When li is successfully implemented in society there is no need to call upon fa.
a. True
b. False
The German and French theft codes:
a. show that civil law countries believe that codes provide specific solutions to
particular problems.
b. supply general principles from which logical deduction provides a resolution in each
case.
c. are limited in scope due to restrictions on how much can be written for any one
offense.
d. exemplify the high degree of specificity typically found in procedural law from civil
legal tradition countries.
Which of the following is an example in many states of a ‘strict liability” crime?
a. A person over age 14 commits shoplifting
b. A father uses excessive force to discipline his child
c. A death occurs, unintentionally, while an offender is committing a felony
d. While obeying the speed limit along a residential road, a driver hits and seriously
injures a young girl who runs into the street
Although the practice is not common, most American jurisdictions allow jurors to
propose questions of trial witnesses.
a. True
b. False
The day fine system is based on a process wherein:
a. the punishment is proportionate to the severity of the crime but equal across
individuals with differing financial resources.
b. all defendants convicted on a particular offense sustain the same fine amounts.
c. only those who commit felonies shall receive a day fine.
d. only those who commit misdemeanors shall receive a day fine.
To the extent that electronic monitoring devices and imprisonment both restrict an
offender’s freedom of movement, they can be said to meet which punishment goal?
a. Retribution
b. Specific deterrence
c. General deterrence
d. Rehabilitation
e. Incapacitation
Most countries following the civil legal tradition do not use the classic jury system as
found in England and the United States. There are, however, some exceptions. Which of
the following civil law countries have occasion to use the classic jury system?
a. Belgium
b. Russia
c. Spain
d. All the above
e. None of the above
In the United States, the primary enforcement of state laws is the responsibility of local
police.
a. True
b. False
Store owner Sugawara has caught Otoki shoplifting. When Sugawara takes Otoki to the
privacy of his office and allows Otoki to avoid further embarrassment by simply
returning the stolen item, we can say that:
a. honne was achieved by Sugawara’s actions.
b. tatemae was achieved by Sugawara’s actions.
c. Otoki was probably a boryokudan.
d. wa was destroyed by Sugawara’s actions.
With which neighboring country does the United States cooperate to form the
Integrated Border Enforcement Team?
a. Panama
b. Mexico
c. Canada
d. Greenland
While vacationing in Germany, you meet a uniformed city police officer. Which police
division is this officer with?
a. Schupo
b. Kripo
c. Bereitschaftspolizei
d. Deutsche Volkspolizei
According to the You Should Know box in Chapter 4, Iran can be grouped with the
religious states and _____ can be grouped with the secular states in terms of how each
applies Islamic law.
a. Indonesia
b. Jordan
c. Saudi Arabia
d. Turkey
Studying legal systems in other countries is said to have both:
a. provincial and statistical benefits.
b. universal and worldwide benefits.
c. practical and theoretical benefits.
d. provincial and universal benefits.
All states in the United States have set age 18 as the minimum age of criminal
responsibility.
a. True
b. False
Although countries do not duplicate legal systems, it is possible for countries to share
legal traditions.
a. True
b. False
A national survey of businesses found that cyber theft incidents were the least frequent
type of cybercrime, but they were the only incident type likely to be reported to law
enforcement authorities.
a. True
b. False
Each of Mexico’s municipios (i. e., local level government) may have its own police
force, but it must be of the _____ type.
a. preventive
b. judicial
c. investigative
d. volunteer
According to Otterbein’s research, communities most likely to accept alternatives to
capital punishment are those where:
a. government is stable, but fear of crime is high.
b. citizens have stable, mature governments in which crime and fear of crime is not
high.
c. public opinion is against the use of the death penalty.
d. prisons are considered secure enough to make escape from a life sentence extremely
unlikely.
The Twelve Tables were the earliest form of written Roman law.
a. True
b. False
One of the few things about which comparative criminal justice scholars agree is that
there are four legal traditions in the world today.
a. True
b. False
A 2009 German law is considered to be a move toward negotiated pleas and, just like
the negotiated plea process in the United States, negotiations are initiated by the
prosecution or the defense.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following in not a transnational crime as the term is used in your
textbook?
a. Genocide
b. Computer crime
c. Sea piracy
d. Money laundering
Young Simon is being diverted from England’s formal juvenile justice system with a
pre-court order that requires him to stop causing a nuisance. What type of pre-court
order is this?
a. Final warning
b. Acceptable behavior contract
c. Antisocial behavior order
d. Reparation order
International and transnational crimes are distinct from each other. Transnational crime
includes crimes that:
a. span national borders, violating the laws of several countries.
b. take place outside the United States borders.
c. take place within the United States borders but are committed by a foreign citizen.
d. take place outside United States borders and are committed by a United States
citizen.
Flexibility is provided in the Eastern Asia legal tradition through reliance on the strict
interpretation of formal codes.
a. True
b. False
Both common and civil legal traditions seek uniformity of justice. The common
tradition sees it as being best achieved when judges follow decisions in similar cases.
a. True
b. False
During the Fifth and Sixth Centuries, __________ courts administered state law, while
________ courts managed canon law.
a. ecclesiastical / tribal
b. civil / ecclesiastical
c. French / papal
d. Roman / Italian
The U. S. Supreme Court has the authority to tell individual states how to conduct
criminal prosecutions because:
a. violation of state law is also a violation of federal law.
b. the Third Amendment to the U. S. Constitution provides for a defendant’s guarantee
of federal prosecution in state felony prosecutions.
c. the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution made
the Bill of Rights applicable to the individual states.
d. None of the abovethe U. S. Supreme Court cannot tell individual states how to
conduct criminal prosecutions.
Which term refers to deeply rooted and historically conditioned attitudes about things
such as the nature of law and the role of law in society?
a. Legal system
b. Legal tradition
c. Due process
d. Attitudinal jurisprudence
Which two men were responsible for fathering the principle of probation as a sentence
for criminals in both the United States and England respectively?
a. John Augustus and Matthew Hill
b. Matthew Hill and Emile Durkheim
c. John Augustus and Emile Durkheim
d. Matthew Hill and Nicholas Timasheff
All of the following are examples of international crime except:
a. war crimes.
b. computer crimes.
c. crimes against humanity.
d. genocide.