WorksheetsPost-test in Criminal Justice System
Total questions: 100
Worksheet time: 50mins
Which of the following is NOT included in the components of criminal justice system of the United States?
Law enforcement
Prosecution
Corrections
Courts
This criminal justice model is based on the idea that the most important function of the CJS is the protection of the public and the repression of criminal conduct.
Crime prevention
Law and order
Crime control
Due process
According to this criminal justice model, the rights of an individual must be co-equal with the concern for public safety.
Crime prevention
Law and order
Crime control
Due process
This concerns to the obligations of the community to individuals, and requires fair disbursement of common advantages and sharing of common burden.
Prosecution
Equality
Justice
Trial
This function of the law enforcement is being done through elimination of factors influencing the occurrence of crimes, good community relations, educating the citizens about their role, introduction of delinquency prevention programs, good parenting and others.
Maintenance of law and order
Reduction of crime
Crime prevention
Crime control
This principal character of the criminal justice process links all components of the CJS.
Offender
Witness
Victim
Crime
The frontline defender of democracy in the CJS.
Prosecution
Correction
Police
Court
It consists the ordering of human relations in accordance with general principles impartially applied.
Privilege
System
Justice
Right
He is responsible in evaluating the evidence the police have gathered and deciding whether it is sufficient to warrant the filing of charge(s) against the alleged violator.
Investigator
Prosecutor
Judge
Jury
He is an arbitrator in court who ensues that the defense and the prosecution adhere to the legal requirements of introducing evidences.
Clerk of court
Sheriff
Judge
Jury
This is a governmental body that is charged with the responsibility of administering justice.
Law enforcement
Prosecution
Correction
Court
Any person directly vested with jurisdiction, whether as an individual or as a member of some court, Government Corporation, board or commission.
Agent of person in authority
Government employee
Government officer
Person in authority
An act or omission of one party in violation of the legal of the other for which the latter suffers damage and prejudice and the existence of which affords a party to a right of judicial interference or intervention on his behalf.
Cause of action
Criminal action
Plan of action
Legal action
This document is required by the Prosecutor's Office before it can entertain a complaint on a case covered by the Barangay Court.
Certificate of Non-Settlement
Certificate of Non-arbitration
Certificate to file action
Complaint affidavit
It refers to the study of the various agency of our government in charged of processing law violators to ensure the protection of the society and maintenance of peace and order.
Criminology
Victimlogy
Criminal Justice
Sociology
Refers to the person who is being implicated to the commission of a crime and subject of an investigation.
Convict
Accused
Respondent
Suspect
Is the machinery of the state which enforces the rules of conduct necessary to protect life and property and to maintain peace and order?
Criminal Justice System
Criminal law
Criminology
Criminal jurisprudence
It is that degree of proof requires in criminal case which would convince a reasonable mind based on moral certainty but which nevertheless does not preclude the possibility of error.
Preponderance of evidence
Clear and convincing evidence
Substantive evidence
Proof beyond reasonable doubt
In the Philippine Criminal Justice System ______________ is the one that is primarily responsible for securing the rights of the state over an accused person for he directs the proceeding and he institute an offense on behalf of the State.
Law enforcement
Court
Prosecution
Correction
The PNP is the law enforcement agency of the country which is under the ________?
Department of Justice
NAPOLCOM
Department of Interior and Local Gov't
Department of Social welfare and Dev't
A person who is under custodial investigation is basically protected by a number of rights mandated under the constitution and this was even expounded in the legislative statute known as_______?
Miranda Doctrine
Bill of Rights
R.A. 7438
R.A. 6975
If Crime control model should emphasize on "efficiency and productivity, the due process model should emphasize on ____?
Resourcefulness
Reliability
Readiness
Responsibility
Organized in 1712 for the purpose of carrying the regulations of the Department of State. This was armed and considered as the mounted police who later discharged the duties of a port, harbor and river police.
Carabineros de Seguridad Publica
Guardrilleros
Guardia Civil
Barangay Chieftains
On January 9, 1901, the Metropolitan Police Force of Manila was organized pursuant to:
Act No 70
Act 175
Act 225
E.O. 389
City and Municipal is the division of our correctional institution which primarily in charge of those detention prisoners, awaiting for final judgment of their trial and serving short sentences and under the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology. While it is true that even the Provincials Jails like the City and Municipal Jails are under the DILG, it is subject to the control and supervision of the __________?
Bureau of Jail Management and Penology
Department of Justice
Bureau of Correction
Provincial government
It created the POLCOM (Police Commission) as a supervisory agency to oversee the training and professionalization of the local police under the Officer of the President. Otherwise known as the Police Professionalization act of 1966, dated September 8, 1966. It was later renamed as the National Police Commission (NAPOLCOM).
R.A. 4864
P.D. 765
E.O. 1012
E.O. 1040
It is otherwise known as the Department of Interior and Local Government Act of 1990, enacted on December 13, 1990. Established the PNP, BFP, BJMP and the PPSC.
R.A.6975
R.A. 8551
Act No. 181
R.A. 157
It shall a community and service oriented agency responsible for the maintenance of peace and order and public safety. It is an organization which is national in scope and civilian in character.
PNP
NBI
All law enforcement agencies
PNPA
It is the process of reducing if not eliminates the existence of a cause from initially occurring, thus, lessen the police work as suppressing the spread of criminality.
Crime Prevention
Criminal apprehension
Crime control
Law enforcement
A law enforcement agency patterned after the Federal Bureau of Investigation under the Department of Justice headed by a Director.
NBI
PNP
NAPOLCOM
PNPA
It is the unit of the police force which serves as the backbone of the organization and to which majority of its personnel should be assigned for it is in this unit that all the primary functions of the police force are carried on.
Patrol Unit
Intelligence Unit
Criminal Investigation Unit
Arrest and warrant unit
What is that term which refers to the wise use of one's own judgment in a given situation without referring to your superior due to the eminence of the situation?
Police resourcefulness
Police integrity
Police discretion
Police prudence
It refers to the art or science of identifying law violators, locating and tracing them in order to affect their arrest and gather evidence to prove their guilt in court.
Crime prevention
Crime control
Criminal investigation
Intelligence work
It is the office of the government which provides for prosecutorial services in the country.
National capital region
Public Attorney's Office
National Prosecution Office
Department of Interior and Local Government
Sworn statement, subscribed by Offended party, any peace officer of public officer in charge of enforcement of the law violated filed either to the court or to the office of the prosecutor.
Complaint
Pleadings
Information
Affidavit
Is an inquiry or proceeding to determine whether there is sufficient ground to engender a well-founded belief that a crime has been committed and the respondent is probably guilty thereof, and should be held for trial.
Preliminary investigation
Inquest proceeding
Prejudicial question
custodial investigation
Preliminary investigation is conducted on cases punishable by:
At least four (4) years, two (2) months and one (1) day.
More than four years, two months and one day
Less than four years, two months and one day
Six years, one day and above
Is the taking of a person into custody in order that he may be bound to answer for the commission of an offense.
Arrest
Warrant
Jurisdiction
Seizure
It refers to the ways and means of trapping and capturing the law breakers in the execution of their criminal plan.
Instigation
Investigation
Entrapment
Entertainment
In a criminal case, the People of the Philippines is the ____?
Plaintiff
Offended party
Defendant
Respondent
During trial of a criminal case, it is the prosecutor who directs the prosecution of the offense and he/she did it on the behalf of the state. Once a case is elevated to the higher court such as Court of Appeals, who represents the State in the prosecution of the offense?
Chief State Prosecutor
National or provincial prosecutor
Solicitor General
Judge
It refers to the questioning initiated by law enforcement officer after a person has been taken into custody.
Custodial investigation
Inquest
Interview
Interrogation
In cases committed by Public officer with salary grade 27 and above in violation of Act 3019, R.A. 1379 or Art. 210 to 212 of the Revised Penal Code a complaint should first be filed to the office of ______for the conduct of the required preliminary investigation.
Ombudsman
Judges of Municipal trial court
Office of the Solicitor General
National and City State Prosecutor
In flagrante delicto means ______?
Caught in the act
Caught after commission
Instigation
Entrapment
Courts in the Philippines are cloth with the power or try cases submitted to for adjudication. What term is use in referring to the authority or power to hear and decided cases.
Jurisdiction
Jurisprudence
Venue
Territory
It is the authority of the court to try/hear cases for the first time to the exclusion of other courts.
Original jurisdiction
Exclusive jurisdiction
Appellate jurisdiction
Concurrent jurisdiction
It is the formal reading of the charges against a person accused of a crime and latter asking him whether he pleads guilty or not to the crime charged.
Arraignment
Plea
Preliminary investigation
Promulgation of judgment
This is the primary objective of the police:
Law enforcement
Crime prevention
Criminal apprehension
Public safety
It is the most common way by which the police discovers or it informed that a crime has been committed:
When the witness voluntarily reports the crime.
When the police discovers the crime
When the victim reports the crime
When the suspect surrenders
This law renamed the Bureau of Investigation into National Bureau of Investigation:
R.A. 157
R.A. 175
E.O. 292
E.O. 94
When arrest may be made?
At any time of the day and night
At day time
At night time
From sun dust till dawn
Under what circumstances arrest can be made even without a warrant?
When the person to be arrested is an escapees
When the crime was in fact been committed and there is personal knowledge based on probable cause that the person to be arrest has committed it.
When the crime was committed in the presence of the arresting officer.
Arrest of a person under Release on Recognizance.
All of these
Refers to the counsel provided by the government to assist destitute litigant?
Counsel de officio
Public Attorney's Office
Counsel de parte
National Prosecution service
It is a process directed to a person requiring him to attend and to testify or to bring with him any books or documents under his control at the trial of an action.
Subpoena
Subpoena ad testificandum
Subpoena duces tecum
Warrant of arrest
One of the goals of criminal investigation is:
To determine is a crime has been committed
To discourage people from violating the law
To prove that the police are doing their job
To arrest persons suspected of committing a crime
This attached agency of the DOJ is tasked to provide free legal assistance to poor members of society:
National Bureau of Investigation
National Prosecution Service
Board of Pardons and Parole
Public Attorney's Office
This is the power to apply the law to contests or disputes concerning legally recognized rights or duties between the state and private persons, or between individual litigants in cases properly brought before the judicial tribunal.
Judicial Power
Judicial Review
Court
Court of Justice
This is the process or method whereby accusations are brought before the court of justice to determine the innocence or guilt of the accused.
Prosecutor
Prosecution
Trial
Preliminary Investigation
The settlement of a dispute by a person/s chosen to hear both sides and to come to a decision.
Mediation
Arbitration
Settlement
Agreement
One who prosecutes another for a crime in the name of the government?
Public Prosecutor
Private Prosecutor
Prosecution
Ombudsman
The number of justices of the Supreme Court.
20
15
25
30
This court was created under RA 1125, as amended, which has exclusive appellate jurisdiction to review on appeal decisions of the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue involving internal revenue taxes and decisions of the Commissioner of Customs involving customs duties.
Court of Justice
Sandiganbayan
Court of Appeals
Court of Tax Appeals
This court has jurisdiction over crimes committed by high-ranking public officials (with salary grade of 27 above), which can only be committed because of their position.
Court of Justice
Sandiganbayan
Court of Appeals
Court of Tax Appeals
It a writ order of the court bearing its seal and the signature of the judge directing the jail or prison authorities to receive the convicted offender for service of sentence.
Commitment Order
Warrant of arrest
Mittimus
Habeas corpus
Is that branch of the criminal justice system charged with the custody, supervision and rehabilitation of a convicted offender?
Penology
Correction
Probation
Criminology
A Jail is a place for the temporary confinement for persons awaiting court action as well as convicted persons serving short sentence. It was derived from what Spanish word?
Jaula
Gaol
Caula
Hawla
Executive clemencies are acts of grace exercise by the president. Which of the following is NOT one of them?
Pardon
Commutation of Sentence and reprieve
Amnesty
Parole
Prison is a place for confinement of convicted prisoners. What classification of prisoners is sentenced to serve a prison term of one day to three (3) years or whose fine is less than 6,000 but more than 200 or both?
National or insular prisoner
City prisoner
Provincial prisoner
Municipal prisoner
Prisons are institution for confinement of convicted offenders sentenced to more than three (3) years of imprisonment. IT is derived from the Greco-Roman word _____?
Presinto
Precindio
Presidio
Precinto
There are how many members the composed the Lupon?
3 members'
5 to 10 members
10 to 20 members
5 members
It is granted to convicted offenders who have served a portion of their service granted by the Board of Pardons and Parole.
Pardon
Amnesty
Probation
Parole
They serve as the conciliation panel consisting of three (3) members.
Lupon tagapagkasundo
Pangkat tagapagkasundo
Lupon Tagapamayapa
Pangkat tagapamayapa
It is a security facility, usually operated by the police stations, for the temporary detention of persons held for investigation or awaiting preliminary investigation before the prosecutor.
Lock-up jail
Workhouses, jail farms or camp
Ordinary jail
Prison
It is a form of motivation granted by the Director of Prisons whereby a number of days are deducted from the length of years that a prisoner have been sentenced to serve for his good conduct.
Commutation of sentence
Good conduct time allowance
Parole
Reprieve
Correctional institutions in the country is divided into National and local institution. What Department of the Executive Office is the one in charge of the National Penitentiary?
Bureau of Jail Management and Penology
Department of Justice
Department of Interior and Local Government
Bureau of Correction
It is the suffering that is inflicted by the state for the transgression of the law.
