Question 1

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Torts are: 

  

punished by incarceration

 

  

private wrongs

 

  

criminal wrongs

 

  

common law felonies

 

 

IncorrectQuestion 2

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What gives states broad power to pass laws that promote the public health, safety, and welfare?

  

police power

 

  

due process

 

  

common law

 

  

ex post facto clause

 

 

Question 3

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Which branch of government makes laws?

  

executive

 

  

judicial

 

  

administrative

 

  

legislative

 

 

IncorrectQuestion 4

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_____________________________ is the power to create and enforce laws:

  

Jurisdiction

 

  

Venue

 

  

Federalism

 

  

Constitutionalism

 

 

IncorrectQuestion 5

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When a law defines an offense so broadly that it ends up criminalizing a substantial amount of protected lawful behavior, the courts will find the law:

  

void for overbreadth

 

  

void for vagueness

 

  

void for arbitrariness

 

  

void for ambiguity

 

 

Question 6

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Courts will apply __________________ to classifications in criminal codes based on race.

  

rational basis

 

  

intermediate scrutiny

 

  

strict scrutiny

 

  

judicial discretion

 

 

IncorrectQuestion 7

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All of the following are examples of conduct that are both criminal and immoral except:

  

murder

 

  

robbery

 

  

public intoxication

 

  

fraud

 

 

Question 8

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Marcie committed a crime for which she faces over a year in prison. What type of crime did Marcie commit?

  

violation (infraction)

 

  

misdemeanor

 

  

felony

 

  

tort

 

 

IncorrectQuestion 9

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______________________________________ requires the state to demonstrate a justification to deprive a person of life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness.

  

Substantive due process

 

  

Procedural due process

 

  

Equal protection

 

  

Double jeopardy

 

 

IncorrectQuestion 10

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Jason drove his car late at night from a parking lot, dropped off a female passenger at an apartment complex, parked on the street, and used a cell phone. When approached by police, he gave them multiple addresses and denied knowing the female’s name. He was convicted of violating the city’s “suspicious person ordinance,” which made it a crime to be a “person who wanders about the streets or other public ways or who is found at late or unusual hours in the night without any visible or lawful business and who does not give satisfactory account of himself." Jason’s conviction will be overturned based on which doctrine?

  

habeas doctrine

 

  

felony-failure doctrine

 

  

void-for-vagueness doctrine

 

  

ex-post-facto doctrine

 

 

IncorrectQuestion 11

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_____________________ is the transfer of a person from one jurisdiction to a requesting jurisdiction so that person can face criminal charges in the requesting jurisdiction.

  

Rendition

 

  

Extradition

 

  

Assimilation

 

  

Marshalling

 

 

IncorrectQuestion 12

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States can punish people criminally for being addicted to drugs or alcohol.

  

True

 

  

False

 

 

Question 13

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The equal protection clause requires that the government treat everyone exactly alike.

  

True

 

  

False

 

 

Question 14

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Name two sources of criminal law. [one point each]

Your Answer:

1. common law

2. civil law