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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What does N.C.I.C. stand for?
1899 Illinois
Evaluation
Appeal
National Crime Information Center
2. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
Sheriff or Shireeve
17
85%
U.S. Postal Inspectors
3. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?
Magna Carta
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
1903
Habeas Corpus
4. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
State
Dual System
Probation Officer
5. Generally speaking - what type of attorney is a prosecuting attorney?
Court Room Work Group
34
Government Attorney
None
6. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Community Orientated Policing Era
Sworn - Non-sworn
Indeterminate Sentencing
7. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Due Process
John Augustus
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
8. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Mala Prohibita
Sir Robert Peel
Patronage and Corruption
9. What is a local law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Incapaciation
Adversarial System
Sworn - Non-sworn
Chief
10. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?
14th Amendment
State/Local Court System
Government Attorney
Own Recognizance
11. What 1838 Ohio State Supreme Court Case established the concept of Parens Patriae and no need for due process in juvenile matters?
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Superior Court
Mala en Se
Mary Ann Crouse
12. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
Patronage and Corruption
State Supreme Court
Local level
Vigilantes
13. What is a county law enforcement agency's head administrator?
U.S. Marshall's
Petition
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Sheriff
14. Who is in charge of staffing - calender - budget - and other material needs of the court room?
Miranda versus Arizona
Secret Service
John Augustus
Court Administrator
15. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?
Appeal
Stars
George Washington - John Adams
County
16. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
1977 Dixon Bill
English Common Law
Stare Decisis
Yes
17. What is the main criteria which determines whether a mater goes to a federal or state court?
Federal Court System
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Serpico
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
18. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
Petition
King John
Serpico
Federal Court System
19. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?
4th Amendment
1903
17 -500
Patrick Colquhoun
20. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?
Secret Service
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Preliminary Hearing
F.B.I.
21. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?
1 and 8
Retribution
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
22. What is the Latin term that means evil or bad in itself?
Superior Court
50 - 25000
John Marshall
Mala en Se
23. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
Very inactive
90 Million
Generalists
Sir Robert Peel
24. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?
Vigilantes
1383
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
1 and 8
25. In which two locations did the actual shooting war begin between British soldiers and Colonial militia men?
Lexington - Concord
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Statue of Winchester
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
26. What is the point of a second preliminary hearing?
Original Jurisdiction
U.S. Federal District Courts
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
27. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Special Police Force
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
8th Amendment
28. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?
Patrick Colquhoun
The Family Model
Discretion
Miranda versus Arizona
29. What west coast supreme court case in 1876 further established the philosophy of Parens Patriae and no due process for juveniles?
1977 Dixon Bill
Special Police Force
Ah Peen
Article III of the Constitution
30. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
Evaluation
Limited
Courts
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
31. What is the average budget of a local law enforcement agency?
Chief
Formal Probation
Mala Prohibita
$1.7 million
32. What are the five levels of force among agencies?
Judicial Review
Change
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
90%
33. What was the original staffing of the U.S. Supreme Court?
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
17 -500
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Conditional Sentence
34. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?
Precedent
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Crime Control Due Process
Incapaciation
35. What are the two types of defense attorneys?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Own Recognizance
50 - 25000
Possecomintatus
36. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?
Probation Officer
Intermediate Courts
Right away
Tribal
37. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?
Retribution
Arrangement
Discretion
14th Amendment
38. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?
Future laws not passed yet
Special Police Force
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
English Common Law
39. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
County
Future laws not passed yet
40. What law enforcement agency maintains the largest training academy in the U.S.?
90 Million
Makes deals and not go to trial
F.B.I.
Pretrial Hearing
41. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
39
Potential for Incarceration
1 and 8
Preliminary Hearing
42. How many states use the death penalty?
Serpico
Pretrial Hearing
Evidence
34
43. What is the State Court System's court of last resort?
State Supreme Court
Very inactive
Stare Decisis
Judicial/Legislative
44. What is an offense that consists of illegal conduct but no jail time?
Right away
34
Infraction
John Marshall
45. What current California legal code did the Law of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses contribute to?
The Penal Code
The Family Model
Community Orientated Policing Era
London Metropolitan Police Act
46. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
Indeterminate Sentencing
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
1382
Precedent
47. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
George Washington - John Adams
Preliminary Hearing
Statue of Winchester
Judicial Review
48. When pleading guilty at a felony arrangement - what does the judge generally do for sentencing?
Attorney General
Sworn - Non-sworn
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Continue to another date
49. What Penal Code section states that the court shall refer to probation for a report?
Sheriff
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Trial
1203(b)(1) - Felony
50. During the Revolutionary War what major document helped to guide the colonies in fighting their war against Britain?
Better
90 Million
Trials
Articles of Confederation
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