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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1930?
17 -500
Hoover
Constitutional Law
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
2. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
U.S. Marshall's
Judicial - Executive
Stamp Act of 1765
3. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
8th Amendment
Statue of Winchester
Government Attorney
1903
4. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Preliminary Hearing
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
5. What is discovery?
Evidence
Makes deals and not go to trial
Bill of Rights
National Crime Information Center
6. The average local law enforcement agency will often employ how many officers and serve what size population?
U.S. Federal District Courts
50 - 25000
Appeal
14
7. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
1899 Illinois
Judicial System = Institutional System
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Misdemeanor
8. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?
U.S. Constitution
Sir Robert Peel
Attorney General
Precedent
9. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?
Serpico
Indeterminate Sentencing
Felony
Lower Courts
10. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Sheriff or Shireeve
1899 Illinois
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
11. What major 1803 U.S. Supreme Court case established that the court would begin to interpret what the constitution was all about?
14
First Continental Congress
6th Amendment
Marbury versus Madison
12. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?
Patronage
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Broken Windows
13. What Penal Code section states that the court shall refer to probation for a report?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Aggravating - Mitigating
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
14. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
90 Million
Change
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Mala Prohibita
15. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?
Court Administrator
Change
Article III of the Constitution
Superior Court
16. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
Trials
Stare Decisis
State
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
17. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?
Life
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Conditional Sentence
17
18. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?
Constitutional Law
6th Amendment
Stare Decisis
Judiciary Act
19. Both felonies are misdemeanors are first filed as what?
Loosely Coupled System
Due Process Phase
King John
Complaint
20. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Trials
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Special Police Force
21. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
U.S. Court of Appeals
Bill of Rights
Assistant District Attorneys
22. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?
Presentence Court Report
Potential for Incarceration
John Marshall
County
23. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
5th Amendment
Patronage and Corruption
Mala Prohibita
24. In 1829 which English government employee pushed a new law which followed the ideas of Patrick Colquhoun?
Sir Robert Peel
Very inactive
Hoover
90 Million
25. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
Own Recognizance
Judicial/Legislative
5th Amendment
Vigilantes
26. What two factors does a probation officer consider when writing the presentence report?
U.S. Federal District Courts
Aggravating - Mitigating
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
27. What were minors who disobeyed orders of the Kings Chancery Court system called?
Life
Original Jurisdiction
Continue to another date
Incorrigibles
28. What is the name for a felony complaint?
Information
1977 Dixon Bill
Pendelton Act
County
29. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
Change
Statue of Winchester
All volunteers
Incorrigibles
30. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?
Judiciary Act
4th Amendment
State/Local Court System
Information
31. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?
Ah Peen
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Intermediate Courts
Dual System
32. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?
14th Amendment
Life
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Judicial/Legislative
33. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
Lower Courts
Discretion
F.B.I.
Local level
34. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
Habeas Corpus
F.B.I.
Loosely Coupled System
King John
35. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
John Marshall
Discretion
Attorney General
Misdemeanor
36. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
U.S. Federal District Courts
Better
Possecomintatus
37. What concepts attempts to protect society by isolating others?
Incapaciation
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Dual System
Lexington - Concord
38. How long is a federal judge's term of office for?
Judiciary Act
Life
Patronage
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
39. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
Stare Decisis
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Incorrigibles
Article III of the Constitution
40. 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?
Dual System
17 -500
Marbury versus Madison
First Continental Congress
41. 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. Federal District Courts
Incapaciation
English Common Law
42. After the U.S. Constitution was ratified - what type of court system did the U.S. realize it needed to have?
Federal Court System
State Supreme Court
John Marshall
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
43. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
1383
Lexington - Concord
90%
Sheriff
44. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?
Evaluation
Judicial - Executive
King Chamberlain's Court
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
45. When pleading guilty at a felony arrangement - what does the judge generally do for sentencing?
Continue to another date
Life
Tribal
King Henry II
46. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?
Patronage
14
6th Amendment
39
47. Who is in charge of staffing - calender - budget - and other material needs of the court room?
Better
Judicial System = Institutional System
Court Administrator
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
48. What was name of the era which was distinguished by the Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program?
Community Orientated Policing Era
F.B.I.
Loosely Coupled
Deterrence
49. Where does a felony case begin?
Stars
Original Jurisdiction
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Arrangement
50. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?
Limited
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Dual System
Courts
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