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Criminal Justice 101
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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?
Assistant District Attorneys
U.S. Postal Inspectors
First Continental Congress
The Family Model
2. What concepts attempts to protect society by isolating others?
Incapaciation
39
Jurisdiction
Loosely Coupled System
3. Who is in charge of staffing - calender - budget - and other material needs of the court room?
Court Administrator
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Patronage
90 Million
4. What major 1803 U.S. Supreme Court case established that the court would begin to interpret what the constitution was all about?
Worse
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Mary Ann Crouse
Marbury versus Madison
5. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
830.1
90%
Potential for Incarceration
6. Jail time - restitution - contact restrictions - drug testing - searches and seizures - employment verification - and counseling can be terms of what?
Original Jurisdiction
Formal Probation
Discretion
Pretrial Hearing
7. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?
Lexington - Concord
Arrangement
Appeal
London Metropolitan Police Act
8. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
90 Million
Discretion
Court Administrator
Due Process
9. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?
14
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
10. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?
Boston Massacre
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Prison Time - Death Sentence
1382
11. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?
8th Amendment
Vigilantes
90%
Statue of Winchester
12. What are the four Cs of the criminal justice system?
Very inactive
Better
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
13. If you plea guilty at a misdemeanor arraignment - when can a judge sentence you?
Loosely Coupled System
Right away
Indeterminate Sentencing
Potential for Incarceration
14. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
Generalists
Judicial - Executive
Broken Windows
1977 Dixon Bill
15. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1930?
Potential for Incarceration
Own Recognizance
Information
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
16. What is the main criteria which determines whether a mater goes to a federal or state court?
Change
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
John Marshall
17. Other then UCRS and NIBRS - what entities compile information about crime in the country?
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Loosely Coupled System
8th Amendment
King Chamberlain's Court
18. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?
Constitutional Law
8th Amendment
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
F.B.I.
19. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
Stamp Act of 1765
Change
Future laws not passed yet
Misdemeanor
20. When court systems or levels disagree or question if rules are properly applied - what type of court is used?
Appeals
U.S. Court of Appeals
Pendelton Act
Lower Courts
21. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?
Hoover
State
4th Amendment
Preliminary Hearing
22. Generally speaking - what type of attorney is a prosecuting attorney?
Original Jurisdiction
Government Attorney
U.S. Postal Inspectors
830.1
23. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?
Evidence
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Dual System
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
24. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Generalists
Trial
Trials
25. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
5th Amendment
U.S. Postal Inspectors
26. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
Judicial Review
Articles of Confederation
Potential for Incarceration
U.S. Constitution
27. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?
Marbury versus Madison
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
14th Amendment
Mala Prohibita
28. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
State
Bill of Rights
Magna Carta
Serpico
29. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?
Complaint
King John
Own Recognizance
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
30. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
Complaint
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Sheriff
Limited
31. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?
5th Amendment
Adversarial System
Original Jurisdiction
Magna Carta
32. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?
Very inactive
Original Jurisdiction
State/Local Court System
90%
33. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?
State
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
U.S. Postal Inspectors
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
34. What does O.R. mean?
Court Administrator
Own Recognizance
Serpico
Very inactive
35. What is the average budget of a local law enforcement agency?
90 Million
Aggravating - Mitigating
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
$1.7 million
36. What was name of the era which was distinguished by the Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program?
Community Orientated Policing Era
34
Arrangement
1899 Illinois
37. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
Makes deals and not go to trial
Incapaciation
Patrick Colquhoun
All volunteers
38. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
Nolo Contendre
The Penal Code
First Continental Congress
Own Recognizance
39. What Latin term means - 'father or parent of the country?'
Parens Patriae
Adversarial System
Intermediate Courts
U.S. Constitution
40. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
Judicial - Executive
Sheriff
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Special Police Force
41. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?
Change
Yes
John Marshall
State
42. The B.I.A. and the F.B.I. often provide support and assistance to what level of law enforcement agencies?
Tribal
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
8th Amendment
43. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
Mala en Se
Limited
Adversarial System
Misdemeanor
44. What are the two types of defense attorneys?
17 -500
The Family Model
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Due Process Phase
45. How long is a federal judge's term of office for?
Very inactive
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Continue to another date
Life
46. What is another term for informal probation?
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
5th Amendment
6th Amendment
Conditional Sentence
47. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?
Patronage and Corruption
Local level
Very inactive
London Metropolitan Police Act
48. What concept attempts to alter future behaviors through threats of punishment and consequences?
Deterrence
Potential for Incarceration
F.B.I.
17
49. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
34
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
50. What law enforcement agency maintains the largest training academy in the U.S.?
Misdemeanor
17 -500
Sir Robert Peel
F.B.I.