NOCTI Review Questions and Answers
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Felony ✔✔Crime punishable by by death or imprisonment
6th Amendment ✔✔Speedy trial (courts and trials)
Reasonable Suspicion ✔✔Gives the officer the right to frisk the susp
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NOCTI Review Questions and Answers
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Felony ✔✔Crime punishable by by death or imprisonment
6th Amendment ✔✔Speedy trial (courts and trials)
Reasonable Suspicion ✔✔Gives the officer the right to frisk the suspect for a weapon
Substantial Capacity Test ✔✔1. In the substantial capacity test, defendants have to lack
substantial, not complete, mental capacity.
2. The substantial capacity test emphasizes both of the qualities in insanity that affect
culpability—reason and will.
3. The MPC's definition of mental disease or defect excludes psychopathic personalities, habitual
criminals, and antisocial personalities from the insanity defense
Formen Vs. Georgia ✔✔Deals with he 8th amendment (cruel and unusual punishment) The court
said it was cruel and unusual punishment to sentence them to death.
Toxicology ✔✔Checking for poison or overdosing
Latent Fingerprinting ✔✔Uses carbon to lift the fingerprint
4th Amendment ✔✔Search and seizure
5th Amendment ✔✔Self incrimination
6th Amendment ✔✔Right to a speedy trial
8th Amendment ✔✔Cruel and unusual punishment
14th Amendment ✔✔No matter your citizenship status you have the same rights as everyone
else.
General Deterrence ✔✔To keep the public from committing a crime, future criminal behavior
Edward Sutherland ✔✔Differential Association Theory
Sherlock Holmes ✔✔Deductive Reasoning
Immanuel Kant ✔✔Utilitarianism
Plain View Doctrine ✔✔Whatever a police officer happens to see that is within view when the
officer has the right to be there
UCR (Uniform Crime report) ✔✔Given my FBI Crime list
Locard's Principal of exchange ✔✔Taking of something and leaving something behind (objects)
Drowning ✔✔Isn't considered a manner of death
Actus Reus ✔✔A guilty (prohibited) act.
Corpus Delecti ✔✔The body of circumstances that must exist for a criminal act to have
occurred. (Body of the crime)
M''Naghten rule ✔✔A common law test of criminal responsibility derived from M''Naghten''s
Case in 1843 that relies on the defendant''s inability to distinguish right from wrong.
Mens Rea ✔✔Mental state, or intent. A wrongful mental state is as necessary as a wrongful act
to establish criminal liability.
Stare Decisis ✔✔A common law doctrine under which judges are obligated to follow the
precedents established under prior decisions.
Bill of Rights ✔✔The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
Case Law ✔✔The rules of law announced in court decisions. Case law includes the aggregate of
reported cases that interpret judicial precedents, statutes, regulations, and constitutional
provisions.
Common Law ✔✔The body of law developed from custom or judicial decisions in English and
U.S. courts and not attributable to a legislature.
Due Process Clause ✔✔The provisions of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the
Constitution that guarantee that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without
due process of law. Similar clauses are found in most state constitutions. (Packer)
Duress ✔✔Unlawful pressure brought to bear on a person, causing the person to perform an act
that he or she would not otherwise perform.
Inchoate Crime ✔✔Conduct deemed criminal without actual harm being done, provided that the
harm that would have occurred is one the law tries to prevent.
Model Penal Code ✔✔A statutory text created by the American Law Institute that sets forth
general principles of criminal responsibility and defines specific offenses. States have adopted
many aspects of the Model Penal Code, which is not itself a law, into their criminal codes.
Statutory Rape ✔✔A strict liability crime in which an adult engages in a sexual act with a minor.
The difference in age between the two participants automatically criminalizes the behavior of the
older participant, regardless of whether the younger one consented.
Mala in Se ✔✔A term that refers to the acts that society considers inherently evil, such as
murder and rape, and that violate the basic principles of Judeo-Christian morality.
