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Hemmens, Criminal Courts, 4e SAGE Publishing, 2020 Chapter 1: Introduction: Law and the Judicial Function Test Bank

Multiple Choice

• Hammurabi’s Code governed relationships in society related to what?
• sexual behavior, property rights, theft, and acts of violence
• sexual behavior
• property rights
• acts of violence

Ans: A

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Code of Hammurabi

Difficulty Level: Medium

• What perspective views law as basically a neutral framework for dealing with conflicts

between individuals and groups who share the same set of fundamental values?

• the precedent perspective
• the Packer perspective
• the conflict perspective
• the consensus perspective

Ans: D

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension Answer Location: Two Opposing Perspectives: Consensus and Conflict

Difficulty Level: Medium

• What perspective considers society to be composed of individuals and groups with

different interests and characterized by conflict and dissention?

• the precedent perspective
• the Packer perspective
• the conflict perspective
• the consensus perspective

Ans: C

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension Answer Location: Two Opposing Perspectives: Consensus and Conflict

Difficulty Level: Medium

• According to the conflict perspective, laws work primarily for the benefit of ______.
• the rich
• the middle class
• the poor
• all citizens

Ans: A 2 / 4

Hemmens, Criminal Courts, 4e SAGE Publishing, 2020 REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge Answer Location: Two Opposing Perspectives: Consensus and Conflict

Difficulty Level: Easy

• Conflict perspective on law derives much from which philosopher?
• Thomas Aquinas
• Socrates
• Karl Marx
• Niccolò Machiavelli

Ans: C

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Conflict Perspective

Difficulty Level: Easy

• Which of the following is not one of Reichel’s three irreducible elements of law?
• supremacy of fundamental values
• universal application of the fundamental values
• holding government to the fundamental values
• the writing down of fundamental values

Ans: B

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Rule of Law

Difficulty Level: Easy

• Which of the following is a set of instructions for how state agents must act within the

criminal justice system?

• civil law
• criminal law
• due process
• the Bill of Rights

Ans: D

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Rule of Law

Difficulty Level: Easy

• Packer’s crime control model focuses on which of the following?
• legal guilt
• factual guilt
• societal guilt
• individual guilt

Ans: B

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Two Models of Criminal Justice

Difficulty Level: Easy

• Packer’s due process model focuses on which of the following? 3 / 4

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• legal guilt
• factual guilt
• societal guilt
• individual guilt

Ans: A

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Two Models of Criminal Justice

Difficulty Level: Easy

• Which of the following is not an important aspect of the crime control model?
• rituals
• efficiency
• finality
• speed

Ans: A

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Two Models of Criminal Justice

Difficulty Level: Easy

• Which metaphor best describes the due process model of the criminal justice

process?

• horse race
• obstacle course
• assembly line
• funeral procession

Ans: B

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Two Models of Criminal Justice

Difficulty Level: Easy

• According to the due process model, fact-finding procedures should be all but which

of the following?

• efficient
• formal
• adversarial
• adjudicative

Ans: A

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Two Models of Criminal Justice

Difficulty Level: Medium

• What case gave the Supreme Court the power to examine a law and determine

whether it is constitutional?

• Marbury v. Madison
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Plessy v. Ferguson
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