CRIJ Final Exam 1306 Blinn College
2024/2025 Questions and Verified
Answers
Goals of the Justice System - ✔✔administer justice in a fair and
impartial manner, To protect the individual rights of persons accused of crimes,
To provide an authority for controlling crime
Orientation - ✔✔Law and order & Individual rights
Pragmatic - ✔✔Preventing crime, Diverting offenses, Deterring crime,
Controlling criminals, and Rehabilitating criminals
Abstract - ✔✔Fairness, Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Justice
stanards - ✔✔ABA and ACA have developed detail goals to improve the judicial
system
what is meant by the "adversarial process" when describing our system of
justice - ✔✔There is a Judge, Jury, and Defendant
What is venue? - ✔✔where geographic area in which a case may be heard.
Venue may be waived by the defendant.
What is jurisdiction? - ✔✔is the inherent power of a court hear an decide a case
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, What is the 4th amendment? - ✔✔No unreasonable search and seizure
Exclusionary Rule and why do we have it. - ✔✔the exclusion of illegally
obtained evidence. Deterrence effect on unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the "Fruits of the Poisonous Tree" Doctrine - ✔✔The courts will not
allow the "fruit" or evidence obtained as a result of an illegal search to be used
against the accused.
what are the "search and seizure" exceptions the 4th amendment - ✔✔Consent,
Plain view, Open-field, abandoned, and Business.
What are the basic elements of an arrest? Who can make an arrest? - ✔✔Intent,
Authority, Seizure or Detention, and Understanding.
Are there different requirements for making a felony vs. misdemeanor arrest
when the arrest is made without a warrant. - ✔✔Most states require warrants
of arrest for misdemeanors outside of their presences.
Somme states allow citizen arrests for felonies that are not witnessed
When can an officer use force against a person? - ✔✔Any peace officer who has
reasonable cause to believe that the person to be arrested has committed a
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©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025.
2024/2025 Questions and Verified
Answers
Goals of the Justice System - ✔✔administer justice in a fair and
impartial manner, To protect the individual rights of persons accused of crimes,
To provide an authority for controlling crime
Orientation - ✔✔Law and order & Individual rights
Pragmatic - ✔✔Preventing crime, Diverting offenses, Deterring crime,
Controlling criminals, and Rehabilitating criminals
Abstract - ✔✔Fairness, Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Justice
stanards - ✔✔ABA and ACA have developed detail goals to improve the judicial
system
what is meant by the "adversarial process" when describing our system of
justice - ✔✔There is a Judge, Jury, and Defendant
What is venue? - ✔✔where geographic area in which a case may be heard.
Venue may be waived by the defendant.
What is jurisdiction? - ✔✔is the inherent power of a court hear an decide a case
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©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025.
, What is the 4th amendment? - ✔✔No unreasonable search and seizure
Exclusionary Rule and why do we have it. - ✔✔the exclusion of illegally
obtained evidence. Deterrence effect on unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the "Fruits of the Poisonous Tree" Doctrine - ✔✔The courts will not
allow the "fruit" or evidence obtained as a result of an illegal search to be used
against the accused.
what are the "search and seizure" exceptions the 4th amendment - ✔✔Consent,
Plain view, Open-field, abandoned, and Business.
What are the basic elements of an arrest? Who can make an arrest? - ✔✔Intent,
Authority, Seizure or Detention, and Understanding.
Are there different requirements for making a felony vs. misdemeanor arrest
when the arrest is made without a warrant. - ✔✔Most states require warrants
of arrest for misdemeanors outside of their presences.
Somme states allow citizen arrests for felonies that are not witnessed
When can an officer use force against a person? - ✔✔Any peace officer who has
reasonable cause to believe that the person to be arrested has committed a
2|Page
©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025.
