Houston Community College CRIJ 1310 Spring 2015 Final Exam
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Please select your answer and write it to the left of the number of that question.
1. What crime occurs when two or more commits bad conduct with purpose to commit or facilitate the commission
of a felony or misdemeanor, and with purpose to prevent or coerce official action.
a. riot b. disorderly conduct c. inciting a riot d. vague
2. What crime occurs when one incites or encourages other persons to create or engage in a riot.
a. riotology b. disorderly conduct c. inciting a riot d. vague
3. What crime occurs when, one , with purpose to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, recklessly
creates risk, engages in fighting, threatening or tumultuous behavior, makes unreasonable noise or offense utterance,
gesture or display, or creates hazardous or physically offensive condition
a. riot b. disorderly conduct c. inciting a riot d. vague
4. Acts that “annoy, disturb, interfere with or obstruct, or are offensive to others” are considered unconstitutionally
___.
a. riotous b. disorderly c. inciteful d. vague
5. A ___ has no visible means of support.
a. vagrant b. bum c. drunkenness d. loiterer
6. What crime occurs when one appears in any public place, under influence of alcohol, etc., to the degree of
endangering themselves or others?
a. vagrancy b. bummery c. drunkenness d. loitering
7. Drug crimes include all but ___.
a. possession b. trafficking c. dispensing d. consumption
8. What crime occurs when one prowls that warrant alarm for safety of persons or property in vicinity?
a. vagrant b. bum c. hobo d. loitering
9. What crime occurs when one installs without consent recording equipment, or installs or uses any device for
hearing or recording, amplifying sounds without consent of persons entitled to privacy.
a. eavesdropping b. perjury c. privacy d. surveillance
10. What crime occurs when a false material statement is made, under oath.
a. bribery b. perjury c. escape d. evading arrest
11. What crime occurs when one offers or agrees to confer or solicits, accepts or agrees to accept
any pecuniary benefit for recipient’s decision, opinion, recommendation, vote or other exercise of discretion as a
public servant, party official or voter.
a. bribery b. perjury c. escape d. evading arrest
12. What crime occurs when one purposely impairs, perverts administration of law by force, violence, physical
interference, breach of official duty, or other unlawful act
a. obstructing justice b. perjury c. escape d. evading arrest
13. What crime occurs when one purposefully creates a substantial risk of bodily injury to public servant or anyone
else, or requires police to use substantial force to effect lawful arrest.
a. obstructing justice b. perjury c. escape d. evading arrest
14. ___ holds that a law is facially invalid if persons of "common intelligence must necessarily guess as at its
meaning and differ as to its application.
a. Overbreath b. Vagueness c. Party liability d. Obstrusiveness
15. __ occurs if a prohibition is expressed in a way that is too unclear for a person to reasonably know whether or
not their conduct falls within the law, then to avoid the risk of legal consequences they often stay far away from
anything that could possibly fit the uncertain wording of the law.
a. Overbreath b. Vagueness c. Party liability d. Obstrusiveness
16. With ___, all accessories are prosecuted as principals.
a. overbreath b. vagueness c. party liability d. obstrusiveness
17. Congress' goal of the ___ Act was to eliminate the ill-affects of organized crime on the nation's economy.
a. Racketeering b. RICO c. Mail and Wire Fraud d. Money Laundering
18. ___ includes any predicate act(s), including: murder, kidnapping, robbery, arson, extortion, obstruction of
justice, mail and wire fraud, etc. that occurred twice in the last 10 years
a. Racketeering b. RICO c. Mail and Wire Fraud d. Money Laundering
19. What crime occurs when one, with the intent to defraud, uses the U.S. mail or private interstate commercial
carrier in fraudulent scheme.
a. Racketeering b. RICO c. Mail and Wire Fraud d. Money Laundering
20. What crime occurs when one becomes involved in a financial transaction with the knowledge that money came
from illegal activities.
a. Racketeering b. RICO c. Mail and Wire Fraud d. Money Laundering
21. ___ makes it illegal to break up transaction to avoid the $10,000 reporting requirement.
