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Criminal Justice 101
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1. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?
Stare Decisis
1 and 8
Very inactive
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2. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?
F.B.I
Crime Control Due Process
14
County
3. What is the average budget of a local law enforcement agency?
$1.7 million
Court Administrator
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Jurisdiction
4. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?
Pretrial Hearing
Court Administrator
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
17 -500
5. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
U.S. Constitution
1 and 8
Evaluation
Misdemeanor
6. In 1829 which English government employee pushed a new law which followed the ideas of Patrick Colquhoun?
Chief
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Attorney General
Sir Robert Peel
7. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
5th Amendment
Deterrence
Adversarial System
Information
8. What does a preliminary hearing determine?
Due Process Phase
Crime Control Due Process
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
9. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?
Superior Court
1 and 8
Potential for Incarceration
Discretion
10. The Federal Court system was created through what?
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Sheriff
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Judiciary Act
11. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
1382
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Court Administrator
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12. What two factors does a probation officer consider when writing the presentence report?
Aggravating - Mitigating
Crime Control Due Process
Punishment without trial
National Crime Information Center
13. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
Loosely Coupled System
Incorrigibles
Generalists
None
14. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?
Intermediate Courts
34
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Tribal
15. Where does a felony case begin?
Potential for Incarceration
Courts
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Secret Service
16. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?
Secret Service
Judicial System = Institutional System
Adversarial System
Article III of the Constitution
17. What federal law enforcement agency delegated peace officer powers to citizens during the era of the wild west?
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18. The Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program motivated police to try what new procedures?
State/Local Court System
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Felony
Community Sensitive Programs
19. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?
County
U.S. Constitution
Incapaciation
F.B.I.
20. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Vigilantes
Sworn - Non-sworn
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
21. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?
8th Amendment
Sworn - Non-sworn
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
U.S. Marshall's
22. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?
Bill of Rights
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Deterrence
Change
23. What does a mitigating factor make the report?
Better
85%
Mala Prohibita
Incorrigibles
24. What is the name for a juvenile complaint?
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Jurisdiction
Petition
Complaint
25. What major 1803 U.S. Supreme Court case established that the court would begin to interpret what the constitution was all about?
14th Amendment
Boston Massacre
Articles of Confederation
Marbury versus Madison
26. Who runs the N.C.I.C.?
F.B.I
6th Amendment
Better
Judicial/Legislative
27. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Misdemeanor
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
6th Amendment
Judicial - Executive
28. Generally speaking - what type of attorney is a prosecuting attorney?
Government Attorney
The Family Model
Courts
Incapaciation
29. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
Formal Probation
Sworn - Non-sworn
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Potential for Incarceration
30. Which 1760s British tax law placed tax quotes on all paper based products imported into the colonies?
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Judicial - Executive
Habeas Corpus
Stamp Act of 1765
31. Under English Common Law what was the general cut off age in distinguishing between those who could charged with felonies?
Judiciary Act
14
Superior Court
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32. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
State Supreme Court
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Trials
33. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
14
Stare Decisis
Evidence
4th Amendment
34. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?
Courts
Sworn - Non-sworn
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
35. Both felonies are misdemeanors are first filed as what?
Misdemeanor
Evidence
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Complaint
36. What 1865 federal law enforcement agency was initially responsible for excessive counterfeiting following the civil war?
Secret Service
Nolo Contendre
14th Amendment
Due Process
37. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
Parens Patriae
Due Process
4th Amendment
All volunteers
38. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
Judiciary Act
Courts
U.S. Marshall's
F.B.I.
39. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?
George Washington - John Adams
Evaluation
Life
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
40. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
Own Recognizance
Broken Windows
Mala Prohibita
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
41. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
None
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Evidence
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
42. What is a local law enforcement agency's head administrator?
U.S. Marshall's
Chief
8th Amendment
Original Jurisdiction
43. What is the State Court System's court of last resort?
1899 Illinois
State Supreme Court
39
U.S. Marshall's
44. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
Discretion
Community Orientated Policing Era
King Henry II
6th Amendment
45. What two things do military police entities possess?
Patronage
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Judicial System = Institutional System
U.S. Postal Inspectors
46. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?
Adversarial System
6th Amendment
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Original Jurisdiction
47. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?
Incorrigibles
Makes deals and not go to trial
5th Amendment
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
48. What 1770 shooting incident heightened tensions between Boston colonists and newly arrived British soldiers?
Boston Massacre
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Vigilantes
Lower Courts
49. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
4th Amendment
Lexington - Concord
Change
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
50. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
King John
Misdemeanor
Mala Prohibita
Vigilantes
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