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Criminal Justice 101
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1. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
George Washington - John Adams
1977 Dixon Bill
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Ah Peen
2. Where does a felony case begin?
State
King Henry II
Patrick Colquhoun
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
3. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?
Government Attorney
17 -500
Pretrial Hearing
Miranda versus Arizona
4. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?
Sworn - Non-sworn
National Crime Information Center
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Hoover
5. In what year and state was the country's first dedicated juvenile justice system and court legally established?
Judicial Review
90%
1899 Illinois
Limited
6. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?
U.S. Marshall's
Sworn - Non-sworn
Hoover
6th Amendment
7. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?
1382
Constitutional Law
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Very inactive
8. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?
John Augustus
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
14
14
9. What does ex-post facto law relate to?
Chief
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
State Supreme Court
Future laws not passed yet
10. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
85%
Incorrigibles
Tribal
11. What are the four Cs of the criminal justice system?
John Marshall
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
King Henry II
Pretrial Hearing
12. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
1383
Sworn - Non-sworn
Federal Court System
Petition
13. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
Parens Patriae
State
None
1382
14. What does a preliminary hearing determine?
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
5th Amendment
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
15. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
Conditional Sentence
Trials
Special Police Force
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
16. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Discretion
Article III of the Constitution
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
17. Who runs the N.C.I.C.?
F.B.I
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Hoover
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
18. After the U.S. Constitution was ratified - what type of court system did the U.S. realize it needed to have?
Pendelton Act
Adversarial System
Federal Court System
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
19. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
All volunteers
Complaint
State/Local Court System
Misdemeanor
20. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
Preliminary Hearing
14
Statue of Winchester
$1.7 million
21. Which of the five major phases in the criminal justice system since 1965 produced major case law?
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Intermediate Courts
Due Process Phase
Vigilantes
22. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
State
1899 Illinois
90 Million
Indeterminate Sentencing
23. What is the Latin term that means evil or bad in itself?
Mala en Se
Trial
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Jurisdiction
24. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?
17
State
Possecomintatus
First Continental Congress
25. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?
Indeterminate Sentencing
Change
Stars
Crime Control - Due Process
26. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
14th Amendment
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Intermediate Courts
27. What was the name of the article which encouraged law enforcement not just to focus on crime - but the social factors of crime?
Chief
Broken Windows
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
28. The Federal Court system was created through what?
Judiciary Act
$1.7 million
F.B.I.
Sheriff or Shireeve
29. What 1770 shooting incident heightened tensions between Boston colonists and newly arrived British soldiers?
Right away
County
Boston Massacre
Vigilantes
30. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?
Punishment without trial
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
8th Amendment
Patronage and Corruption
31. The Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program motivated police to try what new procedures?
Evaluation
Community Sensitive Programs
Judiciary Act
Special Police Force
32. What two things do military police entities possess?
1903
Magna Carta
Judicial System = Institutional System
Hoover
33. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?
Parens Patriae
King Henry II
Discretion
14
34. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?
State/Local Court System
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Sir Robert Peel
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
35. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?
Lower Courts
The Penal Code
Discretion
Adversarial System
36. What was the original staffing of the U.S. Supreme Court?
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Incorrigibles
National Crime Information Center
37. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
Patronage
Special Police Force
U.S. Constitution
Mala Prohibita
38. What Latin term means great paper?
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Sworn - Non-sworn
Own Recognizance
Magna Carta
39. What type of bodies do our current laws come from?
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Sworn - Non-sworn
Judicial/Legislative
Retribution
40. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Judicial - Executive
Jurisdiction
Hoover
41. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
Possecomintatus
Right away
None
830.1
42. What 1865 federal law enforcement agency was initially responsible for excessive counterfeiting following the civil war?
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
U.S. Federal District Courts
Secret Service
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
43. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?
Body - Amendments
Appeal
Information
Sheriff or Shireeve
44. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
Tribal
Own Recognizance
Bill of Rights
Change
45. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
Very inactive
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
State
46. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1987 as a supplement to UCRS?
Hoover
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Pretrial Hearing
Chief
47. Who said - 'The police are the public and the public are the police'?
85%
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Presentence Court Report
Sir Robert Peel
48. What does O.R. mean?
Bench Trial
Own Recognizance
London Metropolitan Police Act
Pretrial Hearing
49. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Serpico
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
50. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Generalists
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
830.1
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