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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What type of bodies do our current laws come from?
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
14th Amendment
F.B.I.
Judicial/Legislative
2. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Judicial Review
Appeal
Preliminary Hearing
3. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Preliminary Hearing
Broken Windows
Evidence
4. How is a jury panel selected?
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
First Continental Congress
State Supreme Court
John Augustus
5. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?
Nolo Contendre
Attorney General
90%
Arrangement
6. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?
Stare Decisis
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
8th Amendment
Evaluation
7. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Very inactive
Stamp Act of 1765
Right away
8. What legal model first attempted the concept of rehabilitation and resocialization?
The Family Model
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Marbury versus Madison
9. How many states use the death penalty?
Complaint
34
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
10. What are the five levels of force among agencies?
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
17 -500
County
Attorney General
11. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Secret Service
Original Jurisdiction
Boston Massacre
12. What is an offense that consists of illegal conduct but no jail time?
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Infraction
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
13. The power of the U.S. Supreme Court to interpret what the constitution says and means - via case law - is known as what?
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Judicial Review
Vigilantes
Original Jurisdiction
14. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
Formal Probation
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Mary Ann Crouse
Articles of Confederation
15. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Judicial - Executive
Infraction
Articles of Confederation
Loosely Coupled
16. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
Habeas Corpus
Sworn - Non-sworn
Adversarial System
Due Process
17. What two things do military police entities possess?
1977 Dixon Bill
Lexington - Concord
Serpico
Judicial System = Institutional System
18. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?
Attorney General
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Pretrial Hearing
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
19. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Due Process Phase
U.S. Constitution
All volunteers
20. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Chief
John Marshall
21. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?
1 and 8
Crime Control Due Process
Patronage
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
22. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?
Ah Peen
90%
Court Room Work Group
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
23. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?
Change
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
None
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
24. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
Judiciary Act
Pendelton Act
8th Amendment
Community Sensitive Programs
25. Jail time - restitution - contact restrictions - drug testing - searches and seizures - employment verification - and counseling can be terms of what?
Retribution
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Constitutional Law
Formal Probation
26. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
State
Magna Carta
Lower Courts
Generalists
27. The third federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
Worse
U.S. Federal District Courts
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
28. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
1 and 8
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
King Chamberlain's Court
Change
29. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?
Intermediate Courts
Dual System
Statue of Winchester
Adversarial System
30. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Lower Courts
Stamp Act of 1765
F.B.I.
31. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Incapaciation
17 -500
Discretion
32. What two factors does a probation officer consider when writing the presentence report?
Aggravating - Mitigating
Infraction
Ah Peen
Life
33. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
Stars
Makes deals and not go to trial
Evidence
Limited
34. What does an aggravating factor make the report?
8th Amendment
Worse
Mala Prohibita
State Supreme Court
35. The B.I.A. and the F.B.I. often provide support and assistance to what level of law enforcement agencies?
Constitutional Law
Tribal
Government Attorney
Lower Courts
36. Negative political influence and corruption impacting 19th century U.S. police agencies was called what?
Appeals
Patronage
Judicial - Executive
Parens Patriae
37. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
County
U.S. Constitution
Mala Prohibita
38. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
Nolo Contendre
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Precedent
39. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
Retribution
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
U.S. Constitution
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
40. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?
Stare Decisis
John Augustus
Pretrial Hearing
Statue of Winchester
41. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?
Body - Amendments
Adversarial System
Petition
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
42. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?
Due Process
Petition
Assistant District Attorneys
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
43. In 1789 which London magistrate stressed the need for a 'centralized' law enforcement agency?
34
Patrick Colquhoun
Retribution
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
44. What concepts attempts to protect society by isolating others?
Incapaciation
Misdemeanor
Very inactive
1382
45. In which two locations did the actual shooting war begin between British soldiers and Colonial militia men?
Lexington - Concord
Better
Miranda versus Arizona
Original Jurisdiction
46. What English Common Law court system could arguably be seen as the world's first dedicated juvenile court?
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47. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?
4th Amendment
Adversarial System
Lower Courts
State
48. What are the two types of defense attorneys?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Life
Felony
State/Local Court System
49. What 1865 federal law enforcement agency was initially responsible for excessive counterfeiting following the civil war?
The Family Model
Secret Service
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
50. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?
Patronage and Corruption
Petition
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Patrick Colquhoun