Test Bank For Criminal Law 7th Edition By John M. Scheb

Chapter 1: FUNDAMENTALS OF CRIMINAL LAW

True/False:

1. Our legal system regards crimes as offenses not just against individual victims, but against society as a whole.

ANS: T               REF: 7             LO: 5

2. A “tort” is a very serious crime for which one may be incarcerated in a prison for more than one year.

ANS: F               REF: 9             LO: 2

3. A misdemeanor is considered more serious than a felony.

ANS: F               REF: 5             LO: 2

4. In certain instances, a person may be held criminally responsible regardless of intent.

ANS: T               REF: 5             LO: 2

5. In the American legal system, there can be no crime, and no punishment, except as provided by law.

ANS: T               REF: 4             LO: 1

6. American criminal law is derived largely from the English common law.

ANS: T               REF: 10           LO: 4

7. The federal government has adopted the common law of crimes.

ANS: F               REF: 11           LO: 4

8. Appellate courts perform an error correction function, but they do not perform a lawmaking function.

ANS: F                        REF: 14           LO: 7