CPSI Examination Questions and Answers Verified Solutions Latest Update

CPSI Examination Questions and
Answers
Verified Solutions Latest Update


Question:

What are the 5 categories of law?

Answer:
Statutory, Constitutional, Common, Tort, and Criminal


Question:

What is tort law?

Answer:
Civil law; harm done to someone else


Question:

What is common law?

Answer:
Unwritten law from authority


Question:

What are the 3 types of intent?

Answer:
Specific, general, and no intent.


Question:

What is specific intent?

Answer:
Objective in mind of criminal action

, Question:

What is criminal intent?

Answer:
Conscious decision to injure/deprive another


Question:

What is criminal negligence?

Answer:
Failure of act to avoid hurting another person (ie child abuse)


Question:

What are the types of police-citizen encounters?

Answer:
Consensual, "terry" stops, and arrests


Question:

Define arson.

Answer:
Unlawfully and intentionally damage or attempt to damage any real or personal
property by fire or incendiary device


Question:

What's the difference between arson related offense vs malicious burning/destruction
of property?

Answer:
Arson charge is the burning of a structure that could be occupied; If structure is
knowingly vacant, the charge will most likely be the latter


Question:

What are the elements of interpersonal and effective law enforcement communication
?

Answer:
Sender (noise) to message (decoding) to receiver