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Criminal Justice 101
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1. Does a county law enforcement agency head administrator generally require law enforcement experience?
Yes
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
1977 Dixon Bill
Sheriff or Shireeve
2. What current California legal code did the Law of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses contribute to?
Body - Amendments
Prison Time - Death Sentence
The Penal Code
Preliminary Hearing
3. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
King John
Original Jurisdiction
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
4. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
Vigilantes
Judicial - Executive
Incorrigibles
Judiciary Act
5. What were minors who disobeyed orders of the Kings Chancery Court system called?
Generalists
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Incorrigibles
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
6. What is the name for a felony complaint?
14
Patronage
Information
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
7. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?
Indeterminate Sentencing
14
Stare Decisis
Articles of Confederation
8. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?
Intermediate Courts
Constitutional Law
Pretrial Hearing
London Metropolitan Police Act
9. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
1382
830.1
1383
17 -500
10. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
Loosely Coupled
Nolo Contendre
None
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
11. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Crime Control Due Process
Court Administrator
12. What was the name of the article which encouraged law enforcement not just to focus on crime - but the social factors of crime?
Broken Windows
1899 Illinois
The Penal Code
Mary Ann Crouse
13. What two things do military police entities possess?
Crime Control - Due Process
Adversarial System
Judicial System = Institutional System
Local level
14. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?
Complaint
Superior Court
Patronage and Corruption
Chief
15. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Article III of the Constitution
Attorney General
16. Who said - 'The police are the public and the public are the police'?
Petition
Boston Massacre
Discretion
Sir Robert Peel
17. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
5th Amendment
Life
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Judiciary Act
18. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?
Intermediate Courts
London Metropolitan Police Act
Special Police Force
Patronage and Corruption
19. What is the main criteria which determines whether a mater goes to a federal or state court?
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Stare Decisis
King Chamberlain's Court
20. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Felony
Adversarial System
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
21. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
Jurisdiction
Generalists
Nolo Contendre
Appeals
22. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?
Body - Amendments
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
23. Who is referred to as the father of probation?
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Original Jurisdiction
Judicial System = Institutional System
John Augustus
24. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?
Precedent
Marbury versus Madison
Sheriff
U.S. Federal District Courts
25. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
6th Amendment
U.S. Court of Appeals
First Continental Congress
26. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
Discretion
Retribution
Better
Sworn - Non-sworn
27. What English Common Law court system could arguably be seen as the world's first dedicated juvenile court?
28. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
17 -500
Probation Officer
Serpico
29. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?
English Common Law
State
Attorney General
King John
30. Both felonies are misdemeanors are first filed as what?
Stare Decisis
Judiciary Act
Patrick Colquhoun
Complaint
31. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
17 -500
Sworn - Non-sworn
London Metropolitan Police Act
32. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?
Magna Carta
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Crime Control Due Process
National Crime Information Center
33. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
8th Amendment
34. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?
Adversarial System
Body - Amendments
Courts
Petition
35. What major 1803 U.S. Supreme Court case established that the court would begin to interpret what the constitution was all about?
Marbury versus Madison
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Crime Control - Due Process
14
36. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?
John Marshall
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Appeal
17 -500
37. What are the five levels of force among agencies?
Preliminary Hearing
State
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Potential for Incarceration
38. What 1838 Ohio State Supreme Court Case established the concept of Parens Patriae and no need for due process in juvenile matters?
Mary Ann Crouse
Loosely Coupled System
Boston Massacre
Felony
39. In Orange County - what type of prosecuting attorneys handle the day to day issues in the court room?
Assistant District Attorneys
14
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Patrick Colquhoun
40. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Possecomintatus
State
U.S. Postal Inspectors
41. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?
Judiciary Act
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
F.B.I.
Jurisdiction
42. What Penal Code section states that the court may refer to probation for a report?
6th Amendment
17 -500
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
43. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
State/Local Court System
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Sworn - Non-sworn
Trials
44. How many states use the death penalty?
George Washington - John Adams
34
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
45. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Secret Service
Body - Amendments
Judicial - Executive
6th Amendment
46. What is another term for informal probation?
Conditional Sentence
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
50 - 25000
1382
47. The three federal courts are known as what?
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Constitutional Law
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
U.S. Court of Appeals
48. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
Courts
50 - 25000
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Body - Amendments
49. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
Limited
Sir Robert Peel
Probation Officer
Appeals
50. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?
4th Amendment
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Tribal
Sheriff or Shireeve