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Criminal Justice 101
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
State/Local Court System
Attorney General
2. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Discretion
Very inactive
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
3. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
6th Amendment
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
4. The three federal courts are known as what?
Original Jurisdiction
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Mary Ann Crouse
5. What Penal Code section states that the court may refer to probation for a report?
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
State
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
6. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
Better
50 - 25000
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
7. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
Assistant District Attorneys
Conditional Sentence
Constitutional Law
Vigilantes
8. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?
14th Amendment
Patrick Colquhoun
50 - 25000
Superior Court
9. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?
17 -500
Loosely Coupled
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Precedent
10. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Assistant District Attorneys
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Hoover
11. The Federal Court system was created through what?
Crime Control Due Process
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Judiciary Act
Prison Time - Death Sentence
12. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
All volunteers
U.S. Marshall's
Hoover
13. 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
Local level
Trial
London Metropolitan Police Act
14. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?
50 - 25000
Court Room Work Group
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Judicial - Executive
15. What 1838 Ohio State Supreme Court Case established the concept of Parens Patriae and no need for due process in juvenile matters?
F.B.I
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
English Common Law
Mary Ann Crouse
16. What Latin term means great paper?
Magna Carta
Sheriff
Conditional Sentence
County
17. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
Local level
Sir Robert Peel
Federal Court System
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
18. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
Conditional Sentence
Generalists
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
F.B.I
19. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?
$1.7 million
F.B.I
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
State
20. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?
1899 Illinois
830.1
John Marshall
Judicial Review
21. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Original Jurisdiction
Prison Time - Death Sentence
14th Amendment
22. What does a preliminary hearing determine?
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Felony
U.S. Federal District Courts
23. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Due Process
National Crime Information Center
Precedent
24. The third federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Patronage
State
U.S. Federal District Courts
25. What federal law enforcement agency delegated peace officer powers to citizens during the era of the wild west?
26. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?
Evaluation
Superior Court
34
Courts
27. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?
Incapaciation
Arrangement
Mary Ann Crouse
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
28. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?
All volunteers
King John
Potential for Incarceration
Patrick Colquhoun
29. What English Common Law court system could arguably be seen as the world's first dedicated juvenile court?
30. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
34
Adversarial System
Bench Trial
31. In Orange County - what type of prosecuting attorneys handle the day to day issues in the court room?
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
39
Discretion
Assistant District Attorneys
32. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
None
Boston Massacre
14
Court Administrator
33. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Statue of Winchester
John Marshall
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
34. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
1 and 8
Preliminary Hearing
1903
35. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?
Presentence Court Report
1382
The Penal Code
Body - Amendments
36. Is the Federal or State court system older?
14th Amendment
Nolo Contendre
State
85%
37. What concept discusses 'an eye for an eye'?
Retribution
Future laws not passed yet
Pendelton Act
Ah Peen
38. How many states use the death penalty?
Nolo Contendre
Secret Service
Patrick Colquhoun
34
39. What were minors who disobeyed orders of the Kings Chancery Court system called?
F.B.I.
State
Government Attorney
Incorrigibles
40. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
Own Recognizance
1382
1 and 8
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
41. What is another term for informal probation?
17 -500
F.B.I.
Adversarial System
Conditional Sentence
42. What 1770 shooting incident heightened tensions between Boston colonists and newly arrived British soldiers?
Boston Massacre
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Change
Hoover
43. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
Judiciary Act
County
Indeterminate Sentencing
U.S. Constitution
44. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
Judicial - Executive
830.1
The Penal Code
50 - 25000
45. Where does a felony case begin?
Own Recognizance
State
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Discretion
46. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
1903
U.S. Court of Appeals
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Discretion
47. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?
Attorney General
Government Attorney
State
Adversarial System
48. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Sheriff or Shireeve
Lower Courts
17 -500
49. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?
Trial
U.S. Federal District Courts
Due Process
Appeals
50. Who runs the N.C.I.C.?
F.B.I
Incapaciation
Felony
Marbury versus Madison