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Criminal Justice 101
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1. After the U.S. Constitution was ratified - what type of court system did the U.S. realize it needed to have?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Federal Court System
Dual System
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
2. What is meant by inferior courts?
1977 Dixon Bill
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Trial
Lower Courts
3. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
50 - 25000
Pretrial Hearing
U.S. Court of Appeals
39
4. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?
90%
Boston Massacre
Felony
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
5. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
830.1
14
Parens Patriae
Change
6. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Judicial/Legislative
Hoover
Original Jurisdiction
7. Where does a felony case begin?
Article III of the Constitution
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Chief
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
8. Other then UCRS and NIBRS - what entities compile information about crime in the country?
Stare Decisis
Presentence Court Report
Original Jurisdiction
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
9. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?
Incorrigibles
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Community Sensitive Programs
10. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?
1382
All volunteers
Mala en Se
State/Local Court System
11. What federal law enforcement agency delegated peace officer powers to citizens during the era of the wild west?
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12. What is a county law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Sheriff
First Continental Congress
Retribution
Broken Windows
13. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
The Family Model
U.S. Postal Inspectors
1382
Makes deals and not go to trial
14. What is another term for informal probation?
Loosely Coupled
Article III of the Constitution
Conditional Sentence
Superior Court
15. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?
Sworn - Non-sworn
Courts
Mala Prohibita
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
16. Which 1760s British tax law placed tax quotes on all paper based products imported into the colonies?
Adversarial System
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Stamp Act of 1765
Loosely Coupled
17. In 1789 which London magistrate stressed the need for a 'centralized' law enforcement agency?
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Patrick Colquhoun
Continue to another date
State
18. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Appeal
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Very inactive
19. Negative political influence and corruption impacting 19th century U.S. police agencies was called what?
Patronage
Limited
Presentence Court Report
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
20. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Dual System
Incapaciation
1899 Illinois
21. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
Adversarial System
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Felony
22. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?
Sheriff or Shireeve
Appeals
Habeas Corpus
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
23. Who said - 'The police are the public and the public are the police'?
Sir Robert Peel
Pretrial Hearing
Deterrence
Sheriff
24. How is a jury panel selected?
Boston Massacre
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Sworn - Non-sworn
25. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Articles of Confederation
Arrangement
Original Jurisdiction
26. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?
1903
1977 Dixon Bill
Arrangement
Limited
27. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
Indeterminate Sentencing
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
U.S. Constitution
85%
28. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?
Judicial - Executive
English Common Law
Court Room Work Group
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
29. What legal model first attempted the concept of rehabilitation and resocialization?
The Family Model
Due Process
Special Police Force
90 Million
30. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
Nolo Contendre
Potential for Incarceration
4th Amendment
Parens Patriae
31. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
F.B.I.
Hoover
Infraction
All volunteers
32. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?
Information
Pretrial Hearing
Arrangement
17 -500
33. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Misdemeanor
All volunteers
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
34. What is an offense that consists of illegal conduct but no jail time?
Infraction
Own Recognizance
Assistant District Attorneys
1899 Illinois
35. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?
Special Police Force
King John
Tribal
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
36. What Latin term means great paper?
Marbury versus Madison
Magna Carta
King Chamberlain's Court
Life
37. What are the four Cs of the criminal justice system?
Marbury versus Madison
Mala Prohibita
First Continental Congress
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
38. What does an aggravating factor make the report?
Sir Robert Peel
Worse
Precedent
Petition
39. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?
Retribution
Vigilantes
Stare Decisis
King Henry II
40. The power of the U.S. Supreme Court to interpret what the constitution says and means - via case law - is known as what?
Judicial Review
Original Jurisdiction
Boston Massacre
Judiciary Act
41. What do bills of attainer relate to?
Secret Service
Community Sensitive Programs
Judicial Review
Punishment without trial
42. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
14
Possecomintatus
Tribal
43. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?
1382
830.1
U.S. Federal District Courts
State
44. What law enforcement agency maintains the largest training academy in the U.S.?
The Penal Code
Retribution
F.B.I.
Pendelton Act
45. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?
Formal Probation
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Generalists
Precedent
46. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Conditional Sentence
Vigilantes
Bench Trial
47. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?
Jurisdiction
Judicial Review
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
State
48. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?
Stamp Act of 1765
Secret Service
Judicial - Executive
U.S. Postal Inspectors
49. What does a mitigating factor make the report?
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Superior Court
Better
50. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?
English Common Law
4th Amendment
Complaint
Hoover