Penalty
Exemplarity
Self-defense
Punishment
City and Municipal is the division of our correctional institution which primarily in charge of those detention prisoners, awaiting for final judgment of their trial and serving short sentences and under the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology. While it is true that even the Provincials Jails like the City and Municipal Jails are under the DILG, it is subject to the control and supervision of the __________?
Bureau of Jail Management and Penology
Department of Justice
Bureau of Correction
Provincial government
This is the process wherein the inmate, after serving his sentence, is released to be able to mingle with the community.
Reintegration
Realization
Rehabilitation
Reincarnation
It refers to the examination of an individual's person, house, papers or effects, or other buildings and premises to discover contraband or some evidence of guilt to be used in the prosecution of a criminal action:
Search
Raid
Search and seizure
Entrapment
This court was established by virtue of Presidential Decree 1083:
Court of Tax Appeals
Sandiganbayan
Shari'ah Court
Family Court
This is the law that reorganized the Judiciary:
R.A. 229
BP 129
E.O. 129
P.D. 29
It is the study of crimes, their classification and causes, and the effort of the society to prevent and repress them.
Criminology
Victimlogy
Criminal Justice
Sociology
It refers to the study of the various agency of our government in charge of processing law violators to ensure the protection of the society and maintenance of peace and order.
Criminology
Victimlogy
Criminal Justice
Sociology
It is that principle of criminal law which states that --- There is no crime where there is no law punishing it.
Actus me invitus factus non est meus actus
Dura lex sed lex
Nullum crimen nula poena sine lege
Ignorantia legis neminem excusat
The Philippine Criminal Justice system is composed of five pillars. Which of the following is NOT included among the pillars of the U.S. Criminal Justice System?
Law enforcement agency
Prosecution
Community
Correctional institutions
Refers to the person who is being implicated to the commission of a crime and subject of an investigation.
Convict
Accused
Respondent
Suspect
It the principle in the application of the criminal law which states that any person accused of a crime shall be presumed innocent unless proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt. In case of doubt between the evidence of guilt and the presumption of innocence, the case shall be resolve in favor of the presumption of innocence.
Burden of proof
Quantum of Proof
Equipoise rule
Hornbook doctrine
A person is considered a criminal at the time he committed a crime. This definition of a criminal is under what view?
Criminological sense
Criminal justices
Legal sense
Sociological sense
It is the criminal justice model which looks at individual person as naturally good and assumes that every person is presumed innocent until proven guilty. In this model, the purpose of penalty is for reformation and rehabilitation and it is geared towards letting some guilty person escape imprisonment than to convict an innocent person.
Crime control model
Due process model
Adversarial
Inquisitorial
Mr. X saw Mr. Benny leaving the house of Maria the night before Maria's body was found dead. Through the testimony of Mr. X and corroborated by other evidence a complaint was filed to the office of the prosecutor. At this stage of the justice system. Mr. Benny is considered ______?
Suspect
Respondent
Accused
Convict
It is a word which can be described by the principle of giving what is due to others and the rule of equality in the application of the law.
Criminal Justice
Justice
Crime control
Dues process of law.
Is the machinery of the state which enforces the rules of conduct necessary to protect life and property and to maintain peace and order?
Criminal Justice System
Criminal law
Criminology
Criminal jurisprudence
It is that degree of proof requires in criminal case which would convince a reasonable mind based on moral certainty but which nevertheless does not preclude the possibility of error.
Preponderance of evidence
Clear and convincing evidence
Substantive evidence
Proof beyond reasonable doubt
It refers to the study of the agencies of social control that handle criminal offenders.
Criminology
Criminal justice
Criminal jurisprudence
Criminal juris
In the Philippine Criminal Justice System ______________ is the one that is primarily responsible for securing the rights of the state over an accused person for he directs the proceeding and he institute an offense on behalf of the State.
Law enforcement
Court
Prosecution
Correction
The PNP is the law enforcement agency of the country which is under the ________?
Department of Justice
NAPOLCOM
Department of Interior and Local Gov't
Department of Social welfare and Dev't
This is the legal process by which a person accused of a crime is brought before a court to answer the charges against them.
Trial
Arraignment
Sentencing
Investigation
Which of the following is a legal document that formally accuses someone of a crime?
Subpoena
Indictment
Warrant
Affidavit
In the context of criminal law, what is the term for the act of formally charging someone with a crime?
Detention
Arrest
Conviction
Prosecution
This is the legal principle that ensures a person cannot be tried twice for the same offense.
Double jeopardy
Habeas corpus
Due process
Ex post facto
