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Criminal Justice 101
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What does an aggravating factor make the report?
U.S. Marshall's
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Worse
Discretion
2. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?
Chief
Hoover
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Due Process Phase
3. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
Marbury versus Madison
Sworn - Non-sworn
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
All volunteers
4. What do bills of attainer relate to?
Punishment without trial
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
5th Amendment
Local level
5. What is a local law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Chief
Sir Robert Peel
Article III of the Constitution
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
6. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
Tribal
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Discretion
Felony
7. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Bill of Rights
Aggravating - Mitigating
8. Does a county law enforcement agency head administrator generally require law enforcement experience?
Right away
Retribution
Attorney General
Yes
9. Which of the five major phases in the criminal justice system since 1965 produced major case law?
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Appeal
Due Process Phase
10. What legal model first attempted the concept of rehabilitation and resocialization?
Appeal
4th Amendment
The Family Model
Felony
11. Generally speaking - what type of attorney is a prosecuting attorney?
830.1
Bench Trial
Government Attorney
Jurisdiction
12. What do the majority of cases going into the U.S. District Court involve?
Infraction
National Crime Information Center
Courts
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
13. What are the four Cs of the criminal justice system?
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Judicial - Executive
14
Magna Carta
14. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Bench Trial
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Loosely Coupled
15. If you plea guilty at a misdemeanor arraignment - when can a judge sentence you?
Very inactive
Evaluation
Right away
Due Process Phase
16. The three federal courts are known as what?
Lower Courts
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Infraction
Sir Robert Peel
17. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Patronage
Evaluation
London Metropolitan Police Act
18. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
Makes deals and not go to trial
Bench Trial
F.B.I
U.S. Federal District Courts
19. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?
Mary Ann Crouse
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Court Administrator
Crime Control Due Process
20. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?
50 - 25000
Petition
Deterrence
1 and 8
21. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Stare Decisis
$1.7 million
Pendelton Act
22. When pleading guilty at a felony arrangement - what does the judge generally do for sentencing?
Potential for Incarceration
Courts
Continue to another date
Hoover
23. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Future laws not passed yet
Ah Peen
Sheriff or Shireeve
24. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?
Sheriff or Shireeve
Misdemeanor
U.S. Marshall's
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
25. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?
14
King John
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Trial
26. What Penal Code section states that the court shall refer to probation for a report?
Judiciary Act
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Incapaciation
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
27. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?
Judicial Review
Own Recognizance
Discretion
Courts
28. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?
Information
90 Million
4th Amendment
Felony
29. What concept discusses 'an eye for an eye'?
Retribution
The Penal Code
1203(b)(1) - Felony
English Common Law
30. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?
Parens Patriae
U.S. Postal Inspectors
State Supreme Court
King John
31. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?
Very inactive
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Pretrial Hearing
Court Room Work Group
32. In 1829 which English government employee pushed a new law which followed the ideas of Patrick Colquhoun?
Infraction
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Sir Robert Peel
Pretrial Hearing
33. What does O.R. mean?
6th Amendment
Own Recognizance
Courts
Yes
34. What is the average budget of a local law enforcement agency?
Makes deals and not go to trial
$1.7 million
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
John Augustus
35. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?
Assistant District Attorneys
The Penal Code
George Washington - John Adams
Body - Amendments
36. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?
Pendelton Act
Crime Control - Due Process
Bill of Rights
Trials
37. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
Marbury versus Madison
14
U.S. Constitution
English Common Law
38. What Latin term means great paper?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Magna Carta
17 -500
39. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
1903
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Judiciary Act
County
40. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
Statue of Winchester
Change
Article III of the Constitution
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
41. What type of bodies do our current laws come from?
Judicial/Legislative
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Limited
Generalists
42. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
85%
Adversarial System
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Loosely Coupled
43. Is the Federal or State court system older?
Judicial System = Institutional System
State Supreme Court
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
State
44. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Trials
Generalists
Adversarial System
45. The B.I.A. and the F.B.I. often provide support and assistance to what level of law enforcement agencies?
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Tribal
King Chamberlain's Court
Dual System
46. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
U.S. Court of Appeals
Complaint
85%
Special Police Force
47. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Attorney General
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Stars
48. What major 1803 U.S. Supreme Court case established that the court would begin to interpret what the constitution was all about?
17 -500
Government Attorney
Marbury versus Madison
Discretion
49. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
Jurisdiction
17 -500
Parens Patriae
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
50. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?
Court Room Work Group
Sheriff or Shireeve
State
Marbury versus Madison