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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
1382
King Henry II
2. Does a county law enforcement agency head administrator generally require law enforcement experience?
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Evaluation
Yes
3. What are the two types of defense attorneys?
Community Sensitive Programs
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Formal Probation
5th Amendment
4. What is the Latin term that means evil or bad in itself?
Vigilantes
Incapaciation
1903
Mala en Se
5. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Article III of the Constitution
None
Judicial - Executive
Courts
6. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
Statue of Winchester
6th Amendment
Retribution
1383
7. What is an offense that consists of illegal conduct but no jail time?
Continue to another date
Worse
Infraction
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
8. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?
County
Body - Amendments
Misdemeanor
Articles of Confederation
9. What Penal Code section states that the court may refer to probation for a report?
Sir Robert Peel
Lexington - Concord
Evaluation
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
10. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?
Tribal
Very inactive
14
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
11. What does a preliminary hearing determine?
Loosely Coupled
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Indeterminate Sentencing
John Augustus
12. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
Patrick Colquhoun
Original Jurisdiction
Judiciary Act
1382
13. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?
F.B.I
Felony
King Henry II
Articles of Confederation
14. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?
Evaluation
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
$1.7 million
Lower Courts
15. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
34
U.S. Constitution
Sheriff
Superior Court
16. What two things do military police entities possess?
U.S. Marshall's
Adversarial System
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Judicial System = Institutional System
17. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
U.S. Constitution
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Body - Amendments
18. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
U.S. Federal District Courts
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Incapaciation
Misdemeanor
19. What English Common Law court system could arguably be seen as the world's first dedicated juvenile court?
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20. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
5th Amendment
King Chamberlain's Court
Limited
Patronage
21. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
The Family Model
Miranda versus Arizona
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
22. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Stare Decisis
Court Room Work Group
23. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?
Probation Officer
1977 Dixon Bill
Arrangement
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
24. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
Nolo Contendre
Preliminary Hearing
John Augustus
Courts
25. What 1883 federal law stressed the need for a civil service system based upon merit?
Pendelton Act
Presentence Court Report
State Supreme Court
Government Attorney
26. How many states use the death penalty?
34
Stamp Act of 1765
14
Sir Robert Peel
27. After the U.S. Constitution was ratified - what type of court system did the U.S. realize it needed to have?
Federal Court System
U.S. Federal District Courts
Body - Amendments
Serpico
28. Who runs the N.C.I.C.?
F.B.I
Judiciary Act
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
London Metropolitan Police Act
29. Negative political influence and corruption impacting 19th century U.S. police agencies was called what?
The Family Model
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Patronage
U.S. Federal District Courts
30. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?
State Supreme Court
Article III of the Constitution
17 -500
National Crime Information Center
31. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?
Sheriff
Jurisdiction
5th Amendment
Yes
32. What are the four Cs of the criminal justice system?
Information
Original Jurisdiction
Indeterminate Sentencing
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
33. Under English Common Law what was the general cut off age in distinguishing between those who could charged with felonies?
4th Amendment
14
F.B.I.
Judicial Review
34. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?
Information
Probation Officer
Habeas Corpus
4th Amendment
35. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?
1 and 8
Crime Control Due Process
County
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
36. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
Community Sensitive Programs
Judicial/Legislative
Generalists
Limited
37. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?
Pretrial Hearing
Prison Time - Death Sentence
All volunteers
39
38. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?
National Crime Information Center
Judicial/Legislative
Vigilantes
Crime Control Due Process
39. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
None
All volunteers
Loosely Coupled
40. What was the name of the article which encouraged law enforcement not just to focus on crime - but the social factors of crime?
Hoover
Evidence
Broken Windows
Worse
41. What major 1803 U.S. Supreme Court case established that the court would begin to interpret what the constitution was all about?
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Marbury versus Madison
Local level
Incapaciation
42. Which 1760s British tax law placed tax quotes on all paper based products imported into the colonies?
1 and 8
Stamp Act of 1765
1382
King John
43. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?
14
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Courts
Loosely Coupled
44. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?
1899 Illinois
English Common Law
Appeals
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
45. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1930?
Tribal
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Crime Control - Due Process
English Common Law
46. What is the name for a felony complaint?
Adversarial System
Complaint
14
Information
47. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
Special Police Force
Parens Patriae
Vigilantes
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
48. Where does a felony case begin?
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Appeal
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
49. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?
Adversarial System
Right away
Patrick Colquhoun
State
50. The average local law enforcement agency will often employ how many officers and serve what size population?
50 - 25000
Stare Decisis
Worse
Dual System