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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?
State Supreme Court
Special Police Force
8th Amendment
Stare Decisis
2. What is a local law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Chief
Magna Carta
Tribal
Change
3. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?
Original Jurisdiction
Conditional Sentence
Mala Prohibita
Courts
4. What is meant by inferior courts?
Stars
Lower Courts
Discretion
Indeterminate Sentencing
5. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
Mala Prohibita
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Own Recognizance
6. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
Parens Patriae
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
1383
Preliminary Hearing
7. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
1977 Dixon Bill
State Supreme Court
1383
17 -500
8. What is the State Court System's court of last resort?
John Augustus
State Supreme Court
Discretion
Formal Probation
9. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?
Evidence
Sheriff or Shireeve
Stare Decisis
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
10. What is an offense that consists of illegal conduct but no jail time?
Sir Robert Peel
Change
Infraction
Secret Service
11. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
Stamp Act of 1765
Local level
Loosely Coupled System
Government Attorney
12. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?
Court Room Work Group
17 -500
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Probation Officer
13. What Latin term means - 'father or parent of the country?'
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Boston Massacre
Parens Patriae
Lexington - Concord
14. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Deterrence
Original Jurisdiction
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
15. Local California courts which handle misdemeanors - minor civil matters - and traffic violations are called what?
Deterrence
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Preliminary Hearing
16. What concept discusses 'an eye for an eye'?
Retribution
Tribal
U.S. Postal Inspectors
50 - 25000
17. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?
State
Makes deals and not go to trial
Crime Control Due Process
Marbury versus Madison
18. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
Precedent
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Change
Crime Control - Due Process
19. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?
Stare Decisis
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Better
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
20. How long is a federal judge's term of office for?
8th Amendment
Life
5th Amendment
George Washington - John Adams
21. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?
Dual System
90%
Judicial/Legislative
Courts
22. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?
Jurisdiction
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
17 -500
The Penal Code
23. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?
U.S. Constitution
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Mala Prohibita
Discretion
24. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
U.S. Constitution
Special Police Force
Presentence Court Report
1 and 8
25. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?
Intermediate Courts
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Evidence
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
26. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?
Evaluation
Original Jurisdiction
1383
Articles of Confederation
27. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?
Patronage
Loosely Coupled
County
Preliminary Hearing
28. What do bills of attainer relate to?
Ah Peen
1977 Dixon Bill
State
Punishment without trial
29. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?
Patrick Colquhoun
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Loosely Coupled System
30. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Probation Officer
State
All volunteers
31. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
1382
Sheriff
Felony
Precedent
32. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
Deterrence
Evaluation
Indeterminate Sentencing
Crime Control - Due Process
33. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?
John Augustus
Due Process Phase
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Petition
34. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
Loosely Coupled
Crime Control Due Process
Arrangement
Limited
35. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?
All volunteers
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
F.B.I
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
36. Jail time - restitution - contact restrictions - drug testing - searches and seizures - employment verification - and counseling can be terms of what?
County
Formal Probation
17 -500
F.B.I.
37. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?
Petition
State Supreme Court
8th Amendment
County
38. What legal model first attempted the concept of rehabilitation and resocialization?
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Evaluation
Lexington - Concord
The Family Model
39. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?
50 - 25000
39
14th Amendment
Lower Courts
40. In what year and state was the country's first dedicated juvenile justice system and court legally established?
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
1899 Illinois
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
41. What are the two main functions of criminal courts?
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42. What Penal Code section states that the court may refer to probation for a report?
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Trial
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
43. 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
F.B.I.
1382
Nolo Contendre
44. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Crime Control - Due Process
Sheriff or Shireeve
39
45. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
Patrick Colquhoun
Judiciary Act
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Right away
46. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?
Court Room Work Group
Hoover
John Augustus
State/Local Court System
47. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?
Miranda versus Arizona
Judicial - Executive
8th Amendment
Deterrence
48. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Judicial - Executive
Discretion
49. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?
Arrangement
Discretion
$1.7 million
English Common Law
50. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
Adversarial System
Government Attorney
National Crime Information Center
U.S. Constitution