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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What was name of the era which was distinguished by the Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program?
Community Orientated Policing Era
Limited
Future laws not passed yet
14
2. During the Revolutionary War what major document helped to guide the colonies in fighting their war against Britain?
Broken Windows
Articles of Confederation
Nolo Contendre
Precedent
3. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
830.1
Yes
Limited
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
4. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
Evaluation
Presentence Court Report
Makes deals and not go to trial
5th Amendment
5. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Loosely Coupled
17 -500
Crime Control Due Process
6. What 1865 federal law enforcement agency was initially responsible for excessive counterfeiting following the civil war?
Ah Peen
Secret Service
Superior Court
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
7. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?
Secret Service
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Courts
8. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?
Tribal
Trial
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Indeterminate Sentencing
9. What does O.R. mean?
Constitutional Law
Own Recognizance
Felony
Adversarial System
10. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?
U.S. Federal District Courts
Judicial System = Institutional System
F.B.I.
Trial
11. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
Complaint
Loosely Coupled
Lower Courts
Preliminary Hearing
12. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
U.S. Constitution
Own Recognizance
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
13. What is discovery?
Bench Trial
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Evidence
Loosely Coupled System
14. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
1382
Sheriff
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
1977 Dixon Bill
15. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?
King John
Discretion
Appeals
Jurisdiction
16. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?
Judicial/Legislative
Due Process
Petition
Change
17. What is the main criteria which determines whether a mater goes to a federal or state court?
Patrick Colquhoun
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Boston Massacre
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
18. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
Attorney General
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Local level
19. Who runs the N.C.I.C.?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
F.B.I
Deterrence
20. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?
Patrick Colquhoun
Court Room Work Group
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Judiciary Act
21. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?
Stare Decisis
Statue of Winchester
Vigilantes
6th Amendment
22. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
Preliminary Hearing
Pretrial Hearing
Trial
Tribal
23. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
Bill of Rights
Bench Trial
Chief
Article III of the Constitution
24. When pleading guilty at a felony arrangement - what does the judge generally do for sentencing?
Intermediate Courts
Chief
Continue to another date
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
25. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
Information
8th Amendment
Serpico
Infraction
26. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?
Change
Worse
Patronage and Corruption
All volunteers
27. Where does a felony case begin?
Stare Decisis
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
5th Amendment
28. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
17 -500
Stare Decisis
4th Amendment
1977 Dixon Bill
29. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
Bench Trial
Community Orientated Policing Era
Assistant District Attorneys
Deterrence
30. What concept discusses 'an eye for an eye'?
Ah Peen
The Penal Code
Retribution
1899 Illinois
31. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Felony
Judiciary Act
John Marshall
32. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
Indeterminate Sentencing
Possecomintatus
Incapaciation
Probation Officer
33. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?
Potential for Incarceration
Arrangement
Original Jurisdiction
Habeas Corpus
34. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?
Discretion
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Indeterminate Sentencing
35. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?
Hoover
Complaint
Crime Control Due Process
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
36. What are the two main functions of criminal courts?
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37. What is another term for informal probation?
Stare Decisis
Conditional Sentence
Jurisdiction
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
38. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?
Superior Court
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
1382
Patronage
39. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?
John Augustus
John Marshall
English Common Law
1203(b)(1) - Felony
40. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Change
Assistant District Attorneys
State
41. Both felonies are misdemeanors are first filed as what?
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Complaint
Right away
Precedent
42. What do bills of attainer relate to?
State
Punishment without trial
All volunteers
1903
43. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Ah Peen
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
44. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?
Intermediate Courts
1903
1977 Dixon Bill
Better
45. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
Original Jurisdiction
1903
Precedent
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
46. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?
4th Amendment
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Parens Patriae
Felony
47. The average local law enforcement agency will often employ how many officers and serve what size population?
50 - 25000
State
Misdemeanor
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
48. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?
Arrangement
Tribal
King John
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
49. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
Continue to another date
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Change
Judiciary Act
50. What 1838 Ohio State Supreme Court Case established the concept of Parens Patriae and no need for due process in juvenile matters?
5th Amendment
Mary Ann Crouse
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
D&R - Disposition and Resetting