CRIMINAL JUSTICE QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE
SOLUTIONS.
1. Which is the correct order of the criminal process involving law enforcement?
- ANS initial contact; criminal investigation; arrest and booking
2. Which perspective of criminal justice maintains the goal of repairing harm hat
criminal offenses inflict upon victims, offenders, and communities?
- ANS restorative justice model
3. Which is the correct order of the criminal process involving courts?
- ANS charging; initial appearance; preliminary hearing, or arraignment; bail
and detention; plea bargaining; trial; sentencing and appeals
4. Which perspective of criminal justice argues that crime is the result of the
burdens and benefits in society not being equally distributed among its
members?
- ANS social justice model
5. When offenders are released from prison, they are supervised by
______________ officers who work closely with law enforcement to monitor their
behavior. - ANS parole
6. What is a crime? - ANS intentional act or omission to act, neither justified nor
excused, that is in violation of the criminal law and punishable by the state.
7. Which statement is not true about the police? - ANS Their only job is to enforce
the law.
8. Which court is the highest court in the court system? - ANS US supreme court
9. Which perspective of criminal justice argues that the purpose of the criminal
justice system is to ensure fairness under the law? - ANS due process model
10. Which perspective of criminal justice identifies the repression of crime as the
most important function of the criminal justice system? - ANS crime control model
11. what is the mostly widely used source of crime data that presents data on crime
reported to the police, number of arrests, and number of persons arrested? -
ANS UCR
12. What is the study of the characteristics of crime victims and the reason why
certain people are more likely than others to become victims of crime? - ANS
victimology.
, 13. What does dark figure of crime refer to? - ANS the amount of unreported or
undiscovered crime.
14. Which is the largest ongoing victimization survey in the United States today?
- ANS NCVS
15. Rank ages from most likely to least likely to commit crimes based on the premise
of the age-rank curve. - ANS late adolescences, preadolescence, adulthood
16. What theory argues offenders commit crimes because of traits, characteristics,
deficits, or psychopathologies they possess? - ANS trait theory
17. What theory blames crime on inequalities in power? - ANS conflict theory
18. What school believes that criminals are rational, intelligent people who have free
will and the ability to make choices? - ANS classical school
19. What theory suggests that people become victims because of the situations they
put themselves in? - ANS lifestyle theory
20. Which theory proposes crime is the product of social and economic factors
located within a neighborhood? - ANS cultural deviance theory
21. What is NOT qualified as an excuse defense? - ANS self-defense
22. What is a defense wherein a defendant admits responsibility but argues that,
under the circumstances, what he or she did was right? - ANS justification
23. What is a body of law that identifies behaviors harmful to society and specifies
their punishment? - ANS Substantive criminal law
24. What defines behaviors, such as prostitution and gambling, hat are considered
wrong because they have been prohibited by criminal statues, rather than
because they are evil in themselves? - ANS Mala Prohibita
25. Which Supreme Court decision held that the Fifth Amendment guarantee of a
grand jury indictment applied only to federal-not-state-trials, and that not all
constitutional amendments were applicable to the states? - ANS Hurtado v
California
26. What does the fourth amendment protect citizens against?
- ANS unreasonable governmental invasion of privacy
SOLUTIONS.
1. Which is the correct order of the criminal process involving law enforcement?
- ANS initial contact; criminal investigation; arrest and booking
2. Which perspective of criminal justice maintains the goal of repairing harm hat
criminal offenses inflict upon victims, offenders, and communities?
- ANS restorative justice model
3. Which is the correct order of the criminal process involving courts?
- ANS charging; initial appearance; preliminary hearing, or arraignment; bail
and detention; plea bargaining; trial; sentencing and appeals
4. Which perspective of criminal justice argues that crime is the result of the
burdens and benefits in society not being equally distributed among its
members?
- ANS social justice model
5. When offenders are released from prison, they are supervised by
______________ officers who work closely with law enforcement to monitor their
behavior. - ANS parole
6. What is a crime? - ANS intentional act or omission to act, neither justified nor
excused, that is in violation of the criminal law and punishable by the state.
7. Which statement is not true about the police? - ANS Their only job is to enforce
the law.
8. Which court is the highest court in the court system? - ANS US supreme court
9. Which perspective of criminal justice argues that the purpose of the criminal
justice system is to ensure fairness under the law? - ANS due process model
10. Which perspective of criminal justice identifies the repression of crime as the
most important function of the criminal justice system? - ANS crime control model
11. what is the mostly widely used source of crime data that presents data on crime
reported to the police, number of arrests, and number of persons arrested? -
ANS UCR
12. What is the study of the characteristics of crime victims and the reason why
certain people are more likely than others to become victims of crime? - ANS
victimology.
, 13. What does dark figure of crime refer to? - ANS the amount of unreported or
undiscovered crime.
14. Which is the largest ongoing victimization survey in the United States today?
- ANS NCVS
15. Rank ages from most likely to least likely to commit crimes based on the premise
of the age-rank curve. - ANS late adolescences, preadolescence, adulthood
16. What theory argues offenders commit crimes because of traits, characteristics,
deficits, or psychopathologies they possess? - ANS trait theory
17. What theory blames crime on inequalities in power? - ANS conflict theory
18. What school believes that criminals are rational, intelligent people who have free
will and the ability to make choices? - ANS classical school
19. What theory suggests that people become victims because of the situations they
put themselves in? - ANS lifestyle theory
20. Which theory proposes crime is the product of social and economic factors
located within a neighborhood? - ANS cultural deviance theory
21. What is NOT qualified as an excuse defense? - ANS self-defense
22. What is a defense wherein a defendant admits responsibility but argues that,
under the circumstances, what he or she did was right? - ANS justification
23. What is a body of law that identifies behaviors harmful to society and specifies
their punishment? - ANS Substantive criminal law
24. What defines behaviors, such as prostitution and gambling, hat are considered
wrong because they have been prohibited by criminal statues, rather than
because they are evil in themselves? - ANS Mala Prohibita
25. Which Supreme Court decision held that the Fifth Amendment guarantee of a
grand jury indictment applied only to federal-not-state-trials, and that not all
constitutional amendments were applicable to the states? - ANS Hurtado v
California
26. What does the fourth amendment protect citizens against?
- ANS unreasonable governmental invasion of privacy
