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Criminal Justice 101
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1. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
17 -500
Intermediate Courts
Habeas Corpus
U.S. Marshall's
2. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
Adversarial System
Chief
6th Amendment
U.S. Constitution
3. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
Government Attorney
1203(b)(1) - Felony
14
Special Police Force
4. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?
Evaluation
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
The Penal Code
5. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
14
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Evidence
Statue of Winchester
6. What does O.R. mean?
Patronage and Corruption
Petition
Own Recognizance
Court Room Work Group
7. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Sworn - Non-sworn
Court Room Work Group
Constitutional Law
8. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
Potential for Incarceration
1899 Illinois
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
50 - 25000
9. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?
State
1977 Dixon Bill
17 -500
Pretrial Hearing
10. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
Retribution
Mary Ann Crouse
Stare Decisis
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
11. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
Retribution
U.S. Court of Appeals
Dual System
Misdemeanor
12. Who is referred to as the father of probation?
Future laws not passed yet
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Potential for Incarceration
John Augustus
13. What legal model first attempted the concept of rehabilitation and resocialization?
The Family Model
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
1903
14. Where does a felony case begin?
Very inactive
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Hoover
14
15. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?
Aggravating - Mitigating
Broken Windows
F.B.I.
Possecomintatus
16. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
Continue to another date
Bill of Rights
Misdemeanor
Court Administrator
17. What concepts attempts to protect society by isolating others?
Yes
Stare Decisis
Incapaciation
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
18. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
Appeal
85%
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Courts
19. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?
Jurisdiction
Sir Robert Peel
Attorney General
State
20. Local California courts which handle misdemeanors - minor civil matters - and traffic violations are called what?
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
14th Amendment
Incorrigibles
Aggravating - Mitigating
21. What concept attempts to alter future behaviors through threats of punishment and consequences?
Indeterminate Sentencing
Possecