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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
39
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Probation Officer
2. Which of the five major phases in the criminal justice system since 1965 produced major case law?
Special Police Force
U.S. Court of Appeals
Due Process Phase
Tribal
3. What were minors who disobeyed orders of the Kings Chancery Court system called?
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Incorrigibles
Judicial System = Institutional System
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
4. Who is referred to as the father of probation?
Misdemeanor
John Augustus
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Punishment without trial
5. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
U.S. Constitution
Due Process Phase
Tribal
Lexington - Concord
6. What federal law enforcement agency delegated peace officer powers to citizens during the era of the wild west?
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7. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?
Body - Amendments
State
Patronage and Corruption
Pretrial Hearing
8. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
Change
All volunteers
1382
Judiciary Act
9. What are the oldest law enforcement agencies in the country?
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10. What Penal Code section states that the court may refer to probation for a report?
8th Amendment
U.S. Marshall's
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Very inactive
11. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
830.1
Dual System
14
12. In 1829 which English government employee pushed a new law which followed the ideas of Patrick Colquhoun?
Discretion
Tribal
Government Attorney
Sir Robert Peel
13. What type of bodies do our current laws come from?
London Metropolitan Police Act
Judicial/Legislative
Stars
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
14. What is the Latin term that means evil or bad in itself?
Mala en Se
Formal Probation
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Appeal
15. What is meant by inferior courts?
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Felony
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Lower Courts
16. What Penal Code section states that the court shall refer to probation for a report?
$1.7 million
Generalists
Stare Decisis
1203(b)(1) - Felony
17. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?
Government Attorney
Attorney General
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Hoover
18. Jail time - restitution - contact restrictions - drug testing - searches and seizures - employment verification - and counseling can be terms of what?
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Incapaciation
Formal Probation
830.1
19. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
Probation Officer
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Misdemeanor
Stars
20. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
State
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Article III of the Constitution
21. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?
Arrangement
$1.7 million
Crime Control Due Process
1903
22. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?
Crime Control - Due Process
English Common Law
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Community Sensitive Programs
23. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?
14
85%
1899 Illinois
Habeas Corpus
24. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
Superior Court
F.B.I.
17 -500
Nolo Contendre
25. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
Judicial System = Institutional System
90 Million
Arrangement
Judicial Review
26. Who runs the N.C.I.C.?
U.S. Constitution
F.B.I
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Prison Time - Death Sentence
27. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?
Judiciary Act
Intermediate Courts
State/Local Court System
Judicial - Executive
28. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?
Precedent
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
King Henry II
29. What are the four Cs of the criminal justice system?
Precedent
County
All volunteers
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
30. What does N.C.I.C. stand for?
National Crime Information Center
State
Constitutional Law
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
31. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
County
90 Million
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
32. Which 1760s British tax law placed tax quotes on all paper based products imported into the colonies?
Sworn - Non-sworn
English Common Law
Patrick Colquhoun
Stamp Act of 1765
33. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?
King Henry II
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Courts
34. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
County
Better
Bill of Rights
Tribal
35. What is the point of a second preliminary hearing?
State
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Information
Sir Robert Peel
36. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?
Court Administrator
Retribution
6th Amendment
Worse
37. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
Loosely Coupled
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Original Jurisdiction
1383
38. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?
Superior Court
Aggravating - Mitigating
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Patronage and Corruption
39. What was the name of the article which encouraged law enforcement not just to focus on crime - but the social factors of crime?
Stamp Act of 1765
Broken Windows
Better
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
40. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
Preliminary Hearing
Boston Massacre
85%
Patrick Colquhoun
41. What concepts attempts to protect society by isolating others?
Appeal
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Incapaciation
42. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
F.B.I.
London Metropolitan Police Act
Jurisdiction
43. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?
Mala en Se
Incorrigibles
Sheriff or Shireeve
17
44. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?
Stare Decisis
Life
Habeas Corpus
Boston Massacre
45. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?
U.S. Constitution
Boston Massacre
State
Lexington - Concord
46. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Judicial Review
Adversarial System
Community Orientated Policing Era
47. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
F.B.I
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
1903
Local level
48. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?
U.S. Marshall's
F.B.I.
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
49. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?
Discretion
County
Own Recognizance
Preliminary Hearing
50. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?
Generalists
Patronage
Own Recognizance
U.S. Postal Inspectors
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