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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
Hoover
Deterrence
Judiciary Act
1382
2. What is a county law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Local level
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Sheriff
3. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?
Articles of Confederation
17
National Crime Information Center
Pretrial Hearing
4. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
Aggravating - Mitigating
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
All volunteers
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
5. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?
Felony
Judicial/Legislative
County
Superior Court
6. In Orange County - what type of prosecuting attorneys handle the day to day issues in the court room?
Tribal
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Attorney General
Assistant District Attorneys
7. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Deterrence
Constitutional Law
8. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
Crime Control Due Process
Information
Punishment without trial
830.1
9. How long is a federal judge's term of office for?
Miranda versus Arizona
Life
Courts
Attorney General
10. Which 1760s British tax law placed tax quotes on all paper based products imported into the colonies?
Loosely Coupled
Assistant District Attorneys
Stamp Act of 1765
Adversarial System
11. Who is referred to as the father of probation?
Evidence
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
State
John Augustus
12. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
County
Pretrial Hearing
Judicial - Executive
Indeterminate Sentencing
13. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
State
17 -500
Nolo Contendre
14. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
The Penal Code
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Stars
15. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Possecomintatus
Felony
16. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
State Supreme Court
Preliminary Hearing
4th Amendment
17. What type of bodies do our current laws come from?
Judicial/Legislative
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Judicial System = Institutional System
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
18. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?
Trial
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Courts
Stars
19. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?
Felony
Trial
State
Miranda versus Arizona
20. What does O.R. mean?
Trials
Possecomintatus
Own Recognizance
Loosely Coupled
21. What is meant by inferior courts?
Formal Probation
Habeas Corpus
Lower Courts
Loosely Coupled
22. What 1770 shooting incident heightened tensions between Boston colonists and newly arrived British soldiers?
1899 Illinois
London Metropolitan Police Act
County
Boston Massacre
23. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?
Punishment without trial
14th Amendment
1383
Judicial System = Institutional System
24. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Adversarial System
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
5th Amendment
25. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?
90%
Miranda versus Arizona
Indeterminate Sentencing
14th Amendment
26. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Pretrial Hearing
Misdemeanor
Hoover
27. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?
Superior Court
Evaluation
John Marshall
Secret Service
28. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Boston Massacre
14
Conditional Sentence
29. What is the average budget of a local law enforcement agency?
Sir Robert Peel
Generalists
Federal Court System
$1.7 million
30. What Penal Code section states that the court may refer to probation for a report?
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
F.B.I.
Lexington - Concord
Information
31. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
F.B.I
Discretion
Judicial System = Institutional System
U.S. Postal Inspectors
32. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?
Bench Trial
Aggravating - Mitigating
U.S. Postal Inspectors
King Chamberlain's Court
33. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?
Article III of the Constitution
50 - 25000
Mala Prohibita
John Marshall
34. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
Due Process
Habeas Corpus
Incapaciation
Judicial Review
35. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?
Evidence
Discretion
Precedent
Crime Control Due Process
36. What current California legal code did the Law of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses contribute to?
Secret Service
The Penal Code
Due Process Phase
English Common Law
37. What are the two ancient codes that contributed to our current legal system?
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Tribal
Courts
38. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Complaint
Tribal
Arrangement
39. What does ex-post facto law relate to?
None
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Sir Robert Peel
Future laws not passed yet
40. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?
Secret Service
Appeal
Habeas Corpus
Complaint
41. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Sir Robert Peel
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
42. What is the point of a second preliminary hearing?
Trial
6th Amendment
Limited
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
43. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
85%
6th Amendment
50 - 25000
F.B.I.
44. What west coast supreme court case in 1876 further established the philosophy of Parens Patriae and no due process for juveniles?
Ah Peen
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
King Henry II
Incorrigibles
45. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
U.S. Court of Appeals
34
Serpico
Loosely Coupled System
46. Under English Common Law what was the general cut off age in distinguishing between those who could charged with felonies?
Secret Service
State
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
14
47. What major 1803 U.S. Supreme Court case established that the court would begin to interpret what the constitution was all about?
Nolo Contendre
State
Marbury versus Madison
39
48. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
Discretion
John Augustus
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Bench Trial
49. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
Statue of Winchester
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Precedent
Evaluation
50. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?
Felony
Sheriff or Shireeve
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision