Chapter 1: Making Sense of CJ

Question 1

Crime is often unpredictable & not easily controlled

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Common law is not static and changes over time

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Criminal law is crimes against____

Answer 3

the state

Question 4

Civil law is_____

Answer 4

harm done to the individual

Question 5

The Constitution is the______

Answer 5

highest law of the land

Question 6

Each of 50 states has____

Answer 6

its own unique constitution

Question 7

Procedural law is_____

Answer 7

law that prescribes in detail the methods or procedures to be used in determining & enforcing the rights and the duties of persons toward each other under substantive law

Question 8

Administration of justice focus is____

Answer 8

how to best organize the cj system to be most effective and efficient in the performance of its duties

Question 9

A political system is_____

Answer 9

any persistent pattern of human relationships that involves, to a significant extent, control, influence, power or authority

Question 10

What are the 3 basic components of the CJ system?

Answer 10

THE CCC! Cops, Courts and Corrections. AKA: Law Enforcement, Judicial System and Corrections

Question 11

What poll asked, ‘What is the most important problem facing this country?”

Answer 11

The 1994 Gallup Poll