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Criminal Justice 101
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What English Common Law court system could arguably be seen as the world's first dedicated juvenile court?
2. What is the point of a second preliminary hearing?
Appeal
Formal Probation
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Dual System
3. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?
Petition
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Arrangement
4. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Stamp Act of 1765
Court Room Work Group
Preliminary Hearing
5. What are the five levels of force among agencies?
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Probation Officer
Intermediate Courts
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
6. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?
14
Preliminary Hearing
Attorney General
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
7. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Future laws not passed yet
None
Community Sensitive Programs
8. What federal law enforcement agency delegated peace officer powers to citizens during the era of the wild west?
9. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?
State/Local Court System
The Family Model
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Marbury versus Madison
10. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?
Original Jurisdiction
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
John Augustus
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
11. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1987 as a supplement to UCRS?
Conditional Sentence
John Marshall
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Tribal
12. What concepts attempts to protect society by isolating others?
Due Process Phase
4th Amendment
Incapaciation
Adversarial System
13. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
Discretion
Tribal
Conditional Sentence
Mala en Se
14. What does a mitigating factor make the report?
Judicial - Executive
Statue of Winchester
Better
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
15. What is the name for a juvenile complaint?
State
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Petition
Local level
16. What was name of the era which was distinguished by the Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program?
Potential for Incarceration
39
F.B.I
Community Orientated Policing Era
17. What major 1803 U.S. Supreme Court case established that the court would begin to interpret what the constitution was all about?
Marbury versus Madison
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Government Attorney
1382
18. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?
Crime Control Due Process
Tribal
34
Incorrigibles
19. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Own Recognizance
4th Amendment
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
20. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?
Evaluation
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Special Police Force
Felony
21. The B.I.A. and the F.B.I. often provide support and assistance to what level of law enforcement agencies?
Judicial - Executive
Tribal
King Chamberlain's Court
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
22. Local California courts which handle misdemeanors - minor civil matters - and traffic violations are called what?
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Due Process Phase
Crime Control Due Process
Article III of the Constitution
23. Jail time - restitution - contact restrictions - drug testing - searches and seizures - employment verification - and counseling can be terms of what?
Superior Court
Formal Probation
Statue of Winchester
1 and 8
24. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?
Better
Information
Stare Decisis
County
25. In 1829 which English government employee pushed a new law which followed the ideas of Patrick Colquhoun?
1383
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Sir Robert Peel
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
26. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
39
State
Government Attorney
Community Orientated Policing Era
27. During the Revolutionary War what major document helped to guide the colonies in fighting their war against Britain?
Stars
Articles of Confederation
1382
Sir Robert Peel
28. What type of bodies do our current laws come from?
The Family Model
Tribal
Judicial/Legislative
Articles of Confederation
29. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?
Change
Courts
King John
U.S. Postal Inspectors
30. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
English Common Law
31. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
Serpico
Sir Robert Peel
Mala Prohibita
Stare Decisis
32. What major 1829 English law created a centralized urban police force in London?
London Metropolitan Police Act
Due Process Phase
6th Amendment
Evidence
33. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?
Misdemeanor
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
6th Amendment
Stamp Act of 1765
34. What is the main criteria which determines whether a mater goes to a federal or state court?
Tribal
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Serpico
Indeterminate Sentencing
35. After the U.S. Constitution was ratified - what type of court system did the U.S. realize it needed to have?
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Article III of the Constitution
Original Jurisdiction
Federal Court System
36. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
State
Preliminary Hearing
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Loosely Coupled System
37. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
90 Million
Community Sensitive Programs
Very inactive
38. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?
John Marshall
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
King Henry II
Prison Time - Death Sentence
39. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?
8th Amendment
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Better
40. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?
Ah Peen
Formal Probation
Intermediate Courts
None
41. What is a county law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Secret Service
Sheriff
14
Due Process Phase
42. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Body - Amendments
County
Local level
43. Where does a felony case begin?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
50 - 25000
Patronage
Right away
44. The average local law enforcement agency will often employ how many officers and serve what size population?
50 - 25000
Mary Ann Crouse
Possecomintatus
Incapaciation
45. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Tribal
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
46. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
Ah Peen
Courts
Appeal
F.B.I.
47. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?
Community Orientated Policing Era
Parens Patriae
Precedent
1903
48. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Arrangement
Miranda versus Arizona
Tribal
49. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Due Process Phase
Vigilantes
Petition
50. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
1903
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Broken Windows