Criminal Courts A Contemporary Perspective 3rd Edition By Hemmens – Test Bank

Chapter 1

Exam Questions

Multiple Choice Questions:

1. What type of courts are experimenting with alternatives to the traditional sanctions of probation, jail, and prison?
2. juvenile courts
3. all criminal courts

*c. specialized courts

1. civil courts

2. Hammurabi’s code governed relationships in society related to what?

*a. sexual behavior, property rights, theft, and acts of violence

1. sexual behavior
2. property rights
3. acts of violence

3. What perspective views law as basically a neutral framework for patching up conflicts between individuals and groups who primarily share the same set of fundamental values?
4. the precedent perspective
5. the Packer perspective
6. the conflict perspective

*d. the consensus perspective

4. According to the conflict perspective of law, laws work for the benefit of _____.

*a. The rich

1. The middle class
2. The poor
3. All citizens

5. Conflict perspective on law derives much from which philosopher?
6. Thomas Aquinas
7. Socrates

*c. Karl Marx

1. Niccolò Machiavelli

6. Which of the following is not one of Reichel’s three irreducible elements of law?
7. Supremacy of fundamental values

*b. Universal application of the fundamental values

1. Holding government to the fundamental values

d. The writing down of fundamental values