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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Serpico
State/Local Court System
Future laws not passed yet
2. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?
Possecomintatus
Sworn - Non-sworn
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
U.S. Marshall's
3. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Discretion
85%
4. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
Stare Decisis
Tribal
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Judicial Review
5. What 1865 federal law enforcement agency was initially responsible for excessive counterfeiting following the civil war?
Presentence Court Report
Secret Service
Incorrigibles
Makes deals and not go to trial
6. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
All volunteers
U.S. Marshall's
Discretion
None
7. What Penal Code section states that the court may refer to probation for a report?
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
State Supreme Court
Preliminary Hearing
Articles of Confederation
8. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
State
Federal Court System
Loosely Coupled System
Due Process Phase
9. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?
Broken Windows
Hoover
6th Amendment
Superior Court
10. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1930?
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Pendelton Act
Hoover
1899 Illinois
11. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?
Aggravating - Mitigating
39
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Petition
12. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
90 Million
17
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
13. What federal law enforcement agency delegated peace officer powers to citizens during the era of the wild west?
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14. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?
Crime Control - Due Process
Court Room Work Group
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
1899 Illinois
15. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
50 - 25000
First Continental Congress
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Trials
16. Other then UCRS and NIBRS - what entities compile information about crime in the country?
Chief
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Vigilantes
Presentence Court Report
17. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?
Felony
King Chamberlain's Court
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
County
18. What is meant by inferior courts?
Discretion
Makes deals and not go to trial
Adversarial System
Lower Courts
19. What are the five levels of force among agencies?
Evaluation
F.B.I
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Preliminary Hearing
20. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?
Formal Probation
King John
Due Process Phase
Misdemeanor
21. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?
Stars
Loosely Coupled
Right away
Adversarial System
22. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?
Broken Windows
F.B.I.
Judicial System = Institutional System
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
23. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?
Hoover
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Petition
Aggravating - Mitigating
24. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
Habeas Corpus
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
First Continental Congress
Crime Control Due Process
25. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
State
Judiciary Act
Constitutional Law
26. What does an aggravating factor make the report?
Special Police Force
Worse
F.B.I
Yes
27. The B.I.A. and the F.B.I. often provide support and assistance to what level of law enforcement agencies?
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Magna Carta
Tribal
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
28. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
Original Jurisdiction
Stars
Adversarial System
Judicial System = Institutional System
29. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?
Very inactive
1903
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Prison Time - Death Sentence
30. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
34
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Dual System
31. What current California legal code did the Law of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses contribute to?
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
The Penal Code
Nolo Contendre
32. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Judicial - Executive
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
33. Under English Common Law what was the general cut off age in distinguishing between those who could charged with felonies?
John Marshall
14
Serpico
Patronage and Corruption
34. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
830.1
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Judicial - Executive
35. What is the point of a second preliminary hearing?
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Vigilantes
Local level
Constitutional Law
36. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
Community Orientated Policing Era
39
5th Amendment
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
37. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
Judicial Review
State
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Judicial System = Institutional System
38. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
Life
Makes deals and not go to trial
Potential for Incarceration
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
39. What is a county law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Broken Windows
Statue of Winchester
Sheriff
Mala en Se
40. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
John Augustus
Misdemeanor
6th Amendment
U.S. Postal Inspectors
41. During the Revolutionary War what major document helped to guide the colonies in fighting their war against Britain?
Original Jurisdiction
U.S. Court of Appeals
Articles of Confederation
Vigilantes
42. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
Court Room Work Group
Crime Control Due Process
State
Limited
43. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?
Worse
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Misdemeanor
State
44. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
Tribal
Article III of the Constitution
14
Vigilantes
45. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
85%
Generalists
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
National Crime Information Center
46. What is another term for informal probation?
Patrick Colquhoun
Conditional Sentence
Crime Control - Due Process
6th Amendment
47. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?
State
Trials
Crime Control - Due Process
Due Process Phase
48. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
County
Bench Trial
Federal Court System
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
49. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Articles of Confederation
Retribution
Evaluation
50. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
Courts
1903
Retribution
U.S. Court of Appeals
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