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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?
Discretion
State
Constitutional Law
4th Amendment
2. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
None
Punishment without trial
Retribution
3. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?
Judicial Review
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
4th Amendment
Community Sensitive Programs
4. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?
Body - Amendments
Special Police Force
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Courts
5. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?
Broken Windows
Constitutional Law
Own Recognizance
39
6. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?
Stare Decisis
Due Process
Attorney General
Prison Time - Death Sentence
7. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
Indeterminate Sentencing
14
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
85%
8. Who were the country's first president and vice president?
George Washington - John Adams
Nolo Contendre
Stare Decisis
Special Police Force
9. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
Future laws not passed yet
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
U.S. Constitution
10. Where does a felony case begin?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Habeas Corpus
County
Information
11. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
Adversarial System
Appeals
Statue of Winchester
Complaint
12. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
John Augustus
Lexington - Concord
Judicial - Executive
Pretrial Hearing
13. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Miranda versus Arizona
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Evaluation
14. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?
Dual System
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Limited
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
15. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
Patrick Colquhoun
5th Amendment
14
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
16. What is the point of a second preliminary hearing?
Mary Ann Crouse
Federal Court System
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
17. What law enforcement agency maintains the largest training academy in the U.S.?
1899 Illinois
F.B.I.
King John
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
18. The power of the U.S. Supreme Court to interpret what the constitution says and means - via case law - is known as what?
Federal Court System
Judicial Review
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Assistant District Attorneys
19. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?
Petition
Appeal
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
90%
20. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
1382
Dual System
Tribal
50 - 25000
21. What does a preliminary hearing determine?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Felony
Preliminary Hearing
22. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
Vigilantes
Discretion
Trials
Change
23. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Change
All volunteers
State
24. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Felony
King Henry II
25. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
Stare Decisis
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Loosely Coupled
Limited
26. Other then UCRS and NIBRS - what entities compile information about crime in the country?
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
State
Patronage and Corruption
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
27. The third federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
U.S. Federal District Courts
Community Sensitive Programs
4th Amendment
$1.7 million
28. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?
6th Amendment
5th Amendment
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
1899 Illinois
29. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?
Trial
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Special Police Force
30. Under English Common Law what was the general cut off age in distinguishing between those who could charged with felonies?
Stare Decisis
Incapaciation
14
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
31. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
All volunteers
Stamp Act of 1765
Future laws not passed yet
Potential for Incarceration
32. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
14th Amendment
Own Recognizance
Superior Court
33. If you plea guilty at a misdemeanor arraignment - when can a judge sentence you?
Infraction
Right away
Sir Robert Peel
Sheriff or Shireeve
34. What is the average budget of a local law enforcement agency?
Arrangement
$1.7 million
Due Process Phase
Stamp Act of 1765
35. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?
14
Stars
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Article III of the Constitution
36. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
Generalists
Lower Courts
Sir Robert Peel
State
37. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
Presentence Court Report
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Bench Trial
Sheriff
38. Who is referred to as the father of probation?
John Augustus
39
Loosely Coupled System
Original Jurisdiction
39. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
Formal Probation
Serpico
14
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
40. What does a judge order the probation department to write in order to find more about an individual before sentencing?
Stare Decisis
None
Preliminary Hearing
Presentence Court Report
41. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
First Continental Congress
Vigilantes
Judicial Review
Judicial System = Institutional System
42. What does ex-post facto law relate to?
Future laws not passed yet
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Petition
State/Local Court System
43. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?
Possecomintatus
Makes deals and not go to trial
17 -500
Change
44. What are the two types of defense attorneys?
Ah Peen
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
1382
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
45. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
14
39
U.S. Constitution
Misdemeanor
46. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?
39
14
Court Administrator
34
47. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?
830.1
King John
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Magna Carta
48. Does a county law enforcement agency head administrator generally require law enforcement experience?
All volunteers
Bench Trial
Courts
Yes
49. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
Continue to another date
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Preliminary Hearing
Due Process
50. What concept attempts to alter future behaviors through threats of punishment and consequences?
Sir Robert Peel
Loosely Coupled
Deterrence
Appeal
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