Exam Questions Chapter 2 True False Justice And The Law - Chapter Test Bank | Law & Society 4e Walsh by Anthony Walsh. DOCX document preview.
CHAPTER 2
TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS
1. Aristotelian justice is all about compassion and equality.
2. An Aristotelian would assert that a singer making $10 million a year and contributing nothing to society but entertainment is making his or her money unjustly.
3. Substantive retributive justice is about how society determines just punishment for the guilty.
4. Distributive justice is concerned with how a political entity distributes resources to its members.
5. Procedural retributive justice is about how society determines guilt or innocence.
6. Most examples of rules that may be defined as natural law rules are found in religious texts such as the Qur’an or the Bible.
7. Natural law fits Max Weber’s formal-rational type of law.
8. Evolutionary thinkers believe that there are such things as law genes.
9. The term naturalistic fallacy refers to confusing what is with what ought to be.
10. Evolutionary theorists assert that behaviors such as deception, aggression, and rape are products of natural selection and are thus natural.
11. Evolutionary natural law theorists tend to be more absolutist in their thinking about natural law than transcendental natural law theorists.
12. Law and justice are basically the same thing.
13. Many decisions in early equity courts violated common law principles.
14. According to transcendental natural law, humans are assumed to have an innate sense of justice.
15. A mala prohibita crime is a crime that is inherently evil.
16. Lettres de cachet were sealed letters ordering an individual’s incarceration without charge or trial for anyone who had displeased some high official in France.
17. The most problematic element of the rule of law is the requirement that a system of procedures to hold the government to its fundamental principles and values should be in place.
18. The crime control and due process models of criminal justice are entirely separate models.
19. The crime control model emphasizes community protection.
20. The due process model is concerned with the efficiency of the legal process.
21. Assessing different monetary fines for the same traffic offense in Europe is known as the “just desserts model.”
22. Legal realists evaluate law not “as written” but, rather, law “as practiced.”
23. Prostitution, gambling, and drug usage are examples of mala in se crimes.
24. Jus cogens is a fundamental philosophy of legal realism.
25. Rigg v. Palmer was a famous murder case involving natural law.
26. Cesare Beccaria was most interested in reforming the legal system.
27. Sir Edmund Coke is known as the father of due process.
28. Sentencing guidelines conform to the spirit of Aristotle’s definition of justice.
29. The transcendental natural law perspective is morally absolutist.
30. Natural law is always considered God-given.