Crime and Punishment Final Exam Questions
Course Introduction
This course explores the complex relationship between crime, law, and punishment by examining various theoretical perspectives and historical developments. Students will analyze the social, cultural, and political factors that influence definitions of crime and the evolution of penal systems. Through the study of case law, policy debates, and literary representations, the course encourages critical engagement with issues such as justice, deterrence, rehabilitation, and the ethical dimensions of punishment. The impact of race, class, and gender on criminal justice practices will also be addressed, offering a comprehensive understanding of how societies respond to criminal behavior and seek to maintain social order.
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Criminal Law 1st Edition by John L. Worrall
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Chapter 1: The Basics of Criminal Law
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Q1) What protects offenders by ensuring proportionate and non-arbitrary punishment?
A)Criminal law
B)Criminal action
C)Criminal rights
D)Criminal activists
Answer: A
Q2) What is the jury practice of either ignoring or misapplying the law in a certain situation that is opposite of what would be expected by tradition, process, or law?
A)Jury notification
B)Jury criminalization
C)Jury nullification
D)Jury inaction
Answer: C
Q3) What protection is provided by the Fourth Amendment?
A)Self-incrimination
B)Due process violations
C)Unreasonable searches and seizures
D)Cruel and unusual punishments
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Limitations on the Criminal Law
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Q1) Discuss the ex post facto law prohibition and how it applies to criminal cases in today's courts. Additionally, give examples of cases where<i> ex post facto</i> has been a factor.
Answer: Should include a discussion of the ex post facto law and what it means to filing of cases, prosecution, and convictions based on non-existent laws before the commission of the crime. The answers must include specific cases based on ex post facto laws.
Q2) Confederation is a system that is known to have a strong central government or authority.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The Eighth Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. Based on this, when is the death penalty not permissible?
A)Murderers who were younger than 19 years old at the time of the crime
B)Mentally retarded
C)Rape cases
D)All the above
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: The Elements of Criminal Liability
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Q1) If George pushes Gary, who cannot swim, into a lake, Gary struggles and cries out for help, and George fails to assist, George can be guilty of a crime.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Unless an intoxicated person driving a vehicle that runs over and kills a pedestrian commits one voluntary act of entering and driving the vehicle, the killing of the pedestrian may be involuntary if the driver has no intent of hitting the victim.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) __________________ exists when the defendant claims to misunderstand the law as it applies to the specific circumstances.
Answer: Mistake of law
Q4) _________________ of the criminal law is that part that defines specific crimes. Answer: The special part
Q5) _________________ are offenses that are not complete without actual harm. Answer: Result crimes
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Chapter 4: Justification Defenses
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Q1) A defense of necessity will likely succeed if a person drives on a suspended license, a relatively minor crime, to take a sick loved one to the hospital.
A)True
B)False
Q2) If a situation arises where an arrest is an unlawful arrest, what force may the victim use to resist the illegal arrest?
A)Any level of force, including deadly force
B)Any level of force necessary to stop the arrest
C)Any level of force necessary to stop the arrest, but not deadly force
D)None of the above
Q3) Deadly force may be used in defense-of-property if the situation involved in defense-of-property evolves into a self-defense or defense of others that justifies the use of deadly force.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The necessity defense, also called the ________________ defense, justifies certain types of criminal activity when it cannot be avoided.
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Chapter 5: Excuse Defenses
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Q1) Which of the following is not one of the several factors that allow one to rely on intoxication as a defense to prosecution?
A)The intoxication is involuntary.
B)The intoxication is voluntary.
C)Does the intoxication negate the mens rea of the crime?
D)Is the crime a strict liability crime?
Q2) Excuse defenses are a waste of court time and taxpayer money because they are too controversial and non-essential.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Identify the five general elements for all non-homicide offense and analyze how each of these elements apply to the excuse of defense. Evaluate why these five elements are important when considering duress.
Q4) The entrapment defense is based on the belief that someone should not be convicted of a crime that the government instigated.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Legislative exclusion may also be known as _______________ exclusion.
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Chapter 6: Complicity and Vicarious Liability
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Q1) In a few situations, accomplice liability is a legal __________________.
Q2) What does the Model Penal Code does use to define the common law terms <i>accessory or principal</i>?
A)One who acts in the same accord as the principal
B)One who solicits another to commit an offense
C)One who forces another to commit an offense
D)None of the above
Q3) If a 17-year-old girl consents to have sex with her 18-year-old boyfriend and the state where the act occurs states that a 17-year-old is considered a juvenile, then the act is considered what?
A)Sex between consenting partners
B)Not a crime because the girl consented
C)Sexual assault of a minor or statutory rape
D)None of the above
Q4) The accomplice's <i>mens rea </i>must match the _____________ of the underlying offense.
Q5) If a company rejects the government's offer for deferred _____________, that company can face dire circumstances.
Q6) Being an __________________ is not quite as serious a being an accomplice.
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Chapter 7: Inchoate Crimes
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Q1) Students are sometimes confused as to the relationship between complicity and ????????? ___________.
Q2) Which test looks at the likelihood of the offenders stopping once the wheels have been set in motion to commit a crime?
