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Criminal Justice 101
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
Adversarial System
Miranda versus Arizona
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Chief
2. The power of the U.S. Supreme Court to interpret what the constitution says and means - via case law - is known as what?
Formal Probation
Judicial Review
F.B.I
Loosely Coupled System
3. Who were the country's first president and vice president?
F.B.I
George Washington - John Adams
Court Room Work Group
State/Local Court System
4. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?
8th Amendment
Appeal
Court Room Work Group
Sworn - Non-sworn
5. The third federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
Sir Robert Peel
U.S. Federal District Courts
Marbury versus Madison
Infraction
6. Jail time - restitution - contact restrictions - drug testing - searches and seizures - employment verification - and counseling can be terms of what?
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Aggravating - Mitigating
Formal Probation
7. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?
None
John Augustus
Incapaciation
Superior Court
8. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
Nolo Contendre
17 -500
Courts
1383
9. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?
U.S. Marshall's
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Incapaciation
Attorney General
10. What does O.R. mean?
Statue of Winchester
Pretrial Hearing
Own Recognizance
Appeals
11. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?
830.1
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
English Common Law
1382
12. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Judicial - Executive
Bench Trial
Superior Court
1382
13. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
Judicial/Legislative
Courts
Hoover
Serpico
14. What 1838 Ohio State Supreme Court Case established the concept of Parens Patriae and no need for due process in juvenile matters?
State
Information
Mary Ann Crouse
Patronage
15. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?
1899 Illinois
Better
17 -500
14th Amendment
16. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
Sworn - Non-sworn
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Loosely Coupled System
17. 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?
First Continental Congress
Attorney General
Conditional Sentence
Petition
18. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
50 - 25000
Intermediate Courts
Discretion
None
19. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?
Court Room Work Group
Broken Windows
Original Jurisdiction
Possecomintatus
20. What is a county law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Discretion
English Common Law
All volunteers
Sheriff
21. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
Judiciary Act
Possecomintatus
90 Million
Stare Decisis
22. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?
Precedent
U.S. Marshall's
1203(b)(1) - Felony
$1.7 million
23. 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
Secret Service
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
U.S. Federal District Courts
24. Generally speaking - what type of attorney is a prosecuting attorney?
Life
Hoover
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Government Attorney
25. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
4th Amendment
Courts
Patronage and Corruption
26. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?
Original Jurisdiction
State Supreme Court
Secret Service
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
27. When pleading guilty at a felony arrangement - what does the judge generally do for sentencing?
Indeterminate Sentencing
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Habeas Corpus
Continue to another date
28. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?
Crime Control Due Process
John Marshall
Pendelton Act
U.S. Federal District Courts
29. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?
14th Amendment
Intermediate Courts
90%
Community Orientated Policing Era
30. In 1829 which English government employee pushed a new law which followed the ideas of Patrick Colquhoun?
Incorrigibles
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Sir Robert Peel
Adversarial System
31. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
Generalists
U.S. Court of Appeals
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
None
32. What Latin term means - 'father or parent of the country?'
Patronage
Parens Patriae
$1.7 million
All volunteers
33. What is an offense that consists of illegal conduct but no jail time?
Discretion
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Infraction
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
34. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?
Crime Control Due Process
Habeas Corpus
Infraction
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
35. Both felonies are misdemeanors are first filed as what?
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Complaint
Due Process Phase
36. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
Presentence Court Report
Mary Ann Crouse
90%
Preliminary Hearing
37. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
Limited
Incorrigibles
17 -500
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
38. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?
London Metropolitan Police Act
Sheriff
Miranda versus Arizona
Intermediate Courts
39. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
Vigilantes
All volunteers
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
King John
40. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
State
Potential for Incarceration
Community Orientated Policing Era
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
41. What Penal Code section states that the court may refer to probation for a report?
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Retribution
State
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
42. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
Preliminary Hearing
Bill of Rights
Worse
Aggravating - Mitigating
43. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Conditional Sentence
Infraction
Bench Trial
44. What does N.C.I.C. stand for?
34
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
National Crime Information Center
First Continental Congress
45. What two things do military police entities possess?
17 -500
All volunteers
Judicial System = Institutional System
Judiciary Act
46. Does a county law enforcement agency head administrator generally require law enforcement experience?
Statue of Winchester
George Washington - John Adams
Yes
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
47. What 1883 federal law stressed the need for a civil service system based upon merit?
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Deterrence
Patronage and Corruption
Pendelton Act
48. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?
Secret Service
Judicial System = Institutional System
8th Amendment
85%
49. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Indeterminate Sentencing
King John
Lexington - Concord
50. What type of bodies do our current laws come from?
Judicial/Legislative
Retribution
17
Appeal