Dark Figure of Crime ✔✔Crime that goes unreported
Criminal Control Model ✔✔The perspective that views the repression of criminal conduct as the
most important function to be preformed by the criminal justice system, through speed,
efficiency, and finality in criminal justice processing (Packer)
Consensus Model ✔✔A criminal justice perspective that assumes that the systems components
work together harmoniously to achieve the social product we call justice
Conflict Model ✔✔A criminal justice perspective that assumes that the system's compenents
function primarily to serve their own interests
3 Parts of CJ System ✔✔Law Enforcement, Courts, Corrections
Probation ✔✔A criminal sentence that involves no jail or prison time but requires the criminal to
follow certain rules for a fixed amount of time.
Parole ✔✔A phase of the criminal justice system in which an offender completes the end of a
prison sentence under supervision in the community
NIBRS (National Incident Based Reporting System) ✔✔A form of crime data collection created
by the FBI requiring local police agencies to provide at least a brief account of each incident and
arrest within 22 crime patterns.,
Pennsylvania System ✔✔An early system of U.S. penology in which inmates were kept in
solitary cells so that they could study religious writings, reflect on their misdeeds, & perform
handicraft work
Prosecutor/State ✔✔Carries the Burden of Proof
Mala Prohibita ✔✔Acts considered wrong only because there is a law against them (drugs,
prostitution, gambling)
9 ✔✔Justices on Supreme Court
Specific Deterrence ✔✔Punishment inflicted on criminals to discourage them from committing
future crimes
Restorative Justice ✔✔Laws that are concerned with restoring community after an offense
Truth-in-Sentencing Laws ✔✔A sentencing scheme requiring that offenders serve at least 85%
of their original sentence before being eligible for parole or other forms of early release.
Consensus View of Crime ✔✔The majority of citizen's in society share common ideals and work
toward a common good. Crimes are acts that are outlawed because they conflict with the rules of
the majority and are harmful to society.
Conflict View of Crime ✔✔The law is controlled by the rich and powerful who shape its content
to ensure their continued economic domination of society. The criminal justice system is an
instrument of social and economic repression.
Quakers of Pennsylvania ✔✔Corrections movement in Criminal Justice
Cesare Lambroso ✔✔Physical attributes of stigmata
Emile Durkheim ✔✔Anomie theory (Culture goal)
Cesar Beccaria ✔✔Punishment not be severe but swift and certain
Edwin Sutherland ✔✔Differential Association theory
Shaw and McKay ✔✔Social disorganization theory
Cesar Becarria ✔✔Crime and Punishment (17oos)
Teleological Ethical System ✔✔Result or consequences of an act to determine the act's goodness
or ethicalness
Deonatological Ethical System ✔✔Doesn't care what the result or consequences but about the
act itself and motive behind it
Noble Cause ✔✔Planting evidence on a known drug dealer
Utalitarianism ✔✔John Mills- Greater Good
Ethnocentrism ✔✔Culture is better than any other
Formalism ✔✔Immanuel Kant Doing your duty (Ethical)
Slippery Slope ✔✔Course of action that seems to lead inevitably from one action or result to
another with unintended consequences. Take small bribes leading to larger ones.
Mapp Vs. Ohio ✔✔Applied the exclusionary Rule to the states
Miranda Vs. Arizona ✔✔Established the Miranda warnings
Terry Vs. Ohio ✔✔Created the Stop & Frisk (with reasonable suspicion)
Tennessee Vs. Garner ✔✔1. Fleeing felon
2. Lethal Force
Irresistible Impulse Test ✔✔Cannot blame or deter people who because of a mental disease or
defect lose their self-control and can't bring their actions into line with what the law requires.
Specific intent ✔✔Meaning to bring about certain result
Strict liability ✔✔Offender is guilty for the act alone; no mental state is required
General Intent ✔✔When offender wants to take certian action but does not desire specific result
Assault ✔✔Attempts or causes bodily harm to another with or without a deadly weapon
Burglary ✔✔Breaking into and entering a structure with the intent to commit a felony once
inside
Robbery ✔✔Taking property by force or threat of force
Insanity Defense ✔✔May have delusion that someone is trying to harm them. M'naghten test
used to judge this
Terry stop ✔✔Brief encounter between police and citizens to confirm or dispel the reasonable
suspicion that criminal activity is afoot
Exclusionary rule ✔✔Evidence obtained in illegal manner, can be of no use in court if violates
rights
Curtilage ✔✔Area immediately surrounding a dwelling, 4th amendment rights within curtilage
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