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Criminal Justice 101
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1. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?
14
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
2. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?
County
Better
Limited
Very inactive
3. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?
90 Million
Judiciary Act
17
1977 Dixon Bill
4. What Penal Code section states that the court shall refer to probation for a report?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
8th Amendment
Potential for Incarceration
U.S. Marshall's
5. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
14
Potential for Incarceration
F.B.I
State
6. What is meant by inferior courts?
Judicial Review
Lower Courts
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
1203(b)(1) - Felony
7. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
F.B.I.
6th Amendment
Trials
Formal Probation
8. What concept discusses 'an eye for an eye'?
Attorney General
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
14th Amendment
Retribution
9. What is another term for informal probation?
Conditional Sentence
Hoover
Boston Massacre
6th Amendment
10. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
Patronage and Corruption
Probation Officer
Stare Decisis
Community Orientated Policing Era
11. What is the Latin term that means evil or bad in itself?
National Crime Information Center
County
Incorrigibles
Mala en Se
12. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Preliminary Hearing
Special Police Force
First Continental Congress
13. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Misdemeanor
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
14. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Possecomintatus
Lower Courts
Courts
15. What two things do military police entities possess?
1382
Judicial System = Institutional System
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Stare Decisis
16. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?
Constitutional Law
Parens Patriae
4th Amendment
Boston Massacre
17. What concept attempts to alter future behaviors through threats of punishment and consequences?
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Deterrence
Original Jurisdiction
Retribution
18. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?
Better
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Due Process
Preliminary Hearing
19. What is the State Court System's court of last resort?
Superior Court
Appeals
Incorrigibles
State Supreme Court
20. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
Very inactive
Chief
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Change
21. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
U.S. Constitution
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
5th Amendment
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
22. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?
1899 Illinois
Original Jurisdiction
Magna Carta
Crime Control - Due Process
23. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?
Adversarial System
14
Federal Court System
State
24. After the U.S. Constitution was ratified - what type of court system did the U.S. realize it needed to have?
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
1382
Federal Court System
Mala en Se
25. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Federal Court System
14
Attorney General
26. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?
John Marshall
Trial
Sworn - Non-sworn
Sir Robert Peel
27. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Constitutional Law
Judicial - Executive
Superior Court
90 Million
28. What 1838 Ohio State Supreme Court Case established the concept of Parens Patriae and no need for due process in juvenile matters?
Mary Ann Crouse
Nolo Contendre
County
National Crime Information Center
29. What are the oldest law enforcement agencies in the country?
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30. In Orange County - what type of prosecuting attorneys handle the day to day issues in the court room?
Boston Massacre
Aggravating - Mitigating
Assistant District Attorneys
U.S. Court of Appeals
31. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
Parens Patriae
U.S. Federal District Courts
Bill of Rights
34
32. What does a judge order the probation department to write in order to find more about an individual before sentencing?
Presentence Court Report
Pendelton Act
Mala en Se
Vigilantes
33. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?
Boston Massacre
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Misdemeanor
Miranda versus Arizona
34. What are the two types of defense attorneys?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Body - Amendments
First Continental Congress
1903
35. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1930?
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Parens Patriae
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
36. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?
Information
Stars
Continue to another date
Patronage and Corruption
37. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?
Original Jurisdiction
1 and 8
Community Sensitive Programs
Articles of Confederation
38. What 1865 federal law enforcement agency was initially responsible for excessive counterfeiting following the civil war?
Articles of Confederation
Secret Service
F.B.I.
State
39. What is the average budget of a local law enforcement agency?
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
$1.7 million
Marbury versus Madison
Community Orientated Policing Era
40. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?
State
Crime Control - Due Process
Sir Robert Peel
Hoover
41. Who runs the N.C.I.C.?
1383
F.B.I
8th Amendment
State
42. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?
U.S. Postal Inspectors
1903
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Federal Court System
43. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
Chief
1977 Dixon Bill
Pretrial Hearing
Judiciary Act
44. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
Stare Decisis
Bench Trial
U.S. Court of Appeals
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
45. In which two locations did the actual shooting war begin between British soldiers and Colonial militia men?
50 - 25000
Lexington - Concord
14th Amendment
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
46. Both felonies are misdemeanors are first filed as what?
4th Amendment
Future laws not passed yet
Special Police Force
Complaint
47. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
The Penal Code
John Marshall
Loosely Coupled
85%
48. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Habeas Corpus
Patrick Colquhoun
Conditional Sentence
49. What 1883 federal law stressed the need for a civil service system based upon merit?
Sheriff or Shireeve
Chief
1903
Pendelton Act
50. What is the point of a second preliminary hearing?
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
State
Very inactive
17 -500
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