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Criminal Justice 101
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1987 as a supplement to UCRS?
Very inactive
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Adversarial System
Nolo Contendre
2. In 1789 which London magistrate stressed the need for a 'centralized' law enforcement agency?
Patrick Colquhoun
39
1899 Illinois
Future laws not passed yet
3. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
17
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Stars
4. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
King Henry II
Formal Probation
Secret Service
Limited
5. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?
Statue of Winchester
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Preliminary Hearing
6. How many states use the death penalty?
34
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Courts
Evidence
7. What English Common Law court system could arguably be seen as the world's first dedicated juvenile court?
8. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?
English Common Law
State Supreme Court
Courts
Lower Courts
9. What does N.C.I.C. stand for?
National Crime Information Center
Own Recognizance
Court Administrator
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
10. What legal model first attempted the concept of rehabilitation and resocialization?
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Adversarial System
The Family Model
11. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Arrangement
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
12. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Worse
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
90%
13. Is the Federal or State court system older?
Discretion
Local level
State
Future laws not passed yet
14. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
Tribal
$1.7 million
50 - 25000
State
15. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?
George Washington - John Adams
Lexington - Concord
Constitutional Law
F.B.I.
16. What two things do military police entities possess?
1899 Illinois
Chief
Judicial System = Institutional System
Bench Trial
17. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
Adversarial System
Judiciary Act
Habeas Corpus
Tribal
18. What major 1803 U.S. Supreme Court case established that the court would begin to interpret what the constitution was all about?
Nolo Contendre
Marbury versus Madison
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
19. What are the two main functions of criminal courts?
20. Local California courts which handle misdemeanors - minor civil matters - and traffic violations are called what?
Stamp Act of 1765
34
Makes deals and not go to trial
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
21. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
Felony
Intermediate Courts
Local level
London Metropolitan Police Act
22. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
17 -500
Vigilantes
5th Amendment
F.B.I.
23. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?
U.S. Federal District Courts
Felony
Very inactive
John Marshall
24. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?
4th Amendment
1382
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Article III of the Constitution
25. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Probation Officer
Infraction
Judicial System = Institutional System
26. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1930?
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Statue of Winchester
Possecomintatus
Evaluation
27. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
Bill of Rights
Judicial - Executive
County
Attorney General
28. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
Bench Trial
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
U.S. Constitution
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
29. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
None
Federal Court System
All volunteers
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
30. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Hoover
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
31. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?
Potential for Incarceration
Pendelton Act
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Crime Control - Due Process
32. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
6th Amendment
Better
33. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
1382
Articles of Confederation
5th Amendment
90 Million
34. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?
Formal Probation
Intermediate Courts
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
35. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Conditional Sentence
Generalists
36. In 1829 which English government employee pushed a new law which followed the ideas of Patrick Colquhoun?
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
14
Sir Robert Peel
90 Million
37. What concept attempts to alter future behaviors through threats of punishment and consequences?
Deterrence
Crime Control Due Process
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
50 - 25000
38. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?
14
U.S. Marshall's
Crime Control Due Process
Judicial System = Institutional System
39. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
State
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Nolo Contendre
Potential for Incarceration
40. What type of bodies do our current laws come from?
Miranda versus Arizona
Judicial/Legislative
90 Million
State
41. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?
Continue to another date
Precedent
London Metropolitan Police Act
Ah Peen
42. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
State
Judicial - Executive
Nolo Contendre
Sir Robert Peel
43. In Orange County - what type of prosecuting attorneys handle the day to day issues in the court room?
Due Process Phase
Assistant District Attorneys
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Generalists
44. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?
Court Room Work Group
Formal Probation
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Felony
45. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
Marbury versus Madison
Stare Decisis
Court Room Work Group
Pendelton Act
46. The Federal Court system was created through what?
Judiciary Act
King Henry II
85%
State/Local Court System
47. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
Mala Prohibita
King Chamberlain's Court
Own Recognizance
Conditional Sentence
48. What Latin term means - 'father or parent of the country?'
Parens Patriae
Own Recognizance
Discretion
Formal Probation
49. 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?
Pretrial Hearing
Evidence
First Continental Congress
Statue of Winchester
50. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
Intermediate Courts
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Adversarial System
Attorney General