Chapter 3 End of Chapter Quiz

. Which is not an issue that guides precedent?

Predictability

Reliability

efficiency

authenticity

. Which is a source of the criminal law?

Popular opinion

Administrative rules

Statues

The declaration of independence

. How are civil law and criminal law similar?

Both try to control the behavior of people

Both can impose sanctions

Both overlap in the types of behavior they address

All of the above

. How are the civil law and criminal law different?

Civil cases are between two individuals; criminal cases concern the defendant and the government.

Criminal law concerns objectionable behaviors; civil cases concern only money.

Criminal law is enforceable; civil law is not.

All of the above

. What does substantive law do?

It specifies how the criminal justice system is allowed to deal with those who break the law.

It specifies the prosecution by the government of a person or people for an act that has been classified as a criminal offense.

It specifies private rights.

It tells us which behaviors have been defined as criminal offenses.

. What does the procedural law do?

It specifies private rights.

It specifies how the criminal justice system is allowed to deal with those who break the law.

It specifies how the civil justice system is allowed to deal with those who break the law.

It specifies what a felony is

. What is a felony?

A civil offense that calls for a minimum term of one year or more in state or federal prison

A minor criminal offense

A violation of procedural law

A criminal offense that calls for a minimum term of one year or more in state or federal prison

. Which is not an inchoate offense?

Attempt

Conspiracy

Solicitation

cogitation

. Put the elements of a criminal offense in order.

concurrence; criminal act; result; criminal intent; attendant circumstances

attendant circumstances; criminal act; criminal intent; concurrence; result

criminal act; criminal intent; concurrence; attendant circumstances; result

result; criminal act; concurrence; attendant circumstances; criminal intent

. Which is not an argument that can be employed in the defense against a criminal indictment?

My client did not do it

My client did it

My client did it but has a good excuse

My client did it but was influenced by outside forces

. U.S. criminal law is a hodgepodge of other societies' attempts to govern conduct through the criminal law.

True

False

. An offense may be categorized as either a felony or misdemeanor depending on the prosecutor's use of discretion.

True

False

. An offender should not have to be successful in completing a crime before the criminal justice system can respond.

True

False

. The criminal intent is also called actus reus.

True

False

. Common law is based largely on the doctrine of lex talionis.

True

False

. Judges never consider previous cases with similar circumstances to see how justice was meted out.

True

False

. The law is derived from no single source.

True

False

. Conflicts between state and federal laws are dealt with by the Constitution's Sanity Clause.

True

False

. Conspiracy to commit a criminal offense is often difficult to prove.

True

False

. An infraction is usually an offense that is not serious enough to warrant curtailing an offender's freedom.

True

False

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