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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What is discovery?
Body - Amendments
Incapaciation
F.B.I
Evidence
2. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?
State/Local Court System
Sir Robert Peel
Adversarial System
State
3. In what year and state was the country's first dedicated juvenile justice system and court legally established?
Vigilantes
1899 Illinois
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
U.S. Marshall's
4. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
Attorney General
Jurisdiction
1383
17
5. How long is a federal judge's term of office for?
Crime Control - Due Process
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Sworn - Non-sworn
Life
6. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?
Jurisdiction
4th Amendment
F.B.I.
County
7. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
8th Amendment
14
1 and 8
8. Both felonies are misdemeanors are first filed as what?
Incapaciation
Life
Judiciary Act
Complaint
9. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
Secret Service
Continue to another date
Judiciary Act
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
10. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
Discretion
39
Sworn - Non-sworn
U.S. Constitution
11. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?
U.S. Federal District Courts
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Ah Peen
Possecomintatus
12. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
Special Police Force
Courts
Serpico
Worse
13. What are the two types of defense attorneys?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Assistant District Attorneys
Infraction
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
14. What is a county law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Sheriff
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Original Jurisdiction
George Washington - John Adams
15. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Sheriff or Shireeve
Constitutional Law
16. Other then UCRS and NIBRS - what entities compile information about crime in the country?
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Very inactive
State
17. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?
Worse
Original Jurisdiction
Patronage
State
18. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Court Room Work Group
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
830.1
19. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?
Felony
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Stare Decisis
King Henry II
20. In which two locations did the actual shooting war begin between British soldiers and Colonial militia men?
1382
Attorney General
Community Orientated Policing Era
Lexington - Concord
21. In 1789 which London magistrate stressed the need for a 'centralized' law enforcement agency?
Article III of the Constitution
Stars
English Common Law
Patrick Colquhoun
22. 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
U.S. Constitution
Community Sensitive Programs
Community Orientated Policing Era
23. What do bills of attainer relate to?
Punishment without trial
Appeals
Pretrial Hearing
8th Amendment
24. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?
Bill of Rights
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Court Room Work Group
14
25. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Broken Windows
Generalists
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
26. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
Mala Prohibita
Tribal
Patrick Colquhoun
F.B.I.
27. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?
Patrick Colquhoun
Discretion
English Common Law
17 -500
28. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?
17
6th Amendment
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Serpico
29. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?
F.B.I
Patrick Colquhoun
Retribution
State/Local Court System
30. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
F.B.I.
Article III of the Constitution
Sheriff
31. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
Community Sensitive Programs
The Family Model
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Trials
32. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
Bench Trial
4th Amendment
Judicial System = Institutional System
Trial
33. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Felony
Information
First Continental Congress
34. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Own Recognizance
State
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
35. The third federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
Federal Court System
Mala en Se
U.S. Federal District Courts
State
36. What does a judge order the probation department to write in order to find more about an individual before sentencing?
Statue of Winchester
Aggravating - Mitigating
Presentence Court Report
1203(b)(1) - Felony
37. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?
Makes deals and not go to trial
1382
14
39
38. What was name of the era which was distinguished by the Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program?
John Marshall
17 -500
Community Orientated Policing Era
Precedent
39. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?
Courts
Judiciary Act
Habeas Corpus
1977 Dixon Bill
40. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?
85%
Very inactive
F.B.I.
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
41. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Better
50 - 25000
5th Amendment
42. What does an aggravating factor make the report?
Precedent
Articles of Confederation
Bench Trial
Worse
43. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?
Stare Decisis
Mala Prohibita
Articles of Confederation
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
44. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?
Tribal
Intermediate Courts
State Supreme Court
U.S. Constitution
45. What 1865 federal law enforcement agency was initially responsible for excessive counterfeiting following the civil war?
Sheriff or Shireeve
Due Process
Probation Officer
Secret Service
46. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
None
All volunteers
Discretion
47. What does N.C.I.C. stand for?
Information
National Crime Information Center
Prison Time - Death Sentence
State
48. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
Loosely Coupled System
Punishment without trial
Articles of Confederation
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
49. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?
830.1
Tribal
Evaluation
Deterrence
50. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
U.S. Court of Appeals
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
17 -500
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