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Criminal Justice 101
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1. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?
Information
Original Jurisdiction
Parens Patriae
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
2. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
6th Amendment
Worse
Due Process
Stare Decisis
3. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
All volunteers
Stamp Act of 1765
Formal Probation
4. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
State Supreme Court
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Preliminary Hearing
Loosely Coupled System
5. In what year and state was the country's first dedicated juvenile justice system and court legally established?
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Sheriff
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
1899 Illinois
6. What English Common Law court system could arguably be seen as the world's first dedicated juvenile court?
7. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
F.B.I
1 and 8
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Own Recognizance
8. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Court Administrator
Petition
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
9. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
All volunteers
Due Process
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
10. What major 1803 U.S. Supreme Court case established that the court would begin to interpret what the constitution was all about?
Vigilantes
Marbury versus Madison
Dual System
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
11. Who is referred to as the father of probation?
Judiciary Act
Yes
Sir Robert Peel
John Augustus
12. Is the Federal or State court system older?
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Generalists
14th Amendment
State
13. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
None
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
1899 Illinois
14. What federal law enforcement agency delegated peace officer powers to citizens during the era of the wild west?
15. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?
Lower Courts
State
U.S. Postal Inspectors
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
16. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
Serpico
State
King Chamberlain's Court
Lexington - Concord
17. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?
Future laws not passed yet
Presentence Court Report
Court Room Work Group
Preliminary Hearing
18. What was the original staffing of the U.S. Supreme Court?
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Body - Amendments
39
Indeterminate Sentencing
19. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Patrick Colquhoun
Discretion
English Common Law
20. What Penal Code section states that the court may refer to probation for a report?
Stars
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Trials
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
21. What Latin term means great paper?
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Potential for Incarceration
Mala Prohibita
Magna Carta
22. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
Discretion
Tribal
Court Administrator
Evidence
23. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?
4th Amendment
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Constitutional Law
Arrangement
24. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?
14
Presentence Court Report
Tribal
John Marshall
25. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?
Community Sensitive Programs
Tribal
Miranda versus Arizona
Aggravating - Mitigating
26. What does ex-post facto law relate to?
Change
Judiciary Act
Government Attorney
Future laws not passed yet
27. What major 1829 English law created a centralized urban police force in London?
The Family Model
Generalists
London Metropolitan Police Act
Limited
28. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?
Stamp Act of 1765
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Preliminary Hearing
Right away
29. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
Community Orientated Policing Era
1383
Retribution
Continue to another date
30. What is the main criteria which determines whether a mater goes to a federal or state court?
Indeterminate Sentencing
King Chamberlain's Court
Statue of Winchester
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
31. How long is a federal judge's term of office for?
Makes deals and not go to trial
Life
Mala en Se
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
32. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?
Community Sensitive Programs
Articles of Confederation
Chief
17
33. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Local level
Body - Amendments
Community Sensitive Programs
34. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
Generalists
Judiciary Act
90 Million
Hoover
35. If you plea guilty at a misdemeanor arraignment - when can a judge sentence you?
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Appeals
Right away
Assistant District Attorneys
36. What was name of the era which was distinguished by the Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program?
Community Orientated Policing Era
Discretion
Probation Officer
1903
37. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
85%
Future laws not passed yet
Sheriff or Shireeve
38. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
Sheriff or Shireeve
John Marshall
Mala Prohibita
Constitutional Law
39. What are the oldest law enforcement agencies in the country?
40. What are the two ancient codes that contributed to our current legal system?
Community Sensitive Programs
Possecomintatus
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
41. The Federal Court system was created through what?
Own Recognizance
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Judiciary Act
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
42. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?
Original Jurisdiction
Boston Massacre
Dual System
Loosely Coupled System
43. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
All volunteers
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Discretion
John Augustus
44. Who is in charge of staffing - calender - budget - and other material needs of the court room?
Court Administrator
Infraction
Mala Prohibita
King Chamberlain's Court
45. In 1789 which London magistrate stressed the need for a 'centralized' law enforcement agency?
Possecomintatus
14th Amendment
Aggravating - Mitigating
Patrick Colquhoun
46. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
Potential for Incarceration
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Stars
Stare Decisis
47. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?
Vigilantes
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Trials
Serpico
48. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
17 -500
Petition
Indeterminate Sentencing
Discretion
49. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?
Hoover
First Continental Congress
830.1
Pretrial Hearing
50. What is the point of a second preliminary hearing?
Habeas Corpus
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
None
Government Attorney