Final Test Bank Answers Chapter 3 Criminal Law

Chapter 3: Criminal Law

Test Bank

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 1

1) Written on an ancient stone tablet, this collection of over 250 laws covered a wide range of issues.

a. Code of Justinian

b. Magna Carta

c. Ten Commandments

d. Code of Hummurabi

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 2

2) Laws must be _____.

a. Published in the criminal code

b. Enacted by the legislature

c. Enforced in a fair and even handed manner by the authorities

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 3

3) This major English document contributed to U.S. law.

a. Magna Carta

b. Assize of Clarendon

c. Constitution

d. Code of Hammurabi

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 4

4) This is sometimes called case law, judiciary law, or unwritten law.

a. Statutory law

b. Common law

c. Constitutional law

d. Tort law

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 5

5) This type of law is enacted by legislatures.

a. Statutory law

b. Written law

c. Common law

d. precedent

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 6

6) In legal terminology, this is the state of a child who has not yet reached the specified age to be considered an adult.

a. Delinquency

b. Infancy

c. Minority

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 7

7) Common law is based on this.

a. Precedent

b. Discretion

c. Penal code

d. The Magna Carta

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 8

8) Which issue guides precedent?

a. Predictability

b. Efficiency

c. Reliability

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 9

9) What is the legal principle in which courts are bound by the decisions of previous courts called?

a. Lex talionis

b. habeas corpus

c. Nolo contendere

d. Stare decisis

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 10

10) What are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution called?

a. First Ten Amendments

b. 10 Commandments

c. Bill of Rights

d. Code of Hammurabi

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 11

11) This writ is issued to bring a party before the court.

a. warrant

b. Stare decisis

c. Lex talionis

d. Habeas corpus

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 12

12) According to this Amendment, "No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise, infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury..."

a. Sixth

b. Fifth

c. Eighth

d. Fourth

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 13

13) Which is one of the three criteria used to determine what behaviors are made criminal?

a. the effects of the law

b. the existence of other means to protect society from undesirable behavior

c. The enforceability of the law

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 14

14) This type of law covers personal wrongs and damage and includes libel, slander, assault, trespass, and negligence.

a. Tort law

b. Substantive law

c. Civil law

d. Criminal law

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 15

15) This legal principle states that a person cannot be tried twice for the same offense.

a. Double jeopardy

b. Lex talionis

c. Habeas corpus

d. Double standar

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 16

16) This type of law sets forth what behaviors are defined as crime.

a. Procedural

b. Tort

c. Substantive

d. Civil

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 17

17) This type of law prescribes the methods for the enforcement and use of the law.

a. Substantive

b. Criminal

c. Civil

d. Procedural

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 18

18) This type of law comes from judicial decisions and requires judges to consider how previous cases dealt with similar issues.

a. Case law

b. Criminal law

c. Tort law

d. Civil law

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 19

19) This type of offense includes murder, rape, assault, larceny, and arson.

a. misdemeanor

b. Inchoate offense

c. Felony

d. conspiracy

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 20

20) Usually the maximum incarceration for this type of offense is up to one year in jail.

a. Inchoate offense

b. felony

c. Misdemeanor

d. Civil crime

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 21

21) An example of this type of offense is conspiracy.

a. Misdemeanor

b. Inchoate offense

c. Sensational crime

d. Terrorism

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 22

22) Actus reus, mens rea, and concurrence constitute this.

a. Corpus delicti

b. An inchoate offense

c. “guilty deed”

d. Stare decisis

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 23

23) What does mens rea mean?

a. Not guilty

b. An eye for an eye

c. Guilty mind

d. Guilty deed

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 24

24) This defense attempts to give physical or psychological reasons that a defendant cannot comprehend his or her criminal actions, their harm(s), or their punishment.

a. Insanity defense

b. Actus reus

c. Infancy

d. alibi

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 25

25) This type of offense tends to involve offenses in which the public's welfare is at issue.

a. Civil offense

b. Status offense

c. Strict liability

d. Inchoate offense

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 26

26) Insanity is a legal term, not a medical term.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 27

27) The Magna Carta contributed little to U.S. law.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 28

28) Common law and statutory law are the same thing.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 29

29) The Supreme Court created a new test for insanity in Durham v. United States.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 30

30) The excuse of age is called "juvenile exclusion."

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 31

31) New laws can abridge rights given in the Constitution.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 32

32) The double jeopardy defense is based on common law and the Fifth Amendment.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 33

33) The early North American colonies rejected the principles of English common law that called for cases to be decided on precedent.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 34

34) The Bill of Rights is not especially important to the criminal law.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 35

35) There is a fairly consistent pattern of laws across the United States.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 3 – Question 36

36) The substantive law is concerned with how criminal justice officials enforce the law.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 37

37) Law is derived from a single source.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 38

38) The foundation for the criminal justice system is the civil law.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 39

39) The rule of law is an important differentiating feature between democratic societies and authoritarian ones.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 3 - Question 40

40) There are no exceptions to the requirement of the presence of both mens rea and actus reus to constitute an offense.

a. True

b. False