CRJU300 FIRST EXAM (MONDAY)
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Reporting/Detection of crime includes - CORRECT ANSWER - Proactive: 10% or less of
all crime
Reactive: 90% or more of all crime
Reaction most often to citizen complaint
Probable cause - CORRECT ANSWER - Reasonable belief crime has been committed,
and person committed it/reasons to believe that person has committed crime. MUST HAVE
PROBABLE CAUSE IN ORDER TO MAKE AN ARREST!
Bail (after custody) - CORRECT ANSWER - - Known as pre-trail release
- Types of bail: O.R Own recognizance; cash bail (most serious bail)
- Federal system - pre-trial, release agency
Arraignment - CORRECT ANSWER - Within 48hrs after arrest (excludes weekends,
holidays)
Formal charge - CORRECT ANSWER - Permission to go to trial. If there is no formal
charge, so no trial
How to get formal charge? - CORRECT ANSWER - Preliminary hearing, Grand jury
Probable cause is necessary for both charges
Preliminary hearing (most common way) - CORRECT ANSWER - Adversarial system
involving prosecuting attorney, defense attorney and judge
, Grand jury (every several charges have to go through the grand jury) - CORRECT
ANSWER - Non adversarial system involving citizen jurors: arrest all the drug dealers at
the same time; get out of the hook
Trial - CORRECT ANSWER - - Bifurcated: guilt phase, sentencing phase
- Jury trial: typically 12 jurors
- Unanimous verdict needed for conviction
- Bench trial: no jury, judge only
3 types of Corrections - CORRECT ANSWER - - Institutional corrections: jail, prison
- Intermediate corrections: probation, parole
- Community corrections: house arrest, electronic monitoring
Crime Stages - CORRECT ANSWER - Arrest Stage:
- Detecting crime
- Investigation
- Arrest
- Custody
- Bail (after custody)
Prosecution Stage:
- File charges
- Arrangment
- Answering to court
- Plea negotiations (bargaining process)
Due Process - CORRECT ANSWER - - Let the guilty go free than to violate the rights of
citizens
- Teach the CJ system a lesson
- Goal: Nobody Innocent Behind Bars
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Reporting/Detection of crime includes - CORRECT ANSWER - Proactive: 10% or less of
all crime
Reactive: 90% or more of all crime
Reaction most often to citizen complaint
Probable cause - CORRECT ANSWER - Reasonable belief crime has been committed,
and person committed it/reasons to believe that person has committed crime. MUST HAVE
PROBABLE CAUSE IN ORDER TO MAKE AN ARREST!
Bail (after custody) - CORRECT ANSWER - - Known as pre-trail release
- Types of bail: O.R Own recognizance; cash bail (most serious bail)
- Federal system - pre-trial, release agency
Arraignment - CORRECT ANSWER - Within 48hrs after arrest (excludes weekends,
holidays)
Formal charge - CORRECT ANSWER - Permission to go to trial. If there is no formal
charge, so no trial
How to get formal charge? - CORRECT ANSWER - Preliminary hearing, Grand jury
Probable cause is necessary for both charges
Preliminary hearing (most common way) - CORRECT ANSWER - Adversarial system
involving prosecuting attorney, defense attorney and judge
, Grand jury (every several charges have to go through the grand jury) - CORRECT
ANSWER - Non adversarial system involving citizen jurors: arrest all the drug dealers at
the same time; get out of the hook
Trial - CORRECT ANSWER - - Bifurcated: guilt phase, sentencing phase
- Jury trial: typically 12 jurors
- Unanimous verdict needed for conviction
- Bench trial: no jury, judge only
3 types of Corrections - CORRECT ANSWER - - Institutional corrections: jail, prison
- Intermediate corrections: probation, parole
- Community corrections: house arrest, electronic monitoring
Crime Stages - CORRECT ANSWER - Arrest Stage:
- Detecting crime
- Investigation
- Arrest
- Custody
- Bail (after custody)
Prosecution Stage:
- File charges
- Arrangment
- Answering to court
- Plea negotiations (bargaining process)
Due Process - CORRECT ANSWER - - Let the guilty go free than to violate the rights of
citizens
- Teach the CJ system a lesson
- Goal: Nobody Innocent Behind Bars
