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Criminal Justice 101
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1. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
Future laws not passed yet
U.S. Court of Appeals
Community Orientated Policing Era
English Common Law
2. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
14
17
Habeas Corpus
17 -500
3. If you plea guilty at a misdemeanor arraignment - when can a judge sentence you?
Infraction
Discretion
Right away
Secret Service
4. How many states use the death penalty?
1977 Dixon Bill
34
Nolo Contendre
U.S. Federal District Courts
5. In 1789 which London magistrate stressed the need for a 'centralized' law enforcement agency?
Loosely Coupled System
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Patrick Colquhoun
Due Process Phase
6. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?
Pretrial Hearing
Government Attorney
Bench Trial
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
7. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Possecomintatus
Nolo Contendre
John Marshall
8. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?
Sir Robert Peel
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Court Administrator
John Marshall
9. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
1 and 8
1977 Dixon Bill
The Penal Code
10. What does N.C.I.C. stand for?
Stars
F.B.I
Articles of Confederation
National Crime Information Center
11. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?
U.S. Court of Appeals
1899 Illinois
Trials
Sheriff or Shireeve
12. What Latin term means - 'father or parent of the country?'
Tribal
Parens Patriae
Sheriff or Shireeve
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
13. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
Complaint
1977 Dixon Bill
34
Statue of Winchester
14. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
Court Room Work Group
Miranda versus Arizona
All volunteers
6th Amendment
15. What major 1803 U.S. Supreme Court case established that the court would begin to interpret what the constitution was all about?
Judiciary Act
The Family Model
State
Marbury versus Madison
16. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?
Assistant District Attorneys
Chief
Attorney General
U.S. Constitution
17. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?
National Crime Information Center
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
830.1
Appeals
18. What English Common Law court system could arguably be seen as the world's first dedicated juvenile court?
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19. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
Discretion
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
5th Amendment
Generalists
20. What federal law enforcement agency delegated peace officer powers to citizens during the era of the wild west?
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21. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Information
Mala Prohibita
County
22. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
State
5th Amendment
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
23. When court systems or levels disagree or question if rules are properly applied - what type of court is used?
Federal Court System
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Appeals
Conditional Sentence
24. The three federal courts are known as what?
Information
Evaluation
17 -500
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
25. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?
Precedent
Stars
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Sheriff or Shireeve
26. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?
Potential for Incarceration
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Future laws not passed yet
27. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
Patronage
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Misdemeanor
28. What 1883 federal law stressed the need for a civil service system based upon merit?
Vigilantes
Superior Court
Aggravating - Mitigating
Pendelton Act
29. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
Arrangement
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Stars
1382
30. What 1865 federal law enforcement agency was initially responsible for excessive counterfeiting following the civil war?
Secret Service
Information
King Henry II
Precedent
31. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Yes
Constitutional Law
1899 Illinois
32. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
Limited
U.S. Court of Appeals
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Indeterminate Sentencing
33. The third federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Tribal
U.S. Federal District Courts
English Common Law
34. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Generalists
Very inactive
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
35. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Very inactive
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
14
36. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?
Preliminary Hearing
County
Better
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
37. In what year and state was the country's first dedicated juvenile justice system and court legally established?
1899 Illinois
Article III of the Constitution
County
Stars
38. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
Local level
Pendelton Act
1977 Dixon Bill
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
39. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?
Sheriff
Sir Robert Peel
Crime Control - Due Process
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
40. The Federal Court system was created through what?
Judiciary Act
1382
Pretrial Hearing
1 and 8
41. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
Potential for Incarceration
State
Continue to another date
Stare Decisis
42. What is meant by inferior courts?
First Continental Congress
Attorney General
Lower Courts
Petition
43. What does an aggravating factor make the report?
John Marshall
Discretion
George Washington - John Adams
Worse
44. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?
Felony
1903
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Trial
45. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?
Habeas Corpus
Courts
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Limited
46. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Complaint
Preliminary Hearing
Pendelton Act
47. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Broken Windows
Original Jurisdiction
Evaluation
48. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
$1.7 million
Patronage and Corruption
49. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
Potential for Incarceration
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Vigilantes
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
50. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?
Courts
Original Jurisdiction
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
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