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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
None
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Constitutional Law
Misdemeanor
2. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?
Adversarial System
Original Jurisdiction
Due Process Phase
Discretion
3. In 1789 which London magistrate stressed the need for a 'centralized' law enforcement agency?
State
Bench Trial
Patrick Colquhoun
1383
4. In what year and state was the country's first dedicated juvenile justice system and court legally established?
Tribal
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
1899 Illinois
Probation Officer
5. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Life
Trials
Judiciary Act
6. What 1770 shooting incident heightened tensions between Boston colonists and newly arrived British soldiers?
1903
1977 Dixon Bill
Judicial/Legislative
Boston Massacre
7. The three federal courts are known as what?
Community Orientated Policing Era
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Judicial Review
8. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
Continue to another date
Patronage and Corruption
Stare Decisis
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
9. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
Superior Court
5th Amendment
Preliminary Hearing
Dual System
10. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?
Very inactive
Stamp Act of 1765
State Supreme Court
State/Local Court System
11. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?
English Common Law
Tribal
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
1203(b)(1) - Felony
12. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?
17 -500
Makes deals and not go to trial
Crime Control - Due Process
Habeas Corpus
13. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
Potential for Incarceration
Complaint
Stare Decisis
Judiciary Act
14. Does a county law enforcement agency head administrator generally require law enforcement experience?
85%
5th Amendment
Yes
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
15. What does an aggravating factor make the report?
Parens Patriae
Courts
John Augustus
Worse
16. What does a preliminary hearing determine?
Incorrigibles
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
17. Both felonies are misdemeanors are first filed as what?
Constitutional Law
Discretion
King Chamberlain's Court
Complaint
18. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?
Court Room Work Group
Miranda versus Arizona
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
19. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
County
The Penal Code
Bill of Rights
17 -500
20. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
Stare Decisis
1203(b)(1) - Felony
F.B.I.
Community Orientated Policing Era
21. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?
Patrick Colquhoun
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
None
90%
22. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
County
Habeas Corpus
Incorrigibles
Judiciary Act
23. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?
Due Process Phase
4th Amendment
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
State
24. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?
17
50 - 25000
1 and 8
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
25. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?
Limited
Sheriff or Shireeve
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Government Attorney
26. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
County
Information
King Henry II
85%
27. Generally speaking - what type of attorney is a prosecuting attorney?
Community Orientated Policing Era
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Complaint
Government Attorney
28. What Latin term means great paper?
Magna Carta
Right away
Worse
8th Amendment
29. During the Revolutionary War what major document helped to guide the colonies in fighting their war against Britain?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Precedent
U.S. Marshall's
Articles of Confederation
30. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
830.1
Very inactive
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Vigilantes
31. Other then UCRS and NIBRS - what entities compile information about crime in the country?
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Trials
F.B.I
32. Where does a felony case begin?
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Articles of Confederation
None
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
33. What two factors does a probation officer consider when writing the presentence report?
17
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Aggravating - Mitigating
50 - 25000
34. What is the Latin term that means evil or bad in itself?
Mala en Se
1899 Illinois
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
35. What does ex-post facto law relate to?
Boston Massacre
Future laws not passed yet
830.1
Preliminary Hearing
36. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?
Sir Robert Peel
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Potential for Incarceration
Court Room Work Group
37. In which two locations did the actual shooting war begin between British soldiers and Colonial militia men?
Lexington - Concord
Generalists
Potential for Incarceration
Mala en Se
38. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
50 - 25000
Sir Robert Peel
Adversarial System
6th Amendment
39. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
Mala Prohibita
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
U.S. Constitution
4th Amendment
40. What 1865 federal law enforcement agency was initially responsible for excessive counterfeiting following the civil war?
1899 Illinois
Secret Service
4th Amendment
Constitutional Law
41. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?
Article III of the Constitution
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
90%
Complaint
42. What are the two types of defense attorneys?
Chief
Loosely Coupled System
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
43. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Stars
Formal Probation
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
44. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Lower Courts
Tribal
The Penal Code
45. What was the name of the group of people who went to Philadelphia in 1774 in order to discuss their unhappiness with Britain and its taxes?
All volunteers
First Continental Congress
Original Jurisdiction
Limited
46. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?
17 -500
Chief
Patrick Colquhoun
Adversarial System
47. What 1883 federal law stressed the need for a civil service system based upon merit?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Probation Officer
Pendelton Act
48. Who runs the N.C.I.C.?
The Penal Code
F.B.I
Life
Bench Trial
49. What type of bodies do our current laws come from?
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Deterrence
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Judicial/Legislative
50. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?
Limited
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Petition
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision