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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What do bills of attainer relate to?
50 - 25000
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Punishment without trial
1903
2. What is the name for a juvenile complaint?
Petition
Judiciary Act
Loosely Coupled System
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
3. What 1770 shooting incident heightened tensions between Boston colonists and newly arrived British soldiers?
Boston Massacre
Judicial System = Institutional System
1899 Illinois
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
4. What were minors who disobeyed orders of the Kings Chancery Court system called?
Stare Decisis
George Washington - John Adams
Infraction
Incorrigibles
5. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Change
Judicial/Legislative
Superior Court
6. What are the two ancient codes that contributed to our current legal system?
King Henry II
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Punishment without trial
7. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?
Crime Control Due Process
Judiciary Act
Constitutional Law
King Henry II
8. What current California legal code did the Law of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses contribute to?
Own Recognizance
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Indeterminate Sentencing
The Penal Code
9. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?
Judicial/Legislative
Retribution
Adversarial System
State
10. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?
Stare Decisis
Conditional Sentence
U.S. Constitution
John Marshall
11. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
Mala Prohibita
Preliminary Hearing
Article III of the Constitution
F.B.I.
12. What major 1829 English law created a centralized urban police force in London?
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Jurisdiction
14
London Metropolitan Police Act
13. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
U.S. Constitution
$1.7 million
Miranda versus Arizona
14. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?
Due Process Phase
Pretrial Hearing
King John
Sheriff or Shireeve
15. What 1883 federal law stressed the need for a civil service system based upon merit?
The Penal Code
Pendelton Act
Tribal
Miranda versus Arizona
16. What does an aggravating factor make the report?
The Family Model
Pretrial Hearing
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Worse
17. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?
Sheriff
90%
Vigilantes
1 and 8
18. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?
Own Recognizance
14
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Pretrial Hearing
19. What was the name of the group of people who went to Philadelphia in 1774 in order to discuss their unhappiness with Britain and its taxes?
First Continental Congress
1977 Dixon Bill
Judicial - Executive
Deterrence
20. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?
Appeal
Possecomintatus
1 and 8
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
21. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?
Mala Prohibita
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
14th Amendment
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
22. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
Magna Carta
Appeal
Yes
85%
23. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
Appeal
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Information
None
24. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Local level
Judicial/Legislative
Hoover
25. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
Probation Officer
Judiciary Act
Trial
Secret Service
26. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
8th Amendment
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Sir Robert Peel
27. What concepts attempts to protect society by isolating others?
Judicial - Executive
Broken Windows
Incapaciation
All volunteers
28. What do the majority of cases going into the U.S. District Court involve?
Discretion
Ah Peen
King Chamberlain's Court
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
29. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?
Sheriff
Precedent
U.S. Marshall's
Future laws not passed yet
30. What law enforcement agency maintains the largest training academy in the U.S.?
F.B.I.
Limited
State/Local Court System
Preliminary Hearing
31. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
Appeals
Stars
Yes
17 -500
32. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
Deterrence
Evidence
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
F.B.I.
33. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?
Intermediate Courts
Incapaciation
State
Lower Courts
34. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?
Arrangement
4th Amendment
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Sir Robert Peel
35. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?
Patronage and Corruption
Conditional Sentence
Discretion
Pendelton Act
36. How is a jury panel selected?
Intermediate Courts
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Body - Amendments
37. What does ex-post facto law relate to?
Sir Robert Peel
Jurisdiction
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Future laws not passed yet
38. What does a mitigating factor make the report?
Better
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Judiciary Act
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
39. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
Probation Officer
Adversarial System
U.S. Court of Appeals
830.1
40. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Right away
Discretion
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
41. The Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program motivated police to try what new procedures?
F.B.I.
Community Sensitive Programs
Original Jurisdiction
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
42. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Lower Courts
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Vigilantes
43. What was the name of the article which encouraged law enforcement not just to focus on crime - but the social factors of crime?
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Broken Windows
State
Assistant District Attorneys
44. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
English Common Law
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Limited
Original Jurisdiction
45. After the U.S. Constitution was ratified - what type of court system did the U.S. realize it needed to have?
Information
Sir Robert Peel
Federal Court System
Mary Ann Crouse
46. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?
Tribal
Crime Control - Due Process
Pretrial Hearing
Aggravating - Mitigating
47. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
Judicial Review
Bill of Rights
Articles of Confederation
1382
48. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
Magna Carta
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Potential for Incarceration
Generalists
49. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Makes deals and not go to trial
Intermediate Courts
Very inactive
50. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?
17 -500
State
Crime Control Due Process
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
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