CCJS 100 – Exam 1: Introduction to the Criminal Justice
System
Misdemeanors - correct answer ✔✔What is the bottom layer of the wedding cake model?
Mala in Se - correct answer ✔✔Offenses that are wrong by their very nature
Mala Prohibit - correct answer ✔✔Offenses that are wrong because they are prohibited
Purposes of Criminal Justice - correct answer ✔✔Doing Justice, Controlling Crime, Preventing
Crime
Federalism - correct answer ✔✔A system of government in which power is divided between a
central government and regional governments.
Discretion - correct answer ✔✔the authority making decisions based on their own judgement
Police, courts, and corrections - correct answer ✔✔What are the subsystems of the criminal
justice system?
Discretion, resource dependence, sequential tasks, filtering. - correct answer ✔✔Major
characteristics of the criminal justice system?
Dual court system - correct answer ✔✔A separate judicial system for each state in addition to a
national system
Overcrowding - correct answer ✔✔What is a challenge of corrections?
, indictment - correct answer ✔✔A document charging an individual with a specific crime
Misdemeanors - correct answer ✔✔Crimes that earn a maximum of one year in jail
Felonies - correct answer ✔✔Crimes that earn a minimum of one year in prison
Victimless crimes - correct answer ✔✔Crimes that involve an exchange of illegal goods or
services that are in strong demand.
Dark-figure of crime - correct answer ✔✔NCVS repots are used to highlight what?
Uniformed Crime Reports (UCR) - correct answer ✔✔Statistical date reported from each police
department to the FBI
Classical school - correct answer ✔✔School of criminology that views behaviors as a result of
free will and weighing costs and benefits
Positivist criminology - correct answer ✔✔Social, biological, and psychological factors are apart
of which school of criminology?
Criminogenic - correct answer ✔✔When people are born criminals they are ...?
Social structure theory - correct answer ✔✔Theory explaining why criminal behavior is related
to social structure?
Theory of differential association - correct answer ✔✔Theory explaining how family makes
people criminal.
System
Misdemeanors - correct answer ✔✔What is the bottom layer of the wedding cake model?
Mala in Se - correct answer ✔✔Offenses that are wrong by their very nature
Mala Prohibit - correct answer ✔✔Offenses that are wrong because they are prohibited
Purposes of Criminal Justice - correct answer ✔✔Doing Justice, Controlling Crime, Preventing
Crime
Federalism - correct answer ✔✔A system of government in which power is divided between a
central government and regional governments.
Discretion - correct answer ✔✔the authority making decisions based on their own judgement
Police, courts, and corrections - correct answer ✔✔What are the subsystems of the criminal
justice system?
Discretion, resource dependence, sequential tasks, filtering. - correct answer ✔✔Major
characteristics of the criminal justice system?
Dual court system - correct answer ✔✔A separate judicial system for each state in addition to a
national system
Overcrowding - correct answer ✔✔What is a challenge of corrections?
, indictment - correct answer ✔✔A document charging an individual with a specific crime
Misdemeanors - correct answer ✔✔Crimes that earn a maximum of one year in jail
Felonies - correct answer ✔✔Crimes that earn a minimum of one year in prison
Victimless crimes - correct answer ✔✔Crimes that involve an exchange of illegal goods or
services that are in strong demand.
Dark-figure of crime - correct answer ✔✔NCVS repots are used to highlight what?
Uniformed Crime Reports (UCR) - correct answer ✔✔Statistical date reported from each police
department to the FBI
Classical school - correct answer ✔✔School of criminology that views behaviors as a result of
free will and weighing costs and benefits
Positivist criminology - correct answer ✔✔Social, biological, and psychological factors are apart
of which school of criminology?
Criminogenic - correct answer ✔✔When people are born criminals they are ...?
Social structure theory - correct answer ✔✔Theory explaining why criminal behavior is related
to social structure?
Theory of differential association - correct answer ✔✔Theory explaining how family makes
people criminal.
