Legal Systems and Society Exam Bank
Course Introduction
This course provides an in-depth exploration of the ways in which legal systems shape and are shaped by the societies in which they operate. Students will examine the foundations and structures of various legal systems, including common law, civil law, and religious law, and analyze their relationships with cultural norms, political institutions, and social change. Through comparative perspectives and case studies, the course evaluates how laws address issues of justice, rights, and social order, while also considering the roles of legal professionals and the impact of globalization on law and society.
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Criminal Justice A Brief Introduction 12th Edition by Frank
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Schmalleger
Chapter 1: What Is Criminal Justice
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Q1) Do you see a trend in our society in favor of individual rights or public interests? Cite recent examples to support your position.
Answer: Use the Patriot Act of 2001,TSA restrictions on passengers boarding planes and subject to search,profiling of Muslims,and other related topics.
Q2) Preliminary Hearing
Answer: C
Q3) Define and discuss the term Administration of Justice.
Answer: Discussion would include information on detection,apprehension,detention,pretrial release,post-trial release,prosecution,adjudication,correctional supervision,and rehabilitation of accused persons or other criminal offenders.
Q4) ___________ occurs when there is conduct in violation of the criminal laws of a state,the federal government,or a local jurisdiction for which there is no legally acceptable justification or excuse.
Answer: Crime
Q5) Information
Answer: B
Q6) Probable Cause
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: The Crime Picture
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Q1) Which of the following is a Part II offense?
A) motor vehicle theft
B) simple assault
C) burglary
D) robbery
Answer: B
Q2) All of the following are Part I property crime offenses except:
A) Burglary.
B) Arson.
C) Larceny.
D) Robbery.
Answer: D
Q3) All of the following are Part I violent crime offenses except:
A) Burglary.
B) Aggravated assault.
C) Rape.
D) Murder.
Answer: A
Q4) An unlawful attack by one person upon another is the crime of ________.
Answer: Assault
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Chapter 3: The Search for Causes
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Q1) ______________ is known as the father of modern criminology.
A) Merton
B) Lombroso
C) Merton.
D) Miller
Answer: B
Q2) A perspective on criminological thought that views offensive and deviant behavior as the product of dysfunctional personality.
A) Classical School
B) Feminist criminology
C) Social Learning Theory
D) Psychological School
Answer: D
Q3) Which of the following terms refers to normlessness?
A) conflict
B) subculture
C) anomie.
D) social ecology
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Criminal Law
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Q1) Which of the following types of law is based on the assumption that acts injure not just individuals,but society as a whole?
A) tort law
B) administrative law
C) civil law
D) criminal law
Q2) Which type of law refers to the body of regulations that the government creates to control the activities of industry,business,and individuals?
A) case law
B) procedural law
C) administrative law
D) criminal law
Q3) The M'Naghten rule,The Durham rule,and the Brawner rule all are connected with insanity defense in criminal court.Describe each rule and emphasize the difference between the three.
Q4) What four broad categories of criminal defenses does our legal system recognize? Under what circumstances might each be employed?
Q5) What is the purpose of law? What would a society without laws be like?
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Chapter 5: Policing: History and Structure
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Q1) Which commission,started in 1931,recognized prohibition as unenforceable as well as a catalyst to police corruption?
A) Wickersham
B) Bean
C)Price
D) McWhorter
Q2) Explain the eGuardian System and its effect on future police work.
Q3) National Park Service,US Park Police
A)Department of Homeland Security
B)Department of the Interior
C)Department of Justice
D)Department of Health and Human Services
Q4) One of the major factors determining the development of American law enforcement was the frontier.Discuss some of the early Americans and tactics,mentioned in the chapter that had an impact on police work
Q5) In 1844 New York combined their day and night forces into the New York City Police Department.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Policing: Purpose and Organization
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Q1) Characterized by pride in professional crime fighting.Police departments during this period focused most of their resources on solving "traditional" crimes,such as murder,rape,and burglary,and on capturing offenders.
A)Community
B)Reform Era
C)Political Era
D)New Era
Q2) The special responsibility to adhere to moral duty and obligation that is inherent in police work is part of the professional code of ___________ for police officers.
Q3) A crime-analysis and police-management process built on crime mapping that was developed by the New York City Police Department.
A) POST
B) NLETS
C) Span of Control
D) Comp Stat
Q4) We are presently in the community era of the style of policing.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Policing: Legal Aspects
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Q1) Compare and contrast the issues relative to electronic gathering evidence.
Q2) The U.S.Supreme Court ruled that informant information can establish probable cause if two criteria are met.Define the two criteria and cite the U.S.Supreme Court case that developed the two pronged test.
Q3) The plain-view doctrine still applies if officers move objects so they can see evidence otherwise hidden from view.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The right to reasonable bail
A)Sixth
B)Fourth
C)Eight
D)Fifth
Q5) Which Supreme Court ruling applied the principles,regarding the exclusionary rule,developed in Weeks v.U.S.to trials in state courts?
A) Illinois v. Gates
B) Horton v. California
C) U.S. v. Leon
D) Mapp v. Ohio
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Chapter 8: Policing: Issues and Challenges
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Q1) __________ is the branch of a police organization tasked with investigating charges of wrongdoing involving members of the department.
Q2) Less-lethal weapons are specifically designed to kill suspects.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Police officers run the risk of infection and even death in their day to day contact with the public.List and define four different biological concerns that are found in routine police work.
Q4) Of the 43.5 million people who have face-to-face contact with the police in a typical year,what percentage is subject to the use or threat of force?
