Exam
Name___________________________________
TRUE/FALSE. Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
1) Summary offenses usually have punishments greater than one year in jail. 1)
2) Entry into the criminal justice system most often begins with booking. 2)
3) A felony is punishable by one or more years in a state or federal prison. 3)
4) Fines may accompany any crime according to any criminal statute. 4)
5) Parole is a part of the corrections process. 5)
6) Burglary is considered a violent crime. 6)
7) The National Crime Victimization Survey is an annual report of official crime distributed by the 7)
FBI.
8) A high incidence of offender rehabilitation is found in most jurisdictions. 8)
9) Arraignments involve setting a trial date, advising the defendant of criminal charges pending 9)
against him or her, and entering a plea of either guilty or not guilty.
10) Under the Eighth Amendment, bail is usually denied defendants charged with felonies. 10)
11) Those accused of crimes are entitled to a preliminary hearing where probable cause is 11)
determined.
12) Compared with the Uniform Crime Reports, the National Incident-Based Reporting System is a 12)
more accurate measure of crime in the United States.
13) Once a plea bargain agreement has been accepted and the judgment of the court imposed, 13)
defendants may analyze their incarceration chances and withdraw their guilty pleas.
14) Plea bargaining is approved in all states. 14)
15) Charge reduction bargaining involves an offer from a judge to a defendant to plead guilty in 15)
exchange for a specific sentence.
16) Overcharging occurs when prosecutors charge defendants with more crimes than they have 16)
actually committed.
17) Sentence recommendation bargaining is proposed by the judge. 17)
18) An incident is a single criminal act involving a single victim. 18)
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,19) A victimization involves multiple crime victims. 19)
20) Self-report information is most likely contained in the Uniform Crime Reports. 20)
21) Recidivists are those who commit new crimes after having been convicted of prior offenses. 21)
22) Drug and narcotics addictions have little to do with recidivism rates. 22)
23) A misdemeanant will usually be incarcerated in a federal or state penitentiary. 23)
24) A career criminal is someone who has been convicted two or more times for various crimes. 24)
25) Index offenses are serious types of crimes which the FBI uses to measure crime trends. 25)
26) Initial appearances are held to determine one's guilt or innocence in advance of a criminal trial. 26)
27) Bail is usually available to anyone who can afford it, regardless of the crime they have 27)
committed.
28) One criticism of the Uniform Crime Reports is that it only reports crime from large cities rather 28)
than from smaller rural communities.
29) Pretrial services include furnishing indigent defendants with a federal loan to provide for their 29)
bail before trial.
30) The standard of proof in a criminal proceeding is the preponderance of evidence. 30)
31) True bills are declared by judges who find insufficient evidence to justify a prosecution against 31)
an accused defendant.
32) When a criminal suspect is taken into custody, this is the equivalent of a conviction. 32)
33) ROR means that someone can be released from custody temporarily without having to post bail. 33)
34) Prosecutors at both the state and federal levels always prosecute cases that are presented to them 34)
from law enforcement officers and others.
35) Prosecutors use an indictment or a presentment to file charges directly (on their own) against 35)
criminal suspects.
36) Over 90 percent of all guilty pleas are the result of plea bargaining. 36)
37) Alternative sentencing may involve community service or restitution to victims. 37)
38) A back-end sentence is probation. 38)
39) Corrections is largely to blame for the low incidence of offender rehabilitation. 39)
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,40) Whenever a probationer has his/her program revoked, he/she will be returned to prison. 40)
41) The designation, PO, refers only to probation officers. 41)
42) Some amount of recidivism exists in all programs designed to assist offenders. 42)
43) All probationers and parolees are a part of corrections. 43)
44) Misdemeanors are usually punishable by terms of one year or longer in prison. 44)
45) An example of a violent crime is arson. 45)
46) Crimes against the person are now commonly referred to as violent crimes. 46)
47) Hate crimes are usually associated with burglary and larceny against women. 47)
48) The FBI compiles the National Crime Victimization Survey. 48)
49) Self-report information is quite similar to crime reported by the Uniform Crime Reports. 49)
50) An incident is one specific criminal act involving one or more victims. 50)
51) Gradually the NIBRS is replacing the Uniform Crime Reports. 51)
52) First-offenders typically make their livelihood from crime. 52)
53) An habitual offender is very similar to a chronic offender. 53)
54) Career criminals are typically known as situational offenders. 54)
55) Booking is usually done following an arraignment. 55)
56) The Manhattan Bail Project had little impact on bail reform. 56)
57) Pretrial services usually involve determining a defendant's bail eligibility. 57)
58) Prosecutors tend to prosecute every criminal case. 58)
59) Grand juries issue presentments. 59)
60) Suspended impositions of sentences have nothing to do with judicial discretion. 60)
61) Suspended executions of sentences may involve some presentence orders by judges, such as 61)
restitution or community service.
