PROBATION OFFICER COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Adult Court - ✔✔If a juvenile has been waived into adult court, but has not yet been
convicted, then commits a new offense, where is the new offense filed?
✔✔Defendant and his attorney, prosecutor, probation, community corrections, doc,
criminal justice institute - ✔✔Who can see a PSI?
✔✔48 hrs - ✔✔What is the time limit for a detention hearing after a child is taken into
custody in a CHINS proceeding?
✔✔Compile and publish stats, inform court/probation depts of legislation, keep info on
all depts, compensation - ✔✔What powers do the Indiana Judicial Center have?
✔✔45-65 yrs with 55 standard and or $10000 - ✔✔What are the Murder terms?
✔✔transfer defendant to receiving authority within 5 days unless ordered by the court,
deliver to the receiving authority, deliver a copy of the judgement of conviction and
sentence, obtain a receipt for the defendant from the receiving authority - ✔✔What are
the responsibilities of a sheriff with regard to DOC commitments?
✔✔Class 1 is day for day, class 2 is one day for every 2 served, class 3 is no credit -
✔✔What are the credit time classes?
✔✔Truancy, runaway, curfew, minor in possession of alcohol, minor consuming alcohol,
incorrigibility - ✔✔List the status offenses (6)?
✔✔A child must be at least 10 at the time the murder was committed in order to be
waived into adult court. - ✔✔What is the minimum age for murder waiver?
✔✔14 days - ✔✔How long can a juvenile be detained for a mental/medical exam?
✔✔caseworker, law enforcement officer, po - ✔✔Who may take a child into custody
during a CHINS investigation?
✔✔to determine if there is probable cause of detention, to determine if juvenile shall be
detained until the fact finding hearing - ✔✔What is the purpose of a detention hearing?
✔✔misdemeanor: 10-20, felony: 15-30 - ✔✔What are the probation monthly fees?
✔✔misdemeanor: 50, felony: 100 - ✔✔What are the administrative/initial fees?
, ✔✔Standard is 6 months, no more than 1 yr with court order. - ✔✔How long can an
informal adjustment last (CHINS or delinquency)?
✔✔A child under 18 who is in need of treatment, care or rehabilitation that: is not
receiving, unlikely to accept voluntarily, unlikely to be provided/accepted without
coercive intervention of the court. - ✔✔What is the definition of a delinquent child?
✔✔If less than 365, the defendant may petition the court for a modification, the court
must schedule a hearing, notify prosecutor, and receive a conduct report from DOC -
✔✔What are the time limits for filing a modification (less)?
✔✔If more than 365, the defendant must file petition to modify, the prosecutor must
agree to the modification before the court can grant. A hearing is not necessary. -
✔✔What are the time limits for filing a modification (more)?
✔✔Unless with parent/adult, going to/from work, school activity, or a religious event: if
under 15, 11pm-5am every night, if 15-17, 1am-5am Sat/Sun, 11pm-5am Mon-Fri -
✔✔What are the curfew regulation in Indiana?
✔✔Parent has allowed child to commit a sex offense, child is a victim of a sex offense,
parent has refused to participate in a disciplinary hearing involving improper behavior at
school, child is a missing child - ✔✔What are the qualifications that make a juvenile a
CHINS? (list 4)
✔✔home detention, electronic monitoring, pay restitution, community service - ✔✔What
are the dispositional alternatives for status offenses? (4)
✔✔right to remain silent, know charges, counsel, confront/cross examine witnesses,
appeal, transcript of proceedings, all except right to trial by jury - ✔✔What rights did In
Re Gault give to juveniles?
✔✔rape, child molesting, child seduction, sexual battery - ✔✔What convictions require
registration (sex offenses)? (4)
✔✔a child who commits a traffic offense must be under 16 to remain in juvenile court. -
✔✔At what age does the juvenile court stop having jurisdiction over juveniles who
commit traffic offenses?
✔✔a sentence of no more than 60 days which is served on weekends. No good time
credit is earned. Must be served at local jail/penal facility. Sentence must include length
of imprisonment, days to be confined, conditions of confinement. - ✔✔What is an
intermittent sentence?
