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Criminal Justice 101
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1. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
Retribution
Loosely Coupled System
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Constitutional Law
2. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
Special Police Force
Petition
830.1
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
3. What is a county law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Attorney General
Sheriff
Precedent
Special Police Force
4. What are the two ancient codes that contributed to our current legal system?
Potential for Incarceration
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Judiciary Act
Limited
5. What do bills of attainer relate to?
Community Sensitive Programs
Punishment without trial
Misdemeanor
Jurisdiction
6. Which of the five major phases in the criminal justice system since 1965 produced major case law?
Yes
Original Jurisdiction
Due Process Phase
Mala Prohibita
7. What does a mitigating factor make the report?
Parens Patriae
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Better
Federal Court System
8. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
Stars
830.1
1383
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
9. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
U.S. Constitution
Loosely Coupled
17 -500
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
10. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?
Body - Amendments
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Ah Peen
90%
11. The Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program motivated police to try what new procedures?
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Probation Officer
Community Sensitive Programs
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
12. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Limited
13. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Stars
Retribution
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
14. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?
Trial
Generalists
Petition
Crime Control - Due Process
15. How long is a federal judge's term of office for?
King John
Life
Government Attorney
English Common Law
16. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?
London Metropolitan Police Act
John Marshall
The Penal Code
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
17. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
Federal Court System
4th Amendment
Constitutional Law
State
18. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?
Bench Trial
National Crime Information Center
17
Information
19. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Intermediate Courts
Judicial - Executive
1203(b)(1) - Felony
20. In which two locations did the actual shooting war begin between British soldiers and Colonial militia men?
Lexington - Concord
14
Pendelton Act
Stare Decisis
21. The B.I.A. and the F.B.I. often provide support and assistance to what level of law enforcement agencies?
Preliminary Hearing
Miranda versus Arizona
Tribal
F.B.I.
22. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
830.1
Continue to another date
23. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
Preliminary Hearing
Punishment without trial
Own Recognizance
U.S. Constitution
24. What does a preliminary hearing determine?
County
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
25. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?
14
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Discretion
Adversarial System
26. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?
Serpico
Discretion
Due Process Phase
Judiciary Act
27. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?
Mala en Se
Makes deals and not go to trial
1903
Magna Carta
28. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?
Misdemeanor
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Patrick Colquhoun
29. What was name of the era which was distinguished by the Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program?
Sir Robert Peel
Information
Very inactive
Community Orientated Policing Era
30. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?
Mala Prohibita
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
State
Pendelton Act
31. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
Miranda versus Arizona
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Stare Decisis
National Crime Information Center
32. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
Punishment without trial
Vigilantes
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Better
33. The three federal courts are known as what?
King Henry II
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
1383
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
34. Other then UCRS and NIBRS - what entities compile information about crime in the country?
4th Amendment
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Attorney General
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
35. What concept attempts to alter future behaviors through threats of punishment and consequences?
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Deterrence
17
State
36. Where does a felony case begin?
Better
Bill of Rights
Retribution
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
37. If you plea guilty at a misdemeanor arraignment - when can a judge sentence you?
Right away
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Sir Robert Peel
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
38. During the Revolutionary War what major document helped to guide the colonies in fighting their war against Britain?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Retribution
The Penal Code
Articles of Confederation
39. What English Common Law court system could arguably be seen as the world's first dedicated juvenile court?
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40. What Penal Code section states that the court shall refer to probation for a report?
Body - Amendments
1 and 8
1203(b)(1) - Felony
County
41. What 1883 federal law stressed the need for a civil service system based upon merit?
Right away
Pendelton Act
$1.7 million
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
42. What two things do military police entities possess?
Judiciary Act
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Judicial System = Institutional System
Federal Court System
43. What two factors does a probation officer consider when writing the presentence report?
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Aggravating - Mitigating
County
Secret Service
44. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
4th Amendment
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Boston Massacre
Habeas Corpus
45. What west coast supreme court case in 1876 further established the philosophy of Parens Patriae and no due process for juveniles?
Ah Peen
Potential for Incarceration
Intermediate Courts
Lower Courts
46. Under English Common Law what was the general cut off age in distinguishing between those who could charged with felonies?
39
Punishment without trial
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
14
47. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
Serpico
Stars
Continue to another date
John Augustus
48. What law enforcement agency maintains the largest training academy in the U.S.?
Infraction
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Loosely Coupled
F.B.I.
49. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Statue of Winchester
Potential for Incarceration
50. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?
Precedent
Petition
50 - 25000
Right away