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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Pretrial Hearing
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Evaluation
2. Local California courts which handle misdemeanors - minor civil matters - and traffic violations are called what?
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Tribal
Sir Robert Peel
90%
3. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
Very inactive
Change
U.S. Court of Appeals
Marbury versus Madison
4. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
Original Jurisdiction
Trial
Courts
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
5. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
Parens Patriae
Limited
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
State/Local Court System
6. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
Bench Trial
Indeterminate Sentencing
King John
Aggravating - Mitigating
7. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?
Continue to another date
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Appeal
Discretion
8. What concept attempts to alter future behaviors through threats of punishment and consequences?
Deterrence
Hoover
Makes deals and not go to trial
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
9. When pleading guilty at a felony arrangement - what does the judge generally do for sentencing?
Continue to another date
King Chamberlain's Court
5th Amendment
State
10. What two things do military police entities possess?
Judicial System = Institutional System
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Vigilantes
1977 Dixon Bill
11. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
17 -500
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Limited
Crime Control Due Process
12. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Vigilantes
Patronage and Corruption
Discretion
13. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
Habeas Corpus
Local level
Stare Decisis
Sir Robert Peel
14. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?
Ah Peen
Judicial/Legislative
4th Amendment
The Penal Code
15. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
U.S. Constitution
F.B.I.
Jurisdiction
16. What are the two types of defense attorneys?
F.B.I.
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Worse
Stare Decisis
17. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?
U.S. Postal Inspectors
$1.7 million
Vigilantes
17 -500
18. What west coast supreme court case in 1876 further established the philosophy of Parens Patriae and no due process for juveniles?
Judiciary Act
Tribal
Stamp Act of 1765
Ah Peen
19. What current California legal code did the Law of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses contribute to?
Arrangement
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Possecomintatus
The Penal Code
20. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
Patrick Colquhoun
Bill of Rights
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Discretion
21. The B.I.A. and the F.B.I. often provide support and assistance to what level of law enforcement agencies?
Tribal
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Loosely Coupled
Change
22. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Judicial - Executive
Limited
Chief
23. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
Sir Robert Peel
Generalists
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Crime Control - Due Process
24. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?
8th Amendment
Jurisdiction
None
John Marshall
25. What is the name for a felony complaint?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Limited
Information
Change
26. What major 1803 U.S. Supreme Court case established that the court would begin to interpret what the constitution was all about?
Conditional Sentence
U.S. Marshall's
Change
Marbury versus Madison
27. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
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Mala Prohibita
State Supreme Court
Sheriff or Shireeve
28. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
90%
Article III of the Constitution
Loosely Coupled System
State
29. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
King John
None
F.B.I.
Complaint
30. Jail time - restitution - contact restrictions - drug testing - searches and seizures - employment verification - and counseling can be terms of what?
Formal Probation
Hoover
Sworn - Non-sworn
Parens Patriae
31. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
Judicial/Legislative
Jurisdiction
85%
Patronage and Corruption
32. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
Preliminary Hearing
Generalists
Court Administrator
Indeterminate Sentencing
33. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
Judiciary Act
State
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Body - Amendments
34. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?
Felony
Loosely Coupled
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
35. What is the average budget of a local law enforcement agency?
830.1
Deterrence
$1.7 million
King Henry II
36. What is a local law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Preliminary Hearing
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Chief
Judicial/Legislative
37. What do the majority of cases going into the U.S. District Court involve?
Courts
Local level
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Information
38. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?
F.B.I.
Articles of Confederation
1 and 8
Magna Carta
39. What federal law enforcement agency delegated peace officer powers to citizens during the era of the wild west?
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40. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?
F.B.I.
Crime Control Due Process
County
Judicial System = Institutional System
41. Who is referred to as the father of probation?
85%
Potential for Incarceration
John Augustus
Discretion
42. Who is in charge of staffing - calender - budget - and other material needs of the court room?
Federal Court System
The Penal Code
Court Administrator
Adversarial System
43. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?
$1.7 million
Courts
English Common Law
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
44. What Latin term means - 'father or parent of the country?'
Broken Windows
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Special Police Force
Parens Patriae
45. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Parens Patriae
F.B.I.
Change
46. Both felonies are misdemeanors are first filed as what?
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
1899 Illinois
King Chamberlain's Court
Complaint
47. Negative political influence and corruption impacting 19th century U.S. police agencies was called what?
Government Attorney
Patronage
Conditional Sentence
State
48. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?
Hoover
Presentence Court Report
King Chamberlain's Court
Prison Time - Death Sentence
49. What does N.C.I.C. stand for?
Article III of the Constitution
Judiciary Act
National Crime Information Center
Evaluation
50. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Misdemeanor
Petition
Assistant District Attorneys