a. The Patriot Act b. Anti-Fraud c. Anti-structuring d. RICO Act
22. What crime occurs when one fails to report, tampers with EPA monitoring devices, or fails to pay fees owed to
US.
a. Clean Water Act b. Safe Drinking Water Act c. Clean Air Act d. Anti-Trash Act
23. What crime occurs when one tampers with public water systems or having unlawful levels of contaminants.
a. Clean Water Act b. Safe Drinking Water Act c. Clean Air Act d. Anti-Trash Act
24. What crime occurs when one failures to comply with statutory requirements of reporting.
a. Clean Water Act b. Safe Drinking Water Act c. Clean Air Act d. Anti-Trash Act
25. Texas Penal Code classification of misdemeanors include all but ___.
a. A b. B c. C d. D
26. ___ makes it illegal to break up transaction to avoid $10,000 reporting requirement (specific intent crime;
knowledge of law and intent to break it).
a. Anti-structuring b. Anti-solutioning c. Alter-structuring d. Non-structuring
27. Texas Penal Code classification of felonies include all but ___ felony.
a. 1st degree b. 2nd degree c. state jail d. 4 th degree
28. The ___ Act requires banks to investigate source of foreign funds.
a. Patriot b. Volstead c. Graham d. Sherman
29. An individual adjudged guilty of a Class ___ shall be punished by: (1) a fine not to exceed $4,000;
(2) confinement in jail for a term not to exceed one year; or(3) both such fine and confinement.
a. A misdemeanor b. Class B misdemeanor c. Class c misdemeanor d. State Jail felony
30. An individual adjudged guilty of a ___ shall be punished by: (1) a fine not to exceed $2,000; (2) confinement
in jail for a term not to exceed 180 days; or(3) both such fine and confinement.
a. A misdemeanor b. Class B misdemeanor c. Class c misdemeanor d. State Jail felony
31. An individual adjudged guilty of a ___ shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $500.
a. A misdemeanor b. Class B misdemeanor c. Class c misdemeanor d. State Jail felony
32. An individual adjudged guilty of a ___ felony in a case in which the state does not seek the death penalty shall
be punished by imprisonment in the institutional division for life without parole.
a. capital b. 2nd degree c. state jail d. 4th degree
33. In a capital felony trial in which the state seeks the death penalty, prospective jurors shall be informed that a
sentence of ___ is mandatory on conviction of a capital felony.
a. life imprisonment without parole b. life imprisonment without parole or death
c. parole d. capital punishment
34. In a capital felony trial in which the state does not seek the death penalty, prospective jurors shall be informed
that the state is not seeking the death penalty and that a sentence of ___ is mandatory on conviction of the capital
felony.
a. life imprisonment without parole b. life imprisonment without parole or death
c. parole d. capital punishment
35. The fraudulent or false writing or alteration of a legal writing or document with intent to defraud is ___.
a. uttering b. forgery c. criminal simulation d. false advertising
36. An individual adjudged guilty of a felony of the ___ degree shall be punished by imprisonment in the
institutional division for life or for any term of not more than 99 years or less than 5 years.
a. 1st b. 2nd c. 3rd d. state jail
37. An individual adjudged guilty of a felony of the ___ degree shall be punished by imprisonment in the
institutional division for any term of not more than 20 years or less than 2 years.
a. 1st b. 2nd c. 3rd d. state jail
38. An individual adjudged guilty of a felony of the ___ degree shall be punished by imprisonment in the
institutional division for any term of not more than 10 years or less than 2 years.
a. 1st b. 2nd c. 3rd d. state jail
39. An individual adjudged guilty of a ___ felony shall be punished by confinement in a state jail for any term of
not more than two years or less than 180 days.
a. 1st b. 2nd c. 3rd d. state jail
40. An individual adjudged guilty of a state jail felony shall be punished for a ___ degree felony if it is shown on
the trial of the offense that: (1) a deadly weapon was used or exhibited during the commission of the offense or
during immediate flight following the commission of the offense, and that the individual used or exhibited the
deadly weapon or was a party to the offense and knew that a deadly weapon would be used or exhibited.
a. 1st b. 2nd c. 3rd d. state jail