CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACTUAL TEST
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW PACKAGE
●● American criminal justice consists of three main agencies. Which of
the following is NOT one of those three main agencies?
A) courts
B) police
C) corrections
D) prisons
Answer: D
●● After an arrest has been made, the suspect is brought to the police
station to be
A) incarcerated
B) interrogated
C) booked
D) tried
Answer: C
,●● The purpose of ___ is for a judge to determine whether there is
probably cause to believe that the defendant committed the crime or
crimes with which he or she is charged
A) an indictment
B) an initial appearance
C) an arraignment
D) a preliminary hearing
Answer: D
●● About ___ of criminal defendats plead guilty to the charges against
them in an arrangement called plea bargaining
A) 95%
B) 75%
C) 25%
D) 50%
Answer: A
●● Currently, five general types of punishment are in use in the United
States. Which of the following is NOT one of these punishments?
A) probation
,B) death
C) transportation
D) intermediate punishments
Answer: C
●● Because there is considerable conflict and confusion between
different agencies of criminal justice, an accurate way of defining
American criminal justice may be to call it
A) a non-system
B) a system
C) extremely uniform
D) smoothly operating
Answer: A
●● When politically conservative values are dominant in society, the
principles and policies of the ___ seem to dominate the operation of
criminal justice
A) human rights
B) rehabilitation
C) crime control model
D) claim of right doctrine
, Answer: C
●● A major problem with the crime control model is that a presumption
of guilt goes against one of the oldest and most cherished principles of
American criminal justice. What is this principle?
A) defendants have the right to counsel, even if they are indigent
B) defendants are considered innocent until proven guilty
C) defendants are protected against compelled self-incrimination
D) defendants have the right to a jury of their peers
Answer: B
●● Due process advocates recognize that there can be no equal justice
where the kind of trial a person gets, whether he or she gets a trial at all,
depends substantially on
A) the demands of the court's caseload
B) the region of the country in which the person lives
C) the personal beliefs of his or her counsel
D) how much money the person has
Answer: D
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW PACKAGE
●● American criminal justice consists of three main agencies. Which of
the following is NOT one of those three main agencies?
A) courts
B) police
C) corrections
D) prisons
Answer: D
●● After an arrest has been made, the suspect is brought to the police
station to be
A) incarcerated
B) interrogated
C) booked
D) tried
Answer: C
,●● The purpose of ___ is for a judge to determine whether there is
probably cause to believe that the defendant committed the crime or
crimes with which he or she is charged
A) an indictment
B) an initial appearance
C) an arraignment
D) a preliminary hearing
Answer: D
●● About ___ of criminal defendats plead guilty to the charges against
them in an arrangement called plea bargaining
A) 95%
B) 75%
C) 25%
D) 50%
Answer: A
●● Currently, five general types of punishment are in use in the United
States. Which of the following is NOT one of these punishments?
A) probation
,B) death
C) transportation
D) intermediate punishments
Answer: C
●● Because there is considerable conflict and confusion between
different agencies of criminal justice, an accurate way of defining
American criminal justice may be to call it
A) a non-system
B) a system
C) extremely uniform
D) smoothly operating
Answer: A
●● When politically conservative values are dominant in society, the
principles and policies of the ___ seem to dominate the operation of
criminal justice
A) human rights
B) rehabilitation
C) crime control model
D) claim of right doctrine
, Answer: C
●● A major problem with the crime control model is that a presumption
of guilt goes against one of the oldest and most cherished principles of
American criminal justice. What is this principle?
A) defendants have the right to counsel, even if they are indigent
B) defendants are considered innocent until proven guilty
C) defendants are protected against compelled self-incrimination
D) defendants have the right to a jury of their peers
Answer: B
●● Due process advocates recognize that there can be no equal justice
where the kind of trial a person gets, whether he or she gets a trial at all,
depends substantially on
A) the demands of the court's caseload
B) the region of the country in which the person lives
C) the personal beliefs of his or her counsel
D) how much money the person has
Answer: D
