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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?
Federal Court System
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Parens Patriae
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
2. What are the oldest law enforcement agencies in the country?
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3. What does a mitigating factor make the report?
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Better
Precedent
Hoover
4. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?
F.B.I.
Stare Decisis
U.S. Federal District Courts
Due Process Phase
5. What are the two types of defense attorneys?
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Attorney General
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
6. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
Better
Discretion
Adversarial System
Mala en Se
7. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
U.S. Constitution
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Continue to another date
85%
8. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Generalists
Stare Decisis
Discretion
9. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
Loosely Coupled System
Mala Prohibita
830.1
U.S. Federal District Courts
10. What is the name for a felony complaint?
Incapaciation
Stare Decisis
Information
Yes
11. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Article III of the Constitution
Patrick Colquhoun
National Crime Information Center
12. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1987 as a supplement to UCRS?
Right away
Conditional Sentence
Tribal
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
13. What is the State Court System's court of last resort?
Broken Windows
Possecomintatus
State Supreme Court
Loosely Coupled
14. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
4th Amendment
15. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Body - Amendments
Better
State
16. 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
Very inactive
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Appeals
17. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?
Marbury versus Madison
Judiciary Act
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
18. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?
14
1382
Incapaciation
Due Process
19. What major 1829 English law created a centralized urban police force in London?
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
London Metropolitan Police Act
1977 Dixon Bill
Deterrence
20. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?
Aggravating - Mitigating
Sir Robert Peel
Court Room Work Group
Judicial - Executive
21. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
Loosely Coupled
Broken Windows
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
22. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
Generalists
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Retribution
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
23. What 1770 shooting incident heightened tensions between Boston colonists and newly arrived British soldiers?
Appeal
F.B.I.
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Boston Massacre
24. What is the Latin term that means evil or bad in itself?
Mala en Se
1 and 8
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
14
25. In which two locations did the actual shooting war begin between British soldiers and Colonial militia men?
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Lexington - Concord
Stare Decisis
Judicial System = Institutional System
26. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
King Chamberlain's Court
U.S. Marshall's
27. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
Stare Decisis
F.B.I.
Parens Patriae
Own Recognizance
28. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
Vigilantes
State
4th Amendment
50 - 25000
29. What 1838 Ohio State Supreme Court Case established the concept of Parens Patriae and no need for due process in juvenile matters?
Better
Mary Ann Crouse
Pendelton Act
Serpico
30. What federal law enforcement agency delegated peace officer powers to citizens during the era of the wild west?
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31. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?
Crime Control - Due Process
U.S. Postal Inspectors
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
14th Amendment
32. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
90%
State Supreme Court
Parens Patriae
33. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
None
Complaint
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
34. The Federal Court system was created through what?
Mala en Se
Petition
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Judiciary Act
35. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
John Marshall
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Stare Decisis
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
36. What Penal Code section states that the court may refer to probation for a report?
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Preliminary Hearing
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Body - Amendments
37. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Judicial - Executive
Magna Carta
Due Process
90%
38. The Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program motivated police to try what new procedures?
Superior Court
Community Sensitive Programs
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Makes deals and not go to trial
39. What is an offense that consists of illegal conduct but no jail time?
Discretion
Infraction
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
First Continental Congress
40. The average local law enforcement agency will often employ how many officers and serve what size population?
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
50 - 25000
Infraction
Article III of the Constitution
41. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?
All volunteers
Presentence Court Report
39
Judicial System = Institutional System
42. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?
Articles of Confederation
Nolo Contendre
Jurisdiction
Article III of the Constitution
43. Local California courts which handle misdemeanors - minor civil matters - and traffic violations are called what?
Indeterminate Sentencing
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Chief
Possecomintatus
44. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Conditional Sentence
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
45. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?
Constitutional Law
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Vigilantes
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
46. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
6th Amendment
Statue of Winchester
Superior Court
King Henry II
47. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?
Right away
Trial
14th Amendment
Assistant District Attorneys
48. What were minors who disobeyed orders of the Kings Chancery Court system called?
Incorrigibles
U.S. Marshall's
Adversarial System
Deterrence
49. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
1382
English Common Law
50. What does an aggravating factor make the report?
Life
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Discretion
Worse