A)Probable Desistance Test
B)Indispensible Element Test
C)Improbable Desistance Test
D)Impractical Completion Test
Q3) What test looks not at the proximity to crime completion, but rather at what, if anything, is lacking such that the crime cannot be completed?
A)Probable Desistance Test
B)Unequivocality Test
C)Dispensable Element Test
D)Indispensible Element Test
Q4) According to the "Dangerous Proximity" Test, the actus reus of attempt is satisfied once the offender is nearly able to commit the target crime.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Homicide
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Q1) John is fired from a local chemical plant, and out of revenge, John returns that evening and intentionally sets fire to the plant. John is not aware that a night watchman is asleep in one of the offices of the chemical plant. The watchman dies in the fire. John may be liable for felony murder.
A)True
B)False
Q2) States that grade murders by degree generally treat any murder that is not "willful, premeditated, and deliberate" as __________________.
Q3) What form of punishment has been banned by many states throughout the United States?
A)The death penalty
B)Life imprisonment without parole
C)Life imprisonment with hard-time
D)None of the above
Q4) ______________ is a legally neutral term and for it to be criminal, it must be unjustified and unexcused.
Q5) _________________ occurs when an unintentional death results from another non-felonious criminal act.
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Chapter 9: Assaultive Offenses
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Q1) In the State of California the <i>mens rea</i> of robbery is met by what element?
A)Minor theft
B)Miscellaneous theft
C)Felonious taking
D)Robbery taking
Q2) False imprisonment is dissimilar to kidnapping because it is equally serious a crime because of the felonious acts involved in the crime.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The mens rea of threatened battery assault is the intention to cause another person to fear imminent battery.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is the primary difference in theft from a person and robbery?
A)The taking of personal property
B)The lack of intent to return the property to the rightful owner
C)The presence of violence or instilling of fear in the owner of the property
D)None of the above
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Chapter 10: Property Damage and Invasion
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Q1) If a disgruntled former Wal-Mart employee decided to set a distribution warehouse on fire, that employee would be subjected to federal prosecution because doing so would likely affect the company's ability to ship products around the country.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A person is guilty of arson in the fourth degree when he recklessly damages a building or motor vehicle by intentionally starting a fire or causing an explosion is the fourth degree classification of arson in what state?
A)New York
B)California
C)Florida
D)Texas
Q3) Which of the following may be an element of criminal mischief?
A)Defacement, damage, or destruction to property
B)Destroying a building by explosives
C)Destroying a vehicle by explosives
D)None of the above
Q4) One of the primary cybercrime uses of the computer is ________________.
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Chapter 11: Theft and Analogous Offenses
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Q1) What is blackmail, which consists of taking another's property by threats of future harm?
A)Embezzlement
B)Fencing
C)Extortion
D)None of the above
Q2) Jack discovers that Sally, who works in receiving for a stereo warehouse, is creating false documents of receipt alleging fewer stereos were received in a shipment than she actually received. She has been taking the stereos to the local flea market and selling them. Jack meets Sally after work and confronts her with his knowledge, but offers to remain quiet if she pays him $2000 every month. Regardless of Sally's crime, Jack is guilty of the crime of extortion.
A)True
B)False
Q3) "White-collar crime" is a term used to describe various types of unlawful, nonviolent conduct committed by corporations and individuals including theft or fraud and other violations of trust committed in the course of the offender's occupation.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Public Order, Morality, and Vice Crimes
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Q1) The government's efforts to limit depictions of obscenity on the World Wide Web serves as a prime example that controlling pornography on the Internet is nearly impossible.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Mohammad just moved to the United States and has completed all of the requirements to become a U.S. citizen. Mohammad has one wife from his life in Afghanistan. According to his culture, Mohammad is allowed to have at least five wives. In America having multiple wives is considered _________________ , which is illegal in America.
Q3) According to the laws in every state, anyone under the age of ______________ is prohibited from purchasing, possessing, and/or consuming alcohol.
Q4) Jack and five other people gather to protest a military funeral in Texas. All members of the group may be charged with what crime?
A)Desecration of a grave site
B)Unlawful assembly
C)Illegal gathering
D)None of the above
Q5) In some cases, ____________, alone is the key element in a crime.
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Chapter 13: Terrorism and Offenses Against the State
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Q1) What is the name of an ecoterrorist group that is described as an underground movement by autonomous and anonymous individuals who use sabotage and guerilla warfare to stop what it calls the "exploitation and destruction of the natural environment?"
A)Earth Liberation Front (ELF)
B)Earth-Saving Organization (ESO)
C)Planet Liberation Organization (PLO)
D)None of the above
Q2) Sabotage has a conventional meaning that need not be connected with the criminal law.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Sam is a member of a local environmental group that fosters goals to stop alleged destruction of the environment. One night Sam broke into a chemical plant his group targeted for allegedly dumping chemicals into the local lake and set fire to the administration building. ____________ charges may be filed against Sam.
Q4) Discuss the key provisions of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act. How do these provisions contribute to the defeat of terrorism? What is the importance of taggants in combatting terrorism?
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