Chapter 5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Criminal Statistics?

The label given to the numbers of crimes reported to the police and the result of the Crime Survey of England and Wales

An annual statement of all crimes known to the police and other criminal agencies

An annual survey of criminality in the community

An occasional publication giving information about crime and prosecutions

2. What are the PACE codes of practice?

Official guidance on the speed with which police investigations of crime should proceed.

Official guidance on when prosecutions should be brought.

Official guidance to the police about how they should exercise their powers relating to the investigation of crime

Official guidance on how quickly police should walk and drive around the streets.

3. What is an arrest without warrant?

An arrest made where the police know or suspect an offence has been committed and where reasons justifying the arrest are present.

An arrest made by an ununiformed policeman

An arrest made by an ordinary member of the public.

An arrest made without legal justification

4. What is a grant of Bail?

This is the old name for a warning given to an alleged offender by the police.

This is a formal means for releasing a person from custody, pending trial for an alleged criminal offence.

This is the money paid by an alleged offender to secure release from detention

This is a requirement to do community work.

5. Who has the power to prosecute those alleged to have committed a criminal offence?

The police, exclusively

Magistrates

The Crown Prosecution Service, exclusively

The Crown Prosecution Service, and other agencies

6. What is the Full Code Test used by the Crown Prosecution Service?

This is used to test whether the CPS has the all the evidence needed to start a prosecution

This is the test used by the CPS to decide whether it is in the public interest to start a prosecution

This is the test that combines the evidence and public interest tests.

This is the test that requires the CPS to have a better than 50:50 chance of winning a case.

7. What are summary offences?

These are offences dealt with when only a summary of the evidence is available

These are offences to which the defendant pleads guilty

These are offences that can only be heard in a magistrates' court

These are offences that are decided by jury trial

8. What is the role of the Justices' Clerk?

To type letters and make the tea for magistrates

To sit and decide cases

To advise panels of lay justices about their powers

To assist High Court judges

9. What are youth offender panels?

They are parts of a government agency which keeps the youth justice system under review

This is the special name given to Magistrates' Court when they are dealing with youth offenders

They are specially constituted teams of local people who work with youth offending teams to decide programmes of behaviour for young offenders

This is the body that recommends new forms of counseling for parents

10. What is a 'cracked trial'?

A case that should never have been brought to trial

A case where a not guilty plea is changed at the last minute

A case that should have been dealt with in the Crown Court

A case of considerable public interest

11. In sentencing, what is the 'tariff'?

The minimum period of detention for a person sentenced to life imprisonment

The basis for imposing penalty points for traffic offenders

The minimum sentence set by the Home Secretary

A sentence set by the Sentencing Guidelines Council

12. What is the Victims' Charter?

An informal statement of good practice relating to victims and witnesses

A statutory code of practice relating to the treatment of victims

The charter of Victim Support schemes

The right of victims to make a statement in court

13. What is the function of the Criminal Cases Review Commission?

It decides what compensation should be paid to the victims of crime

It inspects the work of those involved in the criminal justice system

It decides whether to release prisoners early

It looks again at cases where there is new evidence or new legal argument

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