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Criminal Justice 101
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?
4th Amendment
Habeas Corpus
Attorney General
U.S. Marshall's
2. Who said - 'The police are the public and the public are the police'?
Sir Robert Peel
Appeals
Original Jurisdiction
County
3. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
Special Police Force
Tribal
U.S. Constitution
17 -500
4. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
State
The Penal Code
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Sheriff
5. What is a local law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Crime Control - Due Process
14th Amendment
Chief
Felony
6. What major 1829 English law created a centralized urban police force in London?
London Metropolitan Police Act
Miranda versus Arizona
U.S. Constitution
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
7. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
Judiciary Act
Loosely Coupled
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Nolo Contendre
8. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?
King Henry II
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
County
1899 Illinois
9. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
John Augustus
Preliminary Hearing
Magna Carta
National Crime Information Center
10. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?
U.S. Court of Appeals
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Pretrial Hearing
County
11. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
Parens Patriae
Discretion
Community Orientated Policing Era
Potential for Incarceration
12. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?
The Family Model
U.S. Federal District Courts
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Constitutional Law
13. What was the original staffing of the U.S. Supreme Court?
17 -500
Hoover
Continue to another date
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
14. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
Conditional Sentence
None
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Sir Robert Peel
15. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
Presentence Court Report
Makes deals and not go to trial
John Augustus
Serpico
16. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?
State/Local Court System
1 and 8
Broken Windows
1903
17. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
F.B.I.
Pendelton Act
$1.7 million
18. Who is in charge of staffing - calender - budget - and other material needs of the court room?
Court Administrator
King Chamberlain's Court
Original Jurisdiction
Courts
19. What concept discusses 'an eye for an eye'?
Judicial System = Institutional System
U.S. Constitution
Retribution
Preliminary Hearing
20. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
Change
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Misdemeanor
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
21. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?
Pendelton Act
Generalists
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Sheriff
22. Which of the five major phases in the criminal justice system since 1965 produced major case law?
Due Process Phase
90%
Arrangement
Community Sensitive Programs
23. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
1977 Dixon Bill
Marbury versus Madison
Preliminary Hearing
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
24. What was name of the era which was distinguished by the Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program?
State/Local Court System
Conditional Sentence
Community Orientated Policing Era
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
25. Who runs the N.C.I.C.?
F.B.I
Mala Prohibita
$1.7 million
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
26. What Latin term means - 'father or parent of the country?'
Parens Patriae
U.S. Constitution
First Continental Congress
Pendelton Act
27. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Punishment without trial
Court Administrator
U.S. Federal District Courts
Judicial - Executive
28. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
Adversarial System
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
14th Amendment
Arrangement
29. The Federal Court system was created through what?
Information
Sheriff or Shireeve
Sir Robert Peel
Judiciary Act
30. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
U.S. Federal District Courts
Due Process Phase
5th Amendment
31. What does a mitigating factor make the report?
830.1
Possecomintatus
Hoover
Better
32. What west coast supreme court case in 1876 further established the philosophy of Parens Patriae and no due process for juveniles?
6th Amendment
Retribution
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Ah Peen
33. What is the point of a second preliminary hearing?
Assistant District Attorneys
Arrangement
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Ah Peen
34. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Presentence Court Report
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Appeal
35. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Own Recognizance
Generalists
Local level
36. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?
English Common Law
Information
Magna Carta
Incorrigibles
37. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
Evidence
Yes
Pretrial Hearing
Potential for Incarceration
38. What does ex-post facto law relate to?
Makes deals and not go to trial
Future laws not passed yet
Superior Court
Statue of Winchester
39. What is another term for informal probation?
Judicial - Executive
Limited
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Conditional Sentence
40. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?
Appeal
Hoover
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Judiciary Act
41. During the Revolutionary War what major document helped to guide the colonies in fighting their war against Britain?
Statue of Winchester
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
King John
Articles of Confederation
42. What concepts attempts to protect society by isolating others?
Right away
Appeal
Aggravating - Mitigating
Incapaciation
43. In which two locations did the actual shooting war begin between British soldiers and Colonial militia men?
Lexington - Concord
4th Amendment
U.S. Court of Appeals
Bill of Rights
44. What is the Latin term that means evil or bad in itself?
Mala en Se
Incapaciation
George Washington - John Adams
Sheriff
45. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
85%
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
46. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?
Appeals
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Sworn - Non-sworn
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
47. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Habeas Corpus
Adversarial System
Local level
48. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
Judiciary Act
Felony
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Prison Time - Death Sentence
49. Other then UCRS and NIBRS - what entities compile information about crime in the country?
Complaint
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Community Orientated Policing Era
1203(b)(1) - Felony
50. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
Lower Courts
Formal Probation
Stare Decisis
King Chamberlain's Court