SOCE – FLORIDA Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass

SOCE – FLORIDA Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass Indirect or circumstantial evidence - ANSWER -requires an inference or presumption to establish a fact Offense - ANSWER -a breach of law Non-criminal violation (civil infraction) - ANSWER -does not constitute a crime and is not punishable by incarceration Misdemeanor - ANSWER -any criminal offense with a maximum incarceration penalty in a county jail of up to one year Second degree misdemeanor - ANSWER -carries a maximum penalty of 60 days in a county jail, a fine of $500, or both. first degree misdemeanor - ANSWER -carries a maximum penalty of one year in a county jail, a fine of $1,000, or both. Felony - ANSWER -any criminal opffsense3 committed where the maximum penalty is death or incarceration in a state correctional facility for more than one year Third-degree felony - ANSWER -carries a maximum penalty of five year's in a state correctional facility, a fine of up to $5,000, or both Second-deggree felony - ANSWER -punishible by a maximum of 15 years in a state correctional facility, a fine of up to $10,000, or both 2 | P a g e Created By Grace Amelia 2025: All Rights Reserved. First-Degree feelony - ANSWER -carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in a state correctional facility, a fine of up to $10,000, or both. Certain ----degree felonies specifically carry a maximum panalty of life incarceration in a state correctional facility Life Felony - ANSWER -has varying penalties depending on the date and type of crime commited. Maximum penalty of life incarceration in a state correctional facility without the possibility of parole or probation, a fine of up to $15,000 or both. Capital Felony - ANSWER -Penalty is death or life incarceration in a state correctional facility without the possibility of parole. Enhanced penalty - ANSWER -a sentence that is increased from one classification of offense to a more serious classification due to a prior conviction or the serious nature of the circumstances involved Principle in the first degree - ANSWER -a person who commits any criminal offense, whether felony, or misdemeanor, aids, abets, counsels, hires or persuades an offense to be committed or attempted ex. if a babysitter provides security codes to a friend for the purpose of that friend to commit a burglary and the burglary takes place without the babysitter being there, the babysitter is a principle in the first degree Accessory after the fact - ANSWER -a person who gives the principle any aid with the intent that the principle avoids or escapes detention, arrest, trial , or punishment Criminal intent - ANSWER -the conscious decision someone makes to deliberately engage in an unlawful or negligent act, or to harm someone else 3 | P a g e Created By Grace Amelia 2025: All Rights Reserved. Probable cause - ANSWER -a fair probability or reasonable grounds to believe that someone committed a crime, based on the totality of circumstances General intent - ANSWER -requires the offenders intention to make the bodily movement, which becomes the act to commit the criminal offense Specific intent - ANSWER -the intent to commit a crime and the intent to deprive an owner of something permanently transferred intent - ANSWER -when a crime is intended to harm one person and inadvertently causes a second person to be hurt instead. Recklessness - ANSWER -imposes criminal liability on defendants when they did not intend for a behavior to cause the resulting harm Negligence - ANSWER -the failure to behave with the level of care that a reasonable prudent person would have exercised under the same circumstances Abuse of an elderly person or disabled adult - ANSWER -Occurs when the suspect knowingly or willfully subjects an elderly person or disabled adult to behavior that could reasonable be expected to result in the physical or psychological harm or death of the victim -intentionally inflicts physical or psychological injury -commits an intentional act that could reasonably be expected to result in physical or psychological injury - actively encourages another person to commit an act that resulted in or could reasonable have been expected to result in physiological or psychological injury 4 | P a g e Created By Grace Amelia 2025: All Rights Reserved. -intentionally and without lawful authority isolates or restricts access to family members for any length of time that could reasonable be expected to result in physical or psychological injury or to conceal criminal activity Aggravated Abuse of an elder - ANSWER --Commits aggravated battery upon an elderly person or disabled adult - willfully tortures, maliciously punishes, or willfully and unlawfully cages the victim -knowingly or willfully abuses the victim and causes great bodily harm, permanent disability, or permanent disfigurement. Neglect of an elderly person or disabled adult - ANSWER -Willfully fails to provide the care, supervision, and services necessary to maintain the physical or mental health of an elderly person or adult, or fails to make a reasonable effort to protect the victim from abuse, neglect or exploitation by another person Exploitation of an elderly person or disabled adult - ANSWER -Takes or attempts to take a victims property, funds or assests abuses a special relationship between them and the victim that results in an unauthorized seizure of other qualifying social, financial, or physical hardship or neglect suffered by the victim Interference with custody - ANSWER -Whoever, without lawful authority, knowingly or recklessly takes or entices, or aids, abets, hires, or otherwise procures another to take or entice, any minor or any incompetent person from the custody of the minor's or incompetent person's parent, his or her guardian, a public agency having the lawful charge of the minor or incompetent person, or any other lawful custodian commits the offense of interference with custody and commits a felony of the third degree Luring or enticing a child - ANSWER -When a legal adult intentionally lures or entices, or attempts to lure or entice, a child younger than 12 into a structure, dwelling, or conveyance for an unlawful purpose 5 | P a g e Created By Grace Amelia 2025: All Rights Reserved. False imprisonment - ANSWER -Suspect forcibly by threat or secretly confined, abducted, imprisoned, or restrained the victim against their will without lawful authority Kidnapping - ANSWER -Suspect forcibly by threat or secretly confined, abducted, imprisoned, or restrained the victim against their will without lawful authority and -Hold the victim for ransom or reward, or as a a shield or hostage -commit or help with the commision of a felony - inflict bodily harm upon or terrorize the victim or another person -interfere with the performance of any government or political function Missing child - ANSWER -A person younger than 18 whose temporary or permanent residence is in Florida, whose location is not known, and who is reported missing to a law enforcement agency Missing adult - ANSWER -A person 18 or older whose temporary or permanent residence is in Florida, whose location is not known, and who is reported missing to a law enforcement agency Endangered - ANSWER - Sexual Battery - ANSWER -is non-consensual oral, anal, or vaginal penetration by or union with, the sexual organ of another or the anal or vaginal penetration of another by any other object; however, it does not include an act done for a medical purpose Mentally Defective - ANSWER -a mental disease or disorder that renders a person temporarily or permanently incapable of judging their conduct Mentally incapacitated - ANSWER -a person temporarily incapable of judging or controlling their own conduct due to the influence of a narcotic, anesthetic, or intoxicating substance administered without their consent or due to any other act committed upon them without their consent 6 | P a g e Created By Grace Amelia 2025: All Rights Reserved. Physically helpless - ANSWER -unconscious, asleep, or for any other reason physically unable to communicate unwillingness to an act Physically incapacitated - ANSWER -bodily impaired or handicapped and substantially limited in ability to resist or flee. Sexual activity - ANSWER -oral, anal, or vaginal penetration by, or union with, the sexual organ of another or the anal or vaginal penetration of another by any other object; however, sexual activity does not include an act done for bona fide medical purposes Consent - ANSWER -actively agreeing to do something or giving permission for something to happen; it is intelligent, knowing, and voluntary and does not include submission by coercion Coercion - ANSWER -the use of exploitation, bribes, threats of force, or intimidation to gain cooperation or compliance