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Adult Court - ✔✔If a juvenile has been waived into adult court, but has not yet been
convicted, then commits a new offense, where is the new offense filed?
✔✔Defendant and his attorney, prosecutor, probation, community corrections, doc,
criminal justice institute - ✔✔Who can see a PSI?
✔✔48 hrs - ✔✔What is the time limit for a detention hearing after a child is taken into
custody in a CHINS proceeding?
✔✔Compile and publish stats, inform court/probation depts of legislation, keep info on
all depts, compensation - ✔✔What powers do the Indiana Judicial Center have?
✔✔45-65 yrs with 55 standard and or $10000 - ✔✔What are the Murder terms?
✔✔transfer defendant to receiving authority within 5 days unless ordered by the court,
deliver to the receiving authority, deliver a copy of the judgement of conviction and
sentence, obtain a receipt for the defendant from the receiving authority - ✔✔What are
the responsibilities of a sheriff with regard to DOC commitments?
✔✔Class 1 is day for day, class 2 is one day for every 2 served, class 3 is no credit -
✔✔What are the credit time classes?
✔✔Truancy, runaway, curfew, minor in possession of alcohol, minor consuming alcohol,
incorrigibility - ✔✔List the status offenses (6)?
✔✔A child must be at least 10 at the time the murder was committed in order to be
waived into adult court. - ✔✔What is the minimum age for murder waiver?
✔✔14 days - ✔✔How long can a juvenile be detained for a mental/medical exam?
✔✔caseworker, law enforcement officer, po - ✔✔Who may take a child into custody
during a CHINS investigation?
✔✔to determine if there is probable cause of detention, to determine if juvenile shall be
detained until the fact finding hearing - ✔✔What is the purpose of a detention hearing?
✔✔misdemeanor: 10-20, felony: 15-30 - ✔✔What are the probation monthly fees?
✔✔misdemeanor: 50, felony: 100 - ✔✔What are the administrative/initial fees?
, ✔✔Standard is 6 months, no more than 1 yr with court order. - ✔✔How long can an
informal adjustment last (CHINS or delinquency)?
✔✔A child under 18 who is in need of treatment, care or rehabilitation that: is not
receiving, unlikely to accept voluntarily, unlikely to be provided/accepted without
coercive intervention of the court. - ✔✔What is the definition of a delinquent child?
✔✔If less than 365, the defendant may petition the court for a modification, the court
must schedule a hearing, notify prosecutor, and receive a conduct report from DOC -
✔✔What are the time limits for filing a modification (less)?
✔✔If more than 365, the defendant must file petition to modify, the prosecutor must
agree to the modification before the court can grant. A hearing is not necessary. -
✔✔What are the time limits for filing a modification (more)?
✔✔Unless with parent/adult, going to/from work, school activity, or a religious event: if
under 15, 11pm-5am every night, if 15-17, 1am-5am Sat/Sun, 11pm-5am Mon-Fri -
✔✔What are the curfew regulation in Indiana?
✔✔Parent has allowed child to commit a sex offense, child is a victim of a sex offense,
parent has refused to participate in a disciplinary hearing involving improper behavior at
school, child is a missing child - ✔✔What are the qualifications that make a juvenile a
CHINS? (list 4)
✔✔home detention, electronic monitoring, pay restitution, community service - ✔✔What
are the dispositional alternatives for status offenses? (4)
✔✔right to remain silent, know charges, counsel, confront/cross examine witnesses,
appeal, transcript of proceedings, all except right to trial by jury - ✔✔What rights did In
Re Gault give to juveniles?
✔✔rape, child molesting, child seduction, sexual battery - ✔✔What convictions require
registration (sex offenses)? (4)
✔✔a child who commits a traffic offense must be under 16 to remain in juvenile court. -
✔✔At what age does the juvenile court stop having jurisdiction over juveniles who
commit traffic offenses?
✔✔a sentence of no more than 60 days which is served on weekends. No good time
credit is earned. Must be served at local jail/penal facility. Sentence must include length
of imprisonment, days to be confined, conditions of confinement. - ✔✔What is an
intermittent sentence?