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, 62) Creative sentencing may involve convicted offenders setting up Little League programs in 62)
communities in lieu of incarceration.
63) Parole is early release from prison by the original sentencing judge. 63)
MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
64) Screening and prioritizing cases for prosecution is a function of: 64)
A) the courts. B) law enforcement.
C) corrections. D) None of the above
65) Felonies are: 65)
A) major offenses.
B) punishable by confinement in a federal prison for six months or less.
C) punishable by incarcerative terms in state prison of less than one year.
D) All of the above
66) Compared with the Uniform Crime Reports, the National Crime Victimization Survey: 66)
A) has nothing to do with reporting crime.
B) reports considerably more crime in the U.S.
C) reports about the same amount of crime in the U.S.
D) underreports the actual amount of crime in the U.S.
67) Victimization data is most closely associated with the: 67)
A) UCR. B) NCVS.
C) Crime Index. D) None of the above
68) A specific criminal act involving a single victim is called a(an): 68)
A) victim. B) victimization.
C) incident. D) None of the above
69) Classifying offenders is important in determining their: 69)
A) needs. B) risk.
C) level of custody. D) All of the above
70) Making their living from crime are: 70)
A) career criminals. B) first offenders.
C) sex offenders. D) recidivists.
71) A creative sentence would be: 71)
A) a mandatory two-year period of incarceration in a prison or jail.
B) solitary confinement.
C) imposing life without parole.
D) obligating the convicted offender to make restitution to one or more victims.
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Name___________________________________
TRUE/FALSE. Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
1) Summary offenses usually have punishments greater than one year in jail. 1)
2) Entry into the criminal justice system most often begins with booking. 2)
3) A felony is punishable by one or more years in a state or federal prison. 3)
4) Fines may accompany any crime according to any criminal statute. 4)
5) Parole is a part of the corrections process. 5)
6) Burglary is considered a violent crime. 6)
7) The National Crime Victimization Survey is an annual report of official crime distributed by the 7)
FBI.
8) A high incidence of offender rehabilitation is found in most jurisdictions. 8)
9) Arraignments involve setting a trial date, advising the defendant of criminal charges pending 9)
against him or her, and entering a plea of either guilty or not guilty.
10) Under the Eighth Amendment, bail is usually denied defendants charged with felonies. 10)
11) Those accused of crimes are entitled to a preliminary hearing where probable cause is 11)
determined.
12) Compared with the Uniform Crime Reports, the National Incident-Based Reporting System is a 12)
more accurate measure of crime in the United States.
13) Once a plea bargain agreement has been accepted and the judgment of the court imposed, 13)
defendants may analyze their incarceration chances and withdraw their guilty pleas.
14) Plea bargaining is approved in all states. 14)
15) Charge reduction bargaining involves an offer from a judge to a defendant to plead guilty in 15)
exchange for a specific sentence.
16) Overcharging occurs when prosecutors charge defendants with more crimes than they have 16)
actually committed.
17) Sentence recommendation bargaining is proposed by the judge. 17)
18) An incident is a single criminal act involving a single victim. 18)
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,19) A victimization involves multiple crime victims. 19)
20) Self-report information is most likely contained in the Uniform Crime Reports. 20)
21) Recidivists are those who commit new crimes after having been convicted of prior offenses. 21)
22) Drug and narcotics addictions have little to do with recidivism rates. 22)
23) A misdemeanant will usually be incarcerated in a federal or state penitentiary. 23)
24) A career criminal is someone who has been convicted two or more times for various crimes. 24)
25) Index offenses are serious types of crimes which the FBI uses to measure crime trends. 25)
26) Initial appearances are held to determine one's guilt or innocence in advance of a criminal trial. 26)
27) Bail is usually available to anyone who can afford it, regardless of the crime they have 27)
committed.
28) One criticism of the Uniform Crime Reports is that it only reports crime from large cities rather 28)
than from smaller rural communities.
29) Pretrial services include furnishing indigent defendants with a federal loan to provide for their 29)
bail before trial.
30) The standard of proof in a criminal proceeding is the preponderance of evidence. 30)
31) True bills are declared by judges who find insufficient evidence to justify a prosecution against 31)
an accused defendant.
32) When a criminal suspect is taken into custody, this is the equivalent of a conviction. 32)
33) ROR means that someone can be released from custody temporarily without having to post bail. 33)
34) Prosecutors at both the state and federal levels always prosecute cases that are presented to them 34)
from law enforcement officers and others.
35) Prosecutors use an indictment or a presentment to file charges directly (on their own) against 35)
criminal suspects.
36) Over 90 percent of all guilty pleas are the result of plea bargaining. 36)
37) Alternative sentencing may involve community service or restitution to victims. 37)
38) A back-end sentence is probation. 38)
39) Corrections is largely to blame for the low incidence of offender rehabilitation. 39)
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,40) Whenever a probationer has his/her program revoked, he/she will be returned to prison. 40)
41) The designation, PO, refers only to probation officers. 41)
42) Some amount of recidivism exists in all programs designed to assist offenders. 42)
43) All probationers and parolees are a part of corrections. 43)
44) Misdemeanors are usually punishable by terms of one year or longer in prison. 44)
45) An example of a violent crime is arson. 45)
46) Crimes against the person are now commonly referred to as violent crimes. 46)
47) Hate crimes are usually associated with burglary and larceny against women. 47)
48) The FBI compiles the National Crime Victimization Survey. 48)
49) Self-report information is quite similar to crime reported by the Uniform Crime Reports. 49)
50) An incident is one specific criminal act involving one or more victims. 50)
51) Gradually the NIBRS is replacing the Uniform Crime Reports. 51)
52) First-offenders typically make their livelihood from crime. 52)
53) An habitual offender is very similar to a chronic offender. 53)
54) Career criminals are typically known as situational offenders. 54)
55) Booking is usually done following an arraignment. 55)
56) The Manhattan Bail Project had little impact on bail reform. 56)
57) Pretrial services usually involve determining a defendant's bail eligibility. 57)
58) Prosecutors tend to prosecute every criminal case. 58)
59) Grand juries issue presentments. 59)
60) Suspended impositions of sentences have nothing to do with judicial discretion. 60)
61) Suspended executions of sentences may involve some presentence orders by judges, such as 61)
restitution or community service.
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, 62) Creative sentencing may involve convicted offenders setting up Little League programs in 62)
communities in lieu of incarceration.
63) Parole is early release from prison by the original sentencing judge. 63)
MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
64) Screening and prioritizing cases for prosecution is a function of: 64)
A) the courts. B) law enforcement.
C) corrections. D) None of the above
65) Felonies are: 65)
A) major offenses.
B) punishable by confinement in a federal prison for six months or less.
C) punishable by incarcerative terms in state prison of less than one year.
D) All of the above
66) Compared with the Uniform Crime Reports, the National Crime Victimization Survey: 66)
A) has nothing to do with reporting crime.
B) reports considerably more crime in the U.S.
C) reports about the same amount of crime in the U.S.
D) underreports the actual amount of crime in the U.S.
67) Victimization data is most closely associated with the: 67)
A) UCR. B) NCVS.
C) Crime Index. D) None of the above
68) A specific criminal act involving a single victim is called a(an): 68)
A) victim. B) victimization.
C) incident. D) None of the above
69) Classifying offenders is important in determining their: 69)
A) needs. B) risk.
C) level of custody. D) All of the above
70) Making their living from crime are: 70)
A) career criminals. B) first offenders.
C) sex offenders. D) recidivists.
71) A creative sentence would be: 71)
A) a mandatory two-year period of incarceration in a prison or jail.
B) solitary confinement.
C) imposing life without parole.
D) obligating the convicted offender to make restitution to one or more victims.
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