NEW YORK STATE PENAL LAW LATEST EXAMS
UPDATED ALL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE
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✔✔Intermittent Sentencing - ✔✔A sentencing option depending on the severity of the
offense.
✔✔Rehabilitation - ✔✔The process of helping offenders reintegrate into society.
✔✔Detention - ✔✔The act of confining offenders as part of corrections.
✔✔Retribution - ✔✔A philosophy of corrections examining punishment as a response to
crime.
✔✔Offense - ✔✔Any conduct punishable by imprisonment or fine in New York State.
✔✔Traffic Infraction - ✔✔Conduct defined by section one hundred fifty-five of the New
York State Vehicle and Traffic Law. (VAT § 155)
✔✔Violation - ✔✔An offense, other than a "traffic infraction," punishable by no more
than fifteen (15) days of imprisonment in a city or county jail.
, ✔✔Crime - ✔✔A misdemeanor (Misd.) or felony (Fel.).
✔✔Person - ✔✔A human being, but may also be a public or private corporation, an
unincorporated association, a partnership, a government or a governmental
instrumentality.
✔✔Possess - ✔✔To have physical possession or otherwise exercise dominion or
control over tangible property.
✔✔Physical Injury (PI) - ✔✔Impairment of physical condition or substantial pain.
✔✔Serious Physical Injury (SPI) - ✔✔A physical injury which creates a substantial risk
of death, or which causes death or serious and protracted disfigurement, protracted
impairment of health or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily
organ.
✔✔Deadly Physical Force - ✔✔Physical force which, under the circumstances in which
it is used, is readily capable of causing death or other serious physical injury.
✔✔Deadly Weapon - ✔✔This class of weapon includes any loaded weapon from which
a shot, readily capable of producing death or other serious physical injury, may be
discharged.
✔✔Switchblade knife - ✔✔A type of deadly weapon.
✔✔Pilum ballistic knife - ✔✔A type of deadly weapon.
✔✔Metal knuckle knife - ✔✔A type of deadly weapon.
✔✔Dagger - ✔✔A type of deadly weapon.
✔✔Billy - ✔✔A type of deadly weapon.
✔✔Blackjack - ✔✔A type of deadly weapon.
✔✔Metal knuckles - ✔✔A type of deadly weapon.
✔✔Plastic knuckles - ✔✔A type of deadly weapon.
✔✔Dangerous Instrument - ✔✔Includes any instrument, article, or substance which,
under the circumstances in which it is used or attempted, or threatened to be used is
capable of causing death, serious injury, or serious impairment.
UPDATED ALL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE
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✔✔Intermittent Sentencing - ✔✔A sentencing option depending on the severity of the
offense.
✔✔Rehabilitation - ✔✔The process of helping offenders reintegrate into society.
✔✔Detention - ✔✔The act of confining offenders as part of corrections.
✔✔Retribution - ✔✔A philosophy of corrections examining punishment as a response to
crime.
✔✔Offense - ✔✔Any conduct punishable by imprisonment or fine in New York State.
✔✔Traffic Infraction - ✔✔Conduct defined by section one hundred fifty-five of the New
York State Vehicle and Traffic Law. (VAT § 155)
✔✔Violation - ✔✔An offense, other than a "traffic infraction," punishable by no more
than fifteen (15) days of imprisonment in a city or county jail.
, ✔✔Crime - ✔✔A misdemeanor (Misd.) or felony (Fel.).
✔✔Person - ✔✔A human being, but may also be a public or private corporation, an
unincorporated association, a partnership, a government or a governmental
instrumentality.
✔✔Possess - ✔✔To have physical possession or otherwise exercise dominion or
control over tangible property.
✔✔Physical Injury (PI) - ✔✔Impairment of physical condition or substantial pain.
✔✔Serious Physical Injury (SPI) - ✔✔A physical injury which creates a substantial risk
of death, or which causes death or serious and protracted disfigurement, protracted
impairment of health or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily
organ.
✔✔Deadly Physical Force - ✔✔Physical force which, under the circumstances in which
it is used, is readily capable of causing death or other serious physical injury.
✔✔Deadly Weapon - ✔✔This class of weapon includes any loaded weapon from which
a shot, readily capable of producing death or other serious physical injury, may be
discharged.
✔✔Switchblade knife - ✔✔A type of deadly weapon.
✔✔Pilum ballistic knife - ✔✔A type of deadly weapon.
✔✔Metal knuckle knife - ✔✔A type of deadly weapon.
✔✔Dagger - ✔✔A type of deadly weapon.
✔✔Billy - ✔✔A type of deadly weapon.
✔✔Blackjack - ✔✔A type of deadly weapon.
✔✔Metal knuckles - ✔✔A type of deadly weapon.
✔✔Plastic knuckles - ✔✔A type of deadly weapon.
✔✔Dangerous Instrument - ✔✔Includes any instrument, article, or substance which,
under the circumstances in which it is used or attempted, or threatened to be used is
capable of causing death, serious injury, or serious impairment.
