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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
Judiciary Act
1 and 8
Original Jurisdiction
Body - Amendments
2. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?
8th Amendment
Miranda versus Arizona
Stare Decisis
Trial
3. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
State/Local Court System
4th Amendment
Judicial - Executive
4. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?
Tribal
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
34
Patronage
5. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
Parens Patriae
Judiciary Act
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Discretion
6. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
U.S. Marshall's
The Family Model
39
7. What west coast supreme court case in 1876 further established the philosophy of Parens Patriae and no due process for juveniles?
Ah Peen
Trial
Judiciary Act
830.1
8. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
Sheriff or Shireeve
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Judicial - Executive
All volunteers
9. The Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program motivated police to try what new procedures?
$1.7 million
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Superior Court
Community Sensitive Programs
10. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
None
State
Crime Control - Due Process
Information
11. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
Judiciary Act
5th Amendment
Stare Decisis
Deterrence
12. What does ex-post facto law relate to?
Federal Court System
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Future laws not passed yet
Judicial/Legislative
13. If you plea guilty at a misdemeanor arraignment - when can a judge sentence you?
Right away
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Discretion
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
14. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
Nolo Contendre
Trials
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
34
15. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?
Patronage
Presentence Court Report
Stamp Act of 1765
Original Jurisdiction
16. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
Formal Probation
Infraction
1 and 8
1382
17. What does an aggravating factor make the report?
All volunteers
Stare Decisis
Worse
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
18. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1930?
Crime Control Due Process
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Worse
Due Process
19. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
Adversarial System
Discretion
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
20. Local California courts which handle misdemeanors - minor civil matters - and traffic violations are called what?
Lower Courts
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Sworn - Non-sworn
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
21. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?
Hoover
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
6th Amendment
Crime Control - Due Process
22. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
Future laws not passed yet
1903
Assistant District Attorneys
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
23. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?
6th Amendment
U.S. Court of Appeals
Right away
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
24. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
Serpico
Mala Prohibita
Dual System
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
25. What is the State Court System's court of last resort?
Intermediate Courts
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
U.S. Postal Inspectors
State Supreme Court
26. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?
Makes deals and not go to trial
John Augustus
Deterrence
Intermediate Courts
27. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?
5th Amendment
John Augustus
Possecomintatus
Jurisdiction
28. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
Constitutional Law
State
Vigilantes
Intermediate Courts
29. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
Government Attorney
Bill of Rights
Continue to another date
Discretion
30. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?
F.B.I.
Patronage
Superior Court
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
31. What concept discusses 'an eye for an eye'?
Local level
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Retribution
Infraction
32. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
First Continental Congress
Community Sensitive Programs
County
33. The third federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
U.S. Federal District Courts
Very inactive
Evidence
34. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?
1383
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Judiciary Act
Patronage and Corruption
35. What was the name of the article which encouraged law enforcement not just to focus on crime - but the social factors of crime?
Life
Broken Windows
Patronage
Pretrial Hearing
36. What do the majority of cases going into the U.S. District Court involve?
King John
First Continental Congress
Incapaciation
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
37. What were minors who disobeyed orders of the Kings Chancery Court system called?
Conditional Sentence
830.1
Deterrence
Incorrigibles
38. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?
Patronage
Hoover
830.1
Formal Probation
39. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?
Judicial System = Institutional System
Court Room Work Group
Patrick Colquhoun
Evaluation
40. 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
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Infraction
1382
41. What do bills of attainer relate to?
Deterrence
Punishment without trial
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Infraction
42. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?
Sir Robert Peel
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
50 - 25000
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
43. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?
Discretion
Judiciary Act
Life
Right away
44. Which of the five major phases in the criminal justice system since 1965 produced major case law?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Judicial System = Institutional System
Due Process Phase
14
45. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
Sheriff
6th Amendment
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Indeterminate Sentencing
46. What is the Latin term that means evil or bad in itself?
Mala en Se
Judicial/Legislative
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
47. What two things do military police entities possess?
Pendelton Act
U.S. Federal District Courts
Judicial System = Institutional System
Community Sensitive Programs
48. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Pretrial Hearing
90 Million
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
49. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Pretrial Hearing
Possecomintatus
50. In what year and state was the country's first dedicated juvenile justice system and court legally established?
Petition
Preliminary Hearing
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
1899 Illinois