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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
39
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
14
2. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?
Adversarial System
County
Appeal
Sheriff
3. What does N.C.I.C. stand for?
Broken Windows
Lexington - Concord
U.S. Court of Appeals
National Crime Information Center
4. What is meant by inferior courts?
Lower Courts
Discretion
Information
John Marshall
5. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
U.S. Court of Appeals
Judiciary Act
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Bill of Rights
6. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
Magna Carta
State
Sheriff
830.1
7. What does a judge order the probation department to write in order to find more about an individual before sentencing?
Presentence Court Report
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Pretrial Hearing
None
8. What 1883 federal law stressed the need for a civil service system based upon merit?
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Due Process Phase
None
Pendelton Act
9. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
Conditional Sentence
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Discretion
Lexington - Concord
10. What does O.R. mean?
State
U.S. Court of Appeals
Community Orientated Policing Era
Own Recognizance
11. What were minors who disobeyed orders of the Kings Chancery Court system called?
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Article III of the Constitution
Incorrigibles
Limited
12. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?
Sworn - Non-sworn
Petition
17 -500
Secret Service
13. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Preliminary Hearing
Stare Decisis
Community Orientated Policing Era
14. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
Better
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Limited
Stare Decisis
15. What is the point of a second preliminary hearing?
Magna Carta
Trial
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
50 - 25000
16. What does ex-post facto law relate to?
Mala Prohibita
Yes
Future laws not passed yet
Vigilantes
17. If you plea guilty at a misdemeanor arraignment - when can a judge sentence you?
Right away
Original Jurisdiction
Community Orientated Policing Era
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
18. What current California legal code did the Law of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses contribute to?
English Common Law
The Penal Code
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
14
19. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
U.S. Court of Appeals
39
Miranda versus Arizona
All volunteers
20. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
Bench Trial
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
90 Million
Yes
21. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
Courts
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
22. What Penal Code section states that the court shall refer to probation for a report?
Vigilantes
Judiciary Act
1203(b)(1) - Felony
U.S. Federal District Courts
23. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
Preliminary Hearing
Intermediate Courts
85%
Article III of the Constitution
24. During the Revolutionary War what major document helped to guide the colonies in fighting their war against Britain?
Conditional Sentence
Articles of Confederation
Body - Amendments
King Chamberlain's Court
25. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?
State
Miranda versus Arizona
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Potential for Incarceration
26. Both felonies are misdemeanors are first filed as what?
The Penal Code
Life
Complaint
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
27. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?
Trial
Constitutional Law
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Article III of the Constitution
28. Jail time - restitution - contact restrictions - drug testing - searches and seizures - employment verification - and counseling can be terms of what?
Local level
Stare Decisis
Formal Probation
Continue to another date
29. What concepts attempts to protect society by isolating others?
Retribution
None
Incapaciation
Trial
30. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
1 and 8
George Washington - John Adams
Misdemeanor
Nolo Contendre
31. What law enforcement agency maintains the largest training academy in the U.S.?
Pretrial Hearing
Lower Courts
85%
F.B.I.
32. Negative political influence and corruption impacting 19th century U.S. police agencies was called what?
First Continental Congress
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Punishment without trial
Patronage
33. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?
Aggravating - Mitigating
F.B.I.
Information
90%
34. What was the name of the group of people who went to Philadelphia in 1774 in order to discuss their unhappiness with Britain and its taxes?
U.S. Federal District Courts
First Continental Congress
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Own Recognizance
35. When pleading guilty at a felony arrangement - what does the judge generally do for sentencing?
Continue to another date
Jurisdiction
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Very inactive
36. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?
Federal Court System
17 -500
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
14th Amendment
37. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?
Crime Control Due Process
U.S. Constitution
Change
Discretion
38. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
Makes deals and not go to trial
Adversarial System
Mary Ann Crouse
Community Orientated Policing Era
39. Under English Common Law what was the general cut off age in distinguishing between those who could charged with felonies?
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
County
14
Trials
40. What federal law enforcement agency delegated peace officer powers to citizens during the era of the wild west?
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41. What legal model first attempted the concept of rehabilitation and resocialization?
Community Orientated Policing Era
The Family Model
English Common Law
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
42. What west coast supreme court case in 1876 further established the philosophy of Parens Patriae and no due process for juveniles?
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Ah Peen
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
90%
43. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?
Original Jurisdiction
Articles of Confederation
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
5th Amendment
44. What Penal Code section states that the court may refer to probation for a report?
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Yes
U.S. Postal Inspectors
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
45. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
Lexington - Concord
Formal Probation
Patronage
Statue of Winchester
46. What was name of the era which was distinguished by the Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program?
Retribution
Community Orientated Policing Era
Original Jurisdiction
Original Jurisdiction
47. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?
Life
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
King Henry II
48. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?
Pendelton Act
U.S. Federal District Courts
Sir Robert Peel
State
49. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?
English Common Law
Nolo Contendre
Crime Control Due Process
Judicial/Legislative
50. Who said - 'The police are the public and the public are the police'?
Sir Robert Peel
Sworn - Non-sworn
Articles of Confederation
Adversarial System