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The evolution of Law and Our Criminal Justice System

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is proactive?

a)

A. seeking to find the cause of crime to recify those problems

b)

B. to arrest someone for a crime

c)

C. To impeach top officials

d)

D. Citizens arrest

2.

Professional model?

a)

A.the primary architect of the reform era and the style of policing.

b)

B.the first detective unit in London.

c)

C.policing during the community era

d)

D.the juvenile court act

3.

Who were the Rattle Watch?

a)

A.a group of night patrolling citizens armed with rattles to call for help

b)

B.group of settlers taking the law into their own hands in the absence of effective policing

c)

C.respectable settlers of average or affluent means who organized to attack and break up the outlaw gangs and restore order

d)

D. a group of 10 tithings

4.

Responding to crime after they have been committed ?

a)

A. bow street

b)

B. vigilante

c)

C. political era

d)

D. reactive

5.

what is reeve?

a)

A. an eye for an eye

b)

B. the tp official of a 100

c)

C. group of 10 things

d)

D. a body of rules for human conduct enforced by imposing penalties for their violations.

6.

Which era were police forces characterized by authority coming from the law?

a)

A. Political Era

b)

B.Profession Model

c)

C.Reform Era

d)

D.Police were never characterized by authority by law.

7.

Regulator?

a)

A. respectable settlers of average of means who joined other as vigilantees to attack and break up outlaws gangs and restore order in the 1760

b)

B. outlaw gangs thta tried to restore peace in the community

c)

C. a body of rulers for human conduct enforced by I'mposing penalties for their violations.

d)

D. a group of people

8.

An order permitting the magistrate to call in the military to quell a riot.

a)

A. spoil system

b)

B. parish constable system

c)

C. hue and cry

d)

D. riot act

9.

Who was the sheriff?

a)

A.settlers taking the law into their own hands

b)

B.someone who was established as the mean of area law enforcement

c)

C.someone seeking the causes of crime and trying to rectify those problems

d)

D.someone responding to crime after it was committed while policing during the reform era.

10.

The top official of a shire to forerunner of county sheriff.

a)

A.sheriff

b)

B. shire-reeve

c)

C. regulator

d)

D. reeve

11.

counties in Enland.

a)

A. lex talionis

b)

B. reeve

c)

C. shires

d)

D. Leges Henrici

12.

What is a spoil sysytem?

a)

A. an outdated system

b)

B. a system still used today

c)

C. a political system where by " friends" of politicians were rewarded with key positions in the place department.

d)

D. receiving rewards for ratting out criminals

13.

What is Tithing?

a)

A.The first ear of policing

b)

B. a group of citizen patrolling at night and armed with rattles to call for help

c)

C.The principle of collective responsibility for maintaining law and order.

d)

D. the second era of policing

14.

Established the principle of collective responsibility maintaining local law and order by organizing families into groups of 10 families.

a)

A.Tithing

b)

B.W Watch and Ward

c)

C.Reactive

d)

D. Tithing System

15.

What is a vigilante?

a)

A. a person who takes the law into his or her own hands

b)

B. a criminal

c)

C. a police officercer

d)

D, a top official

16.

A system of law enforcement that was used to protect citizens 24 hours a day

a)

A. Hue and Cry

b)

B. watch and Ward

c)

C. spoil system

d)

D. reform act