PROBATION OFFICER END OF COURSE 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Alias Capias - ✔✔The general name for several species of writs the common
characteristics of which is that they require the officer to take the body of the accused or
defendant into custody so that he may be taken before the Court on a certain day.
✔✔Cause Number - ✔✔A number assigned to criminal proceedings which identifies the
particular case with the court. All actions in the case will bear the same number.
✔✔Change of Venue - ✔✔The removal of a suit began in one county for trial, or
removal of a suit from one court to another court of the same county.
✔✔Circumstantial - ✔✔The proof of facts which usually attend other facts sought to be
proved, and which is not direct evidence.
✔✔Civil Law - ✔✔That rule of action which every particular nation, commonwealth or
city has established peculiarly for itself; more properly called "municipal law" to
distinguish it from "law of nature" and from international law; That division of municipal
law which is occupied the exposition and enforcement of civil rights as distinguished
from criminal law.
✔✔Warrant of Commitment - ✔✔A warrant or "mittimus" directed to an officer by which
a person is to be confined in prison, usually issued by a court or magistrate.
✔✔Corpus Delicti - ✔✔The body of the crime; the essence of the crime.
✔✔Criminal Law - ✔✔That branch or division of law which treats of crimes and their
punishments.
✔✔Defendant - ✔✔The person defending or denying; the party against whom relief or
recovery is sought in an action or suit.
✔✔Deferred Plea (Deferred Prosecution) - ✔✔Individual charged with a criminal
offense; however, defendant does not enter a plea, prosecution of the charge is
withheld for a period of one year during which the defendant is placed under supervision
of the Probation Department. If the defendant makes satisfactory adjustment, the
original charges filed against the defendant are dismissed.
✔✔Detainer - ✔✔An instrument placed with an agency for the purpose of detaining the
subject presently in their custody who is "wanted".
✔✔Detention - ✔✔Placing a minor in a facility designed for minors. This is secure
facility aimed at helping the minor cope with the problems.
, ✔✔Docket - ✔✔Formal record entered in brief of the proceeding in a court of justice.
✔✔Docket Number - ✔✔This term is used interchangeably with the terms "Cause
Number" and "Case Number". This is the number assigned to a case by the court for
the purpose of identification.
✔✔Extradition - ✔✔The surrender by on state to another of an individual accused or
convicted of an offense outside its own territory and within the territorial jurisdiction of
the other, which, being competent to try and convict him, demands the surrender.
✔✔Face Sheet - ✔✔First page of a pre-sentence report.
✔✔Felony - ✔✔All crimes and public offenses punishable by death, a sentence of one
(1) year or more, or by imprisonment in the state penitentiary. Includes serious assault,
murder or grand larceny.
✔✔Gault Decision - ✔✔The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court setting forth the fact
that all minors have the same constitutional protection as do adults.
✔✔Habeas Corpus - ✔✔A writ (legal action) which requires a person under arrest to be
brought before a judge or into court. This ensures that a prisoner can be released from
unlawful detention- that is, detention lacking sufficient cause or evidence.
✔✔Indictment - ✔✔Any accusation in writing found and presented to a Grand Jury,
legally convoked and sworn, to the court in which it is impaneled, charging that a person
therein named has done some act, or been guilty of some omission, which by law, is a
public offense, punishable by indictment.
✔✔Informal Adjustment - ✔✔Any type of disposition, used primarily for first offenders,
which does not involve a court hearing.
✔✔Information - ✔✔A formal accusation of crime, differing rom an indictment only that it
is preferred by a prosecuting officer instead of by a Grand Jury. This is a probable
cause affidavit in the State of Indiana
✔✔Injunction - ✔✔An order from a court directing an individual not to commit the same
act.
✔✔Intake - ✔✔The section in juvenile court that makes preliminary investigations to
determine how best to handle a case in the best interest of the child and the community.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Alias Capias - ✔✔The general name for several species of writs the common
characteristics of which is that they require the officer to take the body of the accused or
defendant into custody so that he may be taken before the Court on a certain day.
✔✔Cause Number - ✔✔A number assigned to criminal proceedings which identifies the
particular case with the court. All actions in the case will bear the same number.
✔✔Change of Venue - ✔✔The removal of a suit began in one county for trial, or
removal of a suit from one court to another court of the same county.
✔✔Circumstantial - ✔✔The proof of facts which usually attend other facts sought to be
proved, and which is not direct evidence.
✔✔Civil Law - ✔✔That rule of action which every particular nation, commonwealth or
city has established peculiarly for itself; more properly called "municipal law" to
distinguish it from "law of nature" and from international law; That division of municipal
law which is occupied the exposition and enforcement of civil rights as distinguished
from criminal law.
✔✔Warrant of Commitment - ✔✔A warrant or "mittimus" directed to an officer by which
a person is to be confined in prison, usually issued by a court or magistrate.
✔✔Corpus Delicti - ✔✔The body of the crime; the essence of the crime.
✔✔Criminal Law - ✔✔That branch or division of law which treats of crimes and their
punishments.
✔✔Defendant - ✔✔The person defending or denying; the party against whom relief or
recovery is sought in an action or suit.
✔✔Deferred Plea (Deferred Prosecution) - ✔✔Individual charged with a criminal
offense; however, defendant does not enter a plea, prosecution of the charge is
withheld for a period of one year during which the defendant is placed under supervision
of the Probation Department. If the defendant makes satisfactory adjustment, the
original charges filed against the defendant are dismissed.
✔✔Detainer - ✔✔An instrument placed with an agency for the purpose of detaining the
subject presently in their custody who is "wanted".
✔✔Detention - ✔✔Placing a minor in a facility designed for minors. This is secure
facility aimed at helping the minor cope with the problems.
, ✔✔Docket - ✔✔Formal record entered in brief of the proceeding in a court of justice.
✔✔Docket Number - ✔✔This term is used interchangeably with the terms "Cause
Number" and "Case Number". This is the number assigned to a case by the court for
the purpose of identification.
✔✔Extradition - ✔✔The surrender by on state to another of an individual accused or
convicted of an offense outside its own territory and within the territorial jurisdiction of
the other, which, being competent to try and convict him, demands the surrender.
✔✔Face Sheet - ✔✔First page of a pre-sentence report.
✔✔Felony - ✔✔All crimes and public offenses punishable by death, a sentence of one
(1) year or more, or by imprisonment in the state penitentiary. Includes serious assault,
murder or grand larceny.
✔✔Gault Decision - ✔✔The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court setting forth the fact
that all minors have the same constitutional protection as do adults.
✔✔Habeas Corpus - ✔✔A writ (legal action) which requires a person under arrest to be
brought before a judge or into court. This ensures that a prisoner can be released from
unlawful detention- that is, detention lacking sufficient cause or evidence.
✔✔Indictment - ✔✔Any accusation in writing found and presented to a Grand Jury,
legally convoked and sworn, to the court in which it is impaneled, charging that a person
therein named has done some act, or been guilty of some omission, which by law, is a
public offense, punishable by indictment.
✔✔Informal Adjustment - ✔✔Any type of disposition, used primarily for first offenders,
which does not involve a court hearing.
✔✔Information - ✔✔A formal accusation of crime, differing rom an indictment only that it
is preferred by a prosecuting officer instead of by a Grand Jury. This is a probable
cause affidavit in the State of Indiana
✔✔Injunction - ✔✔An order from a court directing an individual not to commit the same
act.
✔✔Intake - ✔✔The section in juvenile court that makes preliminary investigations to
determine how best to handle a case in the best interest of the child and the community.
