MCT #1 (2025) – Study Guide and Training Exam Revision Material
1.1 Identify major steps in the criminal justice process from arrest to disposition. - correct
answer ✔✔-Active criminal event
-active investigation
-post arrest activity by arresting officer
-booking & trial
1.1 Identify the difference between a felony, a misdemeanor, and infraction, and a wobbler. -
correct answer ✔✔-Felony: major criminal offense
-Misdemeanor: Lower level criminal offense
-Infraction: Lowest level criminal offense "ticket"
-Wobbler: Can be either felony or misdemeanor, but mostly felony
1.1 Match legal terms used in the adult criminal justice system to their definitions. - correct
answer ✔✔- Arrest: Taking a subject into Custody for an accused crime based on probable
cause/ warrant.
-Booking: processing of an arrestee into a correctional facility
- Bail: A dollar or bond amount given to the court for release prior to trials as a promise to
appear
- Trial: A formal hearing where evidence is presented to either AA jury or a judge to determine
guilt or innocence.
- Sentence/ Verdict/ Disposition: A punishment or penalty associated with a person being found
guilty of a criminal act.
- Plea/ Negotiated Plea: A pronouncement of guilt or innocence by the person accused of a
criminal act/ negotiated settlement of the case
- Warrant: A formal written document signed by a judge which allows a person to be arrested
and incarcerated.
, 1.1 Identify the major types of dispositions in adult cases. - correct answer ✔✔- Straight
Incarceration: county jail/ state prison
- Medium,Minimum,Maximum: every crime has three levels of punishment
- Alternative Sentencing: Re-entry, rehabilitative, parole, probation
- Incarceration: time served, consecutive time, concurrent time
1.1 Using the Penal Code and the Welfare and Institution Code for reference, identify
circumstances under which juveniles could be processed in the adult criminal justice system. -
correct answer ✔✔- Section 707 (a) (1) California Welfare and Institution Code
- Section 707 (a) (2) California Welfare and Institution Code
- Section 707 (a)(1)(3)(A) California Welfare and Institution Code
1.2 Identify the Penal Codes sections relevant to your position as an officer? - correct answer
✔✔- PC 830: peace officer
- PC 830.1(c): custodial deputy
- PC 832(A): powers of arrest
- PC 835(a): A peace officer may use reasonable force to: effect an arrest, prevent escape, &
overcome resistance
- PC Section 4000: lawful incarceration, jails are used as follows:
Persons charged with a criminal offense
Persons awaiting trial
Committed to jail for contempt of court, civil, authority of law
Imprisonment by conviction
- PC 69: Resisting an executive officer by threats or violence
- PC 4573: drugs into jail and prison
1.1 Identify major steps in the criminal justice process from arrest to disposition. - correct
answer ✔✔-Active criminal event
-active investigation
-post arrest activity by arresting officer
-booking & trial
1.1 Identify the difference between a felony, a misdemeanor, and infraction, and a wobbler. -
correct answer ✔✔-Felony: major criminal offense
-Misdemeanor: Lower level criminal offense
-Infraction: Lowest level criminal offense "ticket"
-Wobbler: Can be either felony or misdemeanor, but mostly felony
1.1 Match legal terms used in the adult criminal justice system to their definitions. - correct
answer ✔✔- Arrest: Taking a subject into Custody for an accused crime based on probable
cause/ warrant.
-Booking: processing of an arrestee into a correctional facility
- Bail: A dollar or bond amount given to the court for release prior to trials as a promise to
appear
- Trial: A formal hearing where evidence is presented to either AA jury or a judge to determine
guilt or innocence.
- Sentence/ Verdict/ Disposition: A punishment or penalty associated with a person being found
guilty of a criminal act.
- Plea/ Negotiated Plea: A pronouncement of guilt or innocence by the person accused of a
criminal act/ negotiated settlement of the case
- Warrant: A formal written document signed by a judge which allows a person to be arrested
and incarcerated.
, 1.1 Identify the major types of dispositions in adult cases. - correct answer ✔✔- Straight
Incarceration: county jail/ state prison
- Medium,Minimum,Maximum: every crime has three levels of punishment
- Alternative Sentencing: Re-entry, rehabilitative, parole, probation
- Incarceration: time served, consecutive time, concurrent time
1.1 Using the Penal Code and the Welfare and Institution Code for reference, identify
circumstances under which juveniles could be processed in the adult criminal justice system. -
correct answer ✔✔- Section 707 (a) (1) California Welfare and Institution Code
- Section 707 (a) (2) California Welfare and Institution Code
- Section 707 (a)(1)(3)(A) California Welfare and Institution Code
1.2 Identify the Penal Codes sections relevant to your position as an officer? - correct answer
✔✔- PC 830: peace officer
- PC 830.1(c): custodial deputy
- PC 832(A): powers of arrest
- PC 835(a): A peace officer may use reasonable force to: effect an arrest, prevent escape, &
overcome resistance
- PC Section 4000: lawful incarceration, jails are used as follows:
Persons charged with a criminal offense
Persons awaiting trial
Committed to jail for contempt of court, civil, authority of law
Imprisonment by conviction
- PC 69: Resisting an executive officer by threats or violence
- PC 4573: drugs into jail and prison