A) 92..3%
B) 78.2%
C) 1.6%
D) 25%
Q5) We have found that stress is a natural component of police work and some stressors in police work are particularly destructive.List and define three areas of stress that affect police officers and discuss how these stressors impact the officers' life.
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Chapter 9: The Courts: Structure and Participants
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Q1) The dual court system of the United States consists of:
A) State and Courts of Appeals
B) Federal and State Courts
C) Federal and District Courts
D) Federal and State courts of Appeal
Q2) A licensed trial lawyer hired or appointed to conduct the legal defense of a person accused of a crime and to represent him or her before a court of law.
Q3) A licensed trial lawyer hired or appointed to conduct the legal defense of a person accused of a crime and to represent him or her before a court of law.
A)Defense Attorney
B)Bailiff
C)Judge
D)Public Defender
Q4) A person who has special knowledge and skills recognized by the court as relevant to the determination of guilt or innocence.Who may express opinions or draw conclusions in their testimony is called a _________________ witness.
Q5) Trial de novo literally means a ________ trial.
Q6) Describe the three tiered structure of the federal court system.
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Chapter 10: Pretrial Activities and the Criminal Trial
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Q1) Testimony given in a criminal trial is governed by many rules.Define testimony and the various obstacles that affect the admissibility of testimony,such as the hearsay rule.Be comprehensive in your answer citing examples of each rule that is discussed.
Q2) The process of negotiating an agreement among the defendant,the prosecutor,and the court as to an appropriate plea and associated sentence in a given case is known as:
Q3) Automatic video recording of the proceedings,using ceiling-mounted cameras with voice-initiated switching is a step in attempting to improve the adjudication process.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What type of plea is most similar to a guilty plea?
A) nolo contendere
B) innocence
C) not guilty
D) standing mute
Q5) Define and discuss the first appearance and the pre-trial release.What occurs at each stage of these pretrial activities? Why are they important?
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Chapter 11: Sentencing
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Q1) Structured Sentencing
A)A model of criminal punishment that includes determinate and commission created presumptive sentencing schemes.
B)A sentencing principle that holds that an offender's criminal history should objectively be taken into account in sentencing decisions.
C)A model of criminal punishment in which an offender is given a fixed term of imprisonment that may be reduced by good time.
D)A sentencing principle that holds that the severity of the sanctions should bear a direct relationship to the seriousness of the crime.
Q2) A capital offense is punishable by death.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The U.S.Constitutional Amendment that prohibits cruel and unusual punishment is:
A) Fourth
B) Fifth
C) Sixth
D) Eight
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Chapter 12: Probation,parole,and Community Corrections
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Q1) What are the job functions of probation and parole officers? What are the two main conflicting sets of duties they face in their daily work?
Q2) _______________ is the release of an inmate from prison to community supervision under a set of conditions for remaining on parole.If a condition is violated,the individual might be returned to prison or might face another sanction in the community.
Q3) A ____________________ is a sentence explicitly requiring the convicted offender to serve a period of confinement in a local,state,or federal facility,followed by a period of probation.
Q4) Which of the following sentences is not an example of an intermediate sanction?
A) intensive probation
B) shock incarceration
C) simple probation
D) house arrest with electronic monitoring
Q5) A probation officer must get a search warrant before a search of a probationer's residence is permitted.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Define and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of probation and parole.
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Chapter 13: Prisons and Jails
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Q1) The ________________ in New York State is considered the birth place of parole in the United States and was based on the concept of an earned early release.
Q2) One of the best known internal classification systems in use today,in prisons,is the adult internal management system (AIMS).AIMS assess an inmate's predatory potential by quantifying three aspects of the inmate's history.List and define those three aspects and explain how effective on ineffective you feel they are.
Q3) Design Capacity
A)The number of inmates a prison can handle according to the judgment of experts.
B)The number of inmates a prison can effectively accommodate based upon management considerations.
C)The number of inmates a prison was intended to hold when it was built or modified.
D)The size of the correctional population an institution can effectively hold.
Q4) The Bureau of Prisons classifies its institutions into five categories.List and define those five categories and give examples of the type of inmate that is sent to each prison.
Q5) ________ is the movement toward the wider use of private prisons.
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Chapter 14: Prison Life
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Q1) The final stage in the processing of adjudicated juveniles in which a decision is made on the form of treatment or penalty that should be imposed on the child.
A) dispositional hearing
B). juvenile disposition
C) adjudicatory hearing
D) intake
Q2) The ten years between 1970 and 1980 have been called ________ of prison riots.
A) the "explosive decade"
B) the "historic era"
C) the "death knell"
D) the "mainstay"
Q3) "Crack Kids" in prison argot are:
A) Babies born in prison.
B) Streetwise young women with no respect for traditional prison values.
C) Streetwise young women who are drug dealers in prison.
D) Female prison inmates who are children of drug dealers.
Q4) Prison argot is the slang characteristic of prison subcultures and prison life.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Drugs and Crime
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Q1) Alphonse Bertillon created the first:
A) weapon of mass destruction.
B) human clone.
C) "modern" system of personal identification.
D) DNA profile.
Q2) The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act was passed in:
A) 1995.
B) 1990.
C) 1970.
D) 1980.
Q3) Drug courts are a special state,county,or municipal court that offers first-time substance-abuse offenders judicially mandated and court supervised treatment alternatives to prison.They are innovative and are modeled after the:
A) New York Drug Court model.
B) Dade County Drug Court Model.
C) Hillsborough County Drug Court Model.
D) Pennsylvania Drug Court Model.
Q4) Islamic courts typically exist on three levels.What are those three levels and how do they differ from each other.
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