Ch14 Exam Questions True False Comparative Law Law In Other - Chapter Test Bank | Law & Society 4e Walsh by Anthony Walsh. DOCX document preview.
CHAPTER 14
TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS
1. Many preliterate societies have homicide rates many times greater than that of the United States.
2. The United States is the world’s most populous common law country.
3. The adversarial system is so called because it evolved from trial by combat.
4. Most legal systems in the world respect the idea of judicial review.
5. Most countries in the world have a common law system.
6. Civil law systems have usually developed after revolutionary upheavals.
7. The French system of criminal justice may be characterized as a crime control model.
8. A French criminal investigation takes place under the presumption of guilt.
9. Both judges and jurors in French trials are allowed to question witnesses and defendants.
10. Ideologically, socialist law considers itself to be a temporary anachronism devoted to its own demise.
11. Socialist law is primarily adversarial.
12. China’s legal system was developed over two thousand years ago by the Emperor Ch’in.
13. The Chinese legal system does not operate on the assumption of innocence at any stage of criminal processing.
14. The Chinese legal system allows defendants to debate with judges, prosecutors, and witnesses at their trials.
15. Islamic law is secular law.
16. There are higher standards for proving murder than for proving fornication under Islamic law.
17. Hadd crimes and/or their penalties can be eliminated or altered only by joint agreement between the king of Saudi Arabia and the highest Islamic religious authorities.
18. The common law is the only legal system that fully abides by the rule of law.
19. Socialist law follows the rule of law least among all legal traditions.
20. The nature of the modern world probably makes the convergence of legal systems inevitable.
21. The song duel has to do with conduct regulation among the Huron.
22. The civil law is generally considered neater and more systematic than common law.
23. In civil law countries, new codes are viewed as replacing rather than supplementing old codes.
24. Precedent is never used to help resolve cases in civil law.
25. The inquisitorial system assumes guilt rather than innocence as in a common law system.
26. The authorities are more likely to arrive at the truth (the guilty found guilty and the innocent freed) in a civil law system such as the French system than in a common law system.
27. Only judges, not jurors, get a vote in a French criminal trial.
28. Chinese defense lawyers rarely argue that their clients are innocent.
29. The death penalty is rarely used in China because its system values confession and rehabilitation.
30. Saudi Arabia has both a religious and a secular constitution.