CRJ Exam Review Questions and
Answers
Confinement - Answer-imprisonment
Female Offenders - Answer-women who are convicted and sentenced; just over 7 percent of prison
inmates are females
Solitary Confinement - Answer-the practice of confining an inmate such that there is no contact with
other people
Bill of Rights - Answer-The first ten amendments to the Constitution
14th Amendment - Answer-Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed
equal protection of the laws
What is an arrest? - Answer-The taking of a person into custody in a case and in the manner authorized
by law.
, Rehabilitation - Answer-A program for reforming the offender to prevent later offenses
Grand Jury - Answer-A group of citizens that decides whether there is sufficient evidence to accuse
someone of a crime.
Age of Enlightenment - Answer-the time period in the 1700s during which many Europeans began to
break away from tradition and rethink political and social norms
community-based corrections - Answer-correctional programs operating within society at large rather
than behind prison walls
diversion programs - Answer-programs of rehabilitation that remove offenders from the normal
channels of the criminal justice process, thus enabling them to avoid the stigma of a criminal label
Bail - Answer-A sum of money used as a security deposit to ensure that an accused person returns for
his or her trial
Sequestering - Answer-isolating members of a jury
double jeopardy - Answer-Being tried twice for the same crime
search warrant - Answer-A court order allowing law enforcement officers to search a suspect's home or
business and take specific items as evidence
Plain View Doctrine - Answer-officers may examine and use as evidence, without a warrant, contraband
or evidence that is in open view at a location where they are legally permitted to be
exclusionary rule - Answer-improperly gathered evidence may not be introduced in a criminal trial
Answers
Confinement - Answer-imprisonment
Female Offenders - Answer-women who are convicted and sentenced; just over 7 percent of prison
inmates are females
Solitary Confinement - Answer-the practice of confining an inmate such that there is no contact with
other people
Bill of Rights - Answer-The first ten amendments to the Constitution
14th Amendment - Answer-Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed
equal protection of the laws
What is an arrest? - Answer-The taking of a person into custody in a case and in the manner authorized
by law.
, Rehabilitation - Answer-A program for reforming the offender to prevent later offenses
Grand Jury - Answer-A group of citizens that decides whether there is sufficient evidence to accuse
someone of a crime.
Age of Enlightenment - Answer-the time period in the 1700s during which many Europeans began to
break away from tradition and rethink political and social norms
community-based corrections - Answer-correctional programs operating within society at large rather
than behind prison walls
diversion programs - Answer-programs of rehabilitation that remove offenders from the normal
channels of the criminal justice process, thus enabling them to avoid the stigma of a criminal label
Bail - Answer-A sum of money used as a security deposit to ensure that an accused person returns for
his or her trial
Sequestering - Answer-isolating members of a jury
double jeopardy - Answer-Being tried twice for the same crime
search warrant - Answer-A court order allowing law enforcement officers to search a suspect's home or
business and take specific items as evidence
Plain View Doctrine - Answer-officers may examine and use as evidence, without a warrant, contraband
or evidence that is in open view at a location where they are legally permitted to be
exclusionary rule - Answer-improperly gathered evidence may not be introduced in a criminal trial
