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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
London Metropolitan Police Act
Due Process
Information
2. What is another term for informal probation?
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Vigilantes
Conditional Sentence
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
3. Local California courts which handle misdemeanors - minor civil matters - and traffic violations are called what?
Body - Amendments
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Pendelton Act
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
4. The Federal Court system was created through what?
Community Orientated Policing Era
All volunteers
Judiciary Act
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
5. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
Change
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Broken Windows
Nolo Contendre
6. Which 1760s British tax law placed tax quotes on all paper based products imported into the colonies?
John Augustus
Discretion
Habeas Corpus
Stamp Act of 1765
7. In 1829 which English government employee pushed a new law which followed the ideas of Patrick Colquhoun?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
830.1
Sir Robert Peel
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
8. What do bills of attainer relate to?
Punishment without trial
Stare Decisis
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
4th Amendment
9. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?
Miranda versus Arizona
Mala en Se
Sir Robert Peel
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
10. 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
Sheriff or Shireeve
Intermediate Courts
Secret Service
11. What current California legal code did the Law of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses contribute to?
Judiciary Act
The Penal Code
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Sheriff
12. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
Judicial - Executive
Government Attorney
Local level
U.S. Court of Appeals
13. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
Pendelton Act
Intermediate Courts
5th Amendment
Assistant District Attorneys
14. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
Miranda versus Arizona
Generalists
Loosely Coupled System
Local level
15. What were minors who disobeyed orders of the Kings Chancery Court system called?
Conditional Sentence
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Incorrigibles
County
16. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
Sheriff
Intermediate Courts
Federal Court System
90 Million
17. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
Limited
17
Vigilantes
Hoover
18. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?
Judiciary Act
Trial
The Family Model
Due Process Phase
19. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Patronage and Corruption
Sheriff or Shireeve
Bench Trial
20. In 1789 which London magistrate stressed the need for a 'centralized' law enforcement agency?
Patrick Colquhoun
Miranda versus Arizona
Worse
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
21. What Penal Code section states that the court shall refer to probation for a report?
17
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Complaint
22. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
Nolo Contendre
Special Police Force
King John
Change
23. What law enforcement agency maintains the largest training academy in the U.S.?
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
1203(b)(1) - Felony
F.B.I.
14th Amendment
24. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
None
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
14th Amendment
Change
25. In Orange County - what type of prosecuting attorneys handle the day to day issues in the court room?
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Assistant District Attorneys
Article III of the Constitution
26. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
Habeas Corpus
Mary Ann Crouse
F.B.I.
Evidence
27. 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
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
14th Amendment
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
28. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?
County
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Petition
Due Process
29. What concept attempts to alter future behaviors through threats of punishment and consequences?
90%
Deterrence
F.B.I.
Felony
30. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
Preliminary Hearing
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Assistant District Attorneys
Constitutional Law
31. What two things do military police entities possess?
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Chief
Judicial System = Institutional System
32. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
Information
830.1
34
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
33. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?
State Supreme Court
King John
Lexington - Concord
90 Million
34. What is an offense that consists of illegal conduct but no jail time?
Life
Incorrigibles
Infraction
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
35. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?
50 - 25000
Patrick Colquhoun
Article III of the Constitution
Miranda versus Arizona
36. Both felonies are misdemeanors are first filed as what?
Constitutional Law
Complaint
Due Process
Adversarial System
37. What do the majority of cases going into the U.S. District Court involve?
Crime Control Due Process
U.S. Federal District Courts
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Pendelton Act
38. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?
Probation Officer
39
Arrangement
State Supreme Court
39. In which two locations did the actual shooting war begin between British soldiers and Colonial militia men?
U.S. Court of Appeals
Lexington - Concord
Mary Ann Crouse
5th Amendment
40. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?
Due Process Phase
Potential for Incarceration
Federal Court System
Dual System
41. What are the five levels of force among agencies?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
6th Amendment
Sir Robert Peel
42. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
King Chamberlain's Court
Mary Ann Crouse
Potential for Incarceration
Parens Patriae
43. Who is in charge of staffing - calender - budget - and other material needs of the court room?
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Misdemeanor
Statue of Winchester
Court Administrator
44. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
Jurisdiction
Lexington - Concord
Indeterminate Sentencing
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
45. What is a local law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Chief
Arrangement
Vigilantes
Boston Massacre
46. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
Marbury versus Madison
Judicial Review
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
1383
47. What is the average budget of a local law enforcement agency?
Right away
Federal Court System
$1.7 million
Articles of Confederation
48. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
Formal Probation
Information
Loosely Coupled
Crime Control - Due Process
49. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
National Crime Information Center
Judicial - Executive
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
50. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?
Body - Amendments
County
Bench Trial
Very inactive