing the act did not know that their actions were illegal but, because of mental impairment, he/she could not control their behavior.

  • An accused person is not criminally responsible if his/her unlawful act was the product of mental disability or defect.

  • The person committing the act must not be able to tell the nature and quality of the act or could not tell what they were doing was wrong.

  • An accused person can't be judged not guilty by reason of insanity if "the defendant" was unable to appreciate the quality or wrongfulness of the act due to mental disease.

Explanation

Question 29 of 47

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What is the insanity defense reform act?

Select one of the following:

  • Insanity should be defined as a lack of substantial capacity ( the mental capacity needed to understand the wrong doing of an act) to control one's behavior.

  • An accused person can't be judged not guilty by reason of insanity if "the defendant" was unable to appreciate the quality or wrongfulness of the act due to mental disease.

  • The person committing the act must not be able to tell the nature and quality of the act or could not tell what they were doing was wrong.

  • The person committing the act did not know that their actions were illegal but, because of mental impairment, he/she could not control their behavior.

Explanation

Question 30 of 47

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What is the substantial capacity test?

Select one of the following:

  • An accused person can't be judged not guilty by reason of insanity if "the defendant" was unable to appreciate the quality or wrongfulness of the act due to mental disease.

  • Insanity should be defined as a lack of substantial capacity (the mental capacity needed to understand the wrong doing of an act) to control one's behavior.

  • An accused person is not criminally responsible if his/her unlawful act was the product of mental disability or defect.

  • The person committing the act did not know that their actions were illegal but, because of mental impairment, he/she could not control their behavior.

Explanation

Question 31 of 47

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Which one of these is not a main view in the criminal justice system?

Select one of the following:

  • Interactionist View

  • Conflict View

  • Protection View

  • Consensus View

Explanation

Question 32 of 47

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What is consensus view?

Select one of the following:

  • Laws are designed by those in power to do what they want and think is best for society

  • Laws are designed by those in power to do what they want and think is best for society focused solely on moral crimes

  • If most people benefit from the particular law, the law should be made. Majority supports the belief

Explanation

Question 33 of 47

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What is conflict view?

Select one of the following:

  • Laws are designed by those in power to do what they want and think is best for society, based solely on moral crimes

  • If most people benefit from the particular law, the law should be made. Majority supports the belief.

  • Laws are designed by those in power to do what they want and think is best for society

Explanation

Question 34 of 47

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What is interactionist view?

Select one of the following:

  • Laws are designed by those in power to do what they want and think is best for society focused solely on moral crimes.

  • Laws are designed by those in power to do what they want and think is best for society

  • If most people benefit from the particular law, the law should be made. Majority supports the belief.

Explanation

Question 35 of 47

1

True or false society defines crime

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 36 of 47

1

Which of these is not one of the 3 main ways crime is measured?

Select one of the following:

  • Uniform Crime Report

  • Police Reports

  • National Crime Victimization survey

  • Self report surveys

Explanation

Question 37 of 47

1

True or false: Violent crimes have increased since 1990.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 38 of 47

1

What is the UCR?

Select one of the following:

  • Official crime data measurement

  • Telephone survey of a large sample of households/individuals

  • Surveys/ interviews that ask respondents to reveal their criminal behavior

Explanation

Question 39 of 47

1

What is the NCVS?

Select one of the following:

  • Telephone survey of a large sample of households/individuals

  • Surveys/ interviews that ask respondents to reveal their criminal behavior

  • Official crime data measurement

Explanation

Question 40 of 47

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What is the self report surveys?

Select one of the following:

  • Official crime data measurement

  • Surveys/ interviews that ask respondents to reveal their criminal behavior

  • Telephone survey of a large sample of households/individuals

Explanation

Question 41 of 47

1

True or False: Males are arrested more than females

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 42 of 47

1

True or false: Police are not more likely to arrest minority suspects?

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 43 of 47

1

True or false: Young people are arrested at much higher rates than older people?

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 44 of 47

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True or False: Women are more likely for violent crimes, such as robbery and physical assault.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 45 of 47

1

True or false: Females are more likely for sexual assault.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 46 of 47

1

True or false: Younger people are less vulnerable to be victims of crime.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 47 of 47

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African Americans are _______ times more likely to be murdered than African American females.

Select one of the following:

  • 1 to 2

  • 2 to 3

  • 4 to 5

  • 3 to 4

Explanation

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