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Criminal Justice 101
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1. The third federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
Very inactive
Potential for Incarceration
17 -500
U.S. Federal District Courts
2. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?
Discretion
Generalists
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Miranda versus Arizona
3. Other then UCRS and NIBRS - what entities compile information about crime in the country?
Discretion
Discretion
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
4. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?
U.S. Federal District Courts
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
50 - 25000
Original Jurisdiction
5. What English Common Law court system could arguably be seen as the world's first dedicated juvenile court?
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6. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?
Superior Court
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Tribal
7. What major 1829 English law created a centralized urban police force in London?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Chief
London Metropolitan Police Act
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
8. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Possecomintatus
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
830.1
9. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
1977 Dixon Bill
Bill of Rights
Assistant District Attorneys
National Crime Information Center
10. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Probation Officer
830.1
Broken Windows
11. Does a county law enforcement agency head administrator generally require law enforcement experience?
Dual System
Deterrence
Yes
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
12. Local California courts which handle misdemeanors - minor civil matters - and traffic violations are called what?
Judicial/Legislative
Information
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
U.S. Federal District Courts
13. What is the average budget of a local law enforcement agency?
$1.7 million
John Marshall
Stare Decisis
Magna Carta
14. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?
U.S. Federal District Courts
Incapaciation
1899 Illinois
King Henry II
15. In what year and state was the country's first dedicated juvenile justice system and court legally established?
Article III of the Constitution
Pretrial Hearing
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
1899 Illinois
16. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
50 - 25000
Possecomintatus
5th Amendment
1 and 8
17. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?
17
Petition
Attorney General
F.B.I.
18. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
1382
Preliminary Hearing
F.B.I.
All volunteers
19. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?
State
The Penal Code
Government Attorney
Marbury versus Madison
20. Negative political influence and corruption impacting 19th century U.S. police agencies was called what?
Patronage
John Marshall
90%
Marbury versus Madison
21. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
Nolo Contendre
Very inactive
1382
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
22. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
All volunteers
Evidence
Presentence Court Report
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
23. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?
Crime Control Due Process
Crime Control - Due Process
Due Process
Prison Time - Death Sentence
24. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
Nolo Contendre
Body - Amendments
5th Amendment
1382
25. What does O.R. mean?
Patronage
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Own Recognizance
26. During the Revolutionary War what major document helped to guide the colonies in fighting their war against Britain?
Government Attorney
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Articles of Confederation
1203(b)(1) - Felony
27. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?
Sir Robert Peel
Mala en Se
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Tribal
28. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
Parens Patriae
Sir Robert Peel
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
29. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?
Tribal
14th Amendment
Jurisdiction
5th Amendment
30. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?
1382
Tribal
Judicial System = Institutional System
Superior Court
31. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?
State
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Possecomintatus
32. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?
1 and 8
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
State
State/Local Court System
33. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
Sir Robert Peel
Special Police Force
17 -500
Discretion
34. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?
Patronage and Corruption
Makes deals and not go to trial
Habeas Corpus
Assistant District Attorneys
35. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
85%
Change
Better
Judicial - Executive
36. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?
Possecomintatus
Original Jurisdiction
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
F.B.I.
37. Generally speaking - what type of attorney is a prosecuting attorney?
John Augustus
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Government Attorney
Sheriff or Shireeve
38. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
Marbury versus Madison
Community Sensitive Programs
King John
Tribal
39. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
F.B.I.
Constitutional Law
Dual System
40. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
Due Process
Patronage and Corruption
None
Jurisdiction
41. What two things do military police entities possess?
Original Jurisdiction
Judicial System = Institutional System
Article III of the Constitution
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
42. What Latin term means - 'father or parent of the country?'
Parens Patriae
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
830.1
Prison Time - Death Sentence
43. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?
Generalists
6th Amendment
Stamp Act of 1765
Conditional Sentence
44. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?
Marbury versus Madison
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
1 and 8
Right away
45. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Stamp Act of 1765
Yes
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
46. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
Original Jurisdiction
Magna Carta
Sir Robert Peel
Indeterminate Sentencing
47. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?
Adversarial System
Serpico
Sworn - Non-sworn
Lexington - Concord
48. What does an aggravating factor make the report?
First Continental Congress
Discretion
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Worse
49. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?
Adversarial System
17 -500
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Due Process Phase
50. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
State
King Chamberlain's Court
Presentence Court Report
17 -500