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Criminal Justice 101
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1. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
Stars
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Punishment without trial
U.S. Constitution
2. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?
Stare Decisis
State Supreme Court
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Sir Robert Peel
3. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?
Jurisdiction
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Dual System
Future laws not passed yet
4. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Sheriff
Deterrence
Pretrial Hearing
5. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?
1903
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
4th Amendment
14
6. What were minors who disobeyed orders of the Kings Chancery Court system called?
Community Sensitive Programs
17 -500
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Incorrigibles
7. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?
Stars
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Courts
1903
8. Who runs the N.C.I.C.?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
State Supreme Court
Lexington - Concord
F.B.I
9. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?
Intermediate Courts
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Pendelton Act
10. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?
Patronage and Corruption
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
U.S. Marshall's
11. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?
17 -500
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Judicial Review
Better
12. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
Courts
Indeterminate Sentencing
Crime Control - Due Process
Own Recognizance
13. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
Probation Officer
Mala Prohibita
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Habeas Corpus
14. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?
Presentence Court Report
Intermediate Courts
Government Attorney
Bench Trial
15. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?
39
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Bench Trial
Community Orientated Policing Era
16. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Sir Robert Peel
King Chamberlain's Court
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
17. Other then UCRS and NIBRS - what entities compile information about crime in the country?
Possecomintatus
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Generalists
18. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
1 and 8
Petition
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
19. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
F.B.I
Constitutional Law
Tribal
All volunteers
20. The Federal Court system was created through what?
Complaint
Discretion
Judiciary Act
U.S. Federal District Courts
21. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?
Community Orientated Policing Era
London Metropolitan Police Act
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Sheriff or Shireeve
22. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?
Discretion
Life
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
23. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?
Sheriff or Shireeve
Judicial System = Institutional System
Intermediate Courts
Discretion
24. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Adversarial System
Intermediate Courts
Evaluation
25. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
Limited
Superior Court
Adversarial System
90 Million
26. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
Court Room Work Group
14
Adversarial System
Worse
27. What is the Latin term that means evil or bad in itself?
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Evidence
Due Process
Mala en Se
28. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?
Mala en Se
Continue to another date
Due Process
Body - Amendments
29. Who is referred to as the father of probation?
John Augustus
Stare Decisis
Mala en Se
State
30. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
50 - 25000
Habeas Corpus
39
31. In what year and state was the country's first dedicated juvenile justice system and court legally established?
Mary Ann Crouse
None
1899 Illinois
Community Orientated Policing Era
32. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
None
Sheriff
Sir Robert Peel
Change
33. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Discretion
Judicial - Executive
F.B.I.
Article III of the Constitution
34. What does ex-post facto law relate to?
Future laws not passed yet
Trials
State
Stare Decisis
35. What Latin term means great paper?
Magna Carta
Mary Ann Crouse
Hoover
Generalists
36. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Federal Court System
U.S. Federal District Courts
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
37. What 1865 federal law enforcement agency was initially responsible for excessive counterfeiting following the civil war?
Retribution
Secret Service
Courts
Local level
38. What is another term for informal probation?
Conditional Sentence
1382
Own Recognizance
Possecomintatus
39. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
Discretion
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
U.S. Constitution
Punishment without trial
40. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?
Stars
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Dual System
14
41. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
Chief
Mary Ann Crouse
State
Adversarial System
42. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
Formal Probation
County
Bill of Rights
Patronage and Corruption
43. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?
George Washington - John Adams
Tribal
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
44. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
County
Sworn - Non-sworn
English Common Law
45. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
Better
F.B.I.
Jurisdiction
U.S. Court of Appeals
46. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
Trials
Judiciary Act
Deterrence
Lower Courts
47. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
Judicial/Legislative
U.S. Federal District Courts
Tribal
County
48. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
Nolo Contendre
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
George Washington - John Adams
Government Attorney
49. Local California courts which handle misdemeanors - minor civil matters - and traffic violations are called what?
Mala en Se
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Evidence
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
50. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Government Attorney
National Crime Information Center
6th Amendment