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Criminal Justice 101
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1. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?
Special Police Force
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Felony
Life
2. What English Common Law court system could arguably be seen as the world's first dedicated juvenile court?
3. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?
Pendelton Act
90%
Incapaciation
Worse
4. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?
Conditional Sentence
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Adversarial System
Government Attorney
5. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
17 -500
830.1
Local level
Appeal
6. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
All volunteers
U.S. Marshall's
Petition
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
7. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
Punishment without trial
90 Million
14th Amendment
Parens Patriae
8. In 1789 which London magistrate stressed the need for a 'centralized' law enforcement agency?
Government Attorney
Patrick Colquhoun
Preliminary Hearing
Sir Robert Peel
9. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?
17 -500
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Continue to another date
Courts
10. The average local law enforcement agency will often employ how many officers and serve what size population?
50 - 25000
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
King John
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
11. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?
King Henry II
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Patronage and Corruption
Right away
12. What does a mitigating factor make the report?
Better
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Pendelton Act
1 and 8
13. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
Information
Probation Officer
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Preliminary Hearing
14. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
Judicial System = Institutional System
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Judiciary Act
Felony
15. What concepts attempts to protect society by isolating others?
Incapaciation
State
Preliminary Hearing
1 and 8
16. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
1903
Pretrial Hearing
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
17. How is a jury panel selected?
King Henry II
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Incorrigibles
Punishment without trial
18. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
Judiciary Act
Boston Massacre
Evaluation
Petition
19. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
U.S. Court of Appeals
Conditional Sentence
20. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
1383
4th Amendment
Jurisdiction
Possecomintatus
21. What is the State Court System's court of last resort?
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Generalists
State Supreme Court
22. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
Right away
Presentence Court Report
85%
Statue of Winchester
23. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
1382
F.B.I.
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Appeals
24. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
Chief
Life
Generalists
Petition
25. How long is a federal judge's term of office for?
U.S. Court of Appeals
Life
F.B.I
6th Amendment
26. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
Mala Prohibita
Judicial/Legislative
14
17 -500
27. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?
Incapaciation
Community Sensitive Programs
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Judicial Review
28. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?
Own Recognizance
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Continue to another date
Arrangement
29. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Magna Carta
Future laws not passed yet
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
30. What Penal Code section states that the court shall refer to probation for a report?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Tribal
London Metropolitan Police Act
Own Recognizance
31. What was the original staffing of the U.S. Supreme Court?
Articles of Confederation
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Generalists
Magna Carta
32. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
85%
Hoover
Yes
33. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?
Superior Court
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
14
Misdemeanor
34. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
Sir Robert Peel
Judicial - Executive
Formal Probation
Misdemeanor
35. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
The Family Model
50 - 25000
Vigilantes
Trials
36. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?
Mala en Se
Community Orientated Policing Era
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
17
37. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1987 as a supplement to UCRS?
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Stamp Act of 1765
Appeal
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
38. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
17 -500
14
Bill of Rights
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
39. Both felonies are misdemeanors are first filed as what?
Own Recognizance
Complaint
Right away
Very inactive
40. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?
Appeal
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Incapaciation
U.S. Court of Appeals
41. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
Judicial Review
85%
1899 Illinois
The Penal Code
42. Does a county law enforcement agency head administrator generally require law enforcement experience?
Incapaciation
Yes
Right away
Loosely Coupled System
43. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Patronage and Corruption
Complaint
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
44. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
U.S. Marshall's
Discretion
Bill of Rights
Possecomintatus
45. During the Revolutionary War what major document helped to guide the colonies in fighting their war against Britain?
Articles of Confederation
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Federal Court System
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
46. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?
Lexington - Concord
Makes deals and not go to trial
Crime Control - Due Process
Constitutional Law
47. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?
1 and 8
Trial
Stare Decisis
Probation Officer
48. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?
U.S. Federal District Courts
Miranda versus Arizona
Habeas Corpus
Ah Peen
49. What is the name for a felony complaint?
The Penal Code
Information
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Courts
50. Generally speaking - what type of attorney is a prosecuting attorney?
Chief
Preliminary Hearing
Government Attorney
Community Orientated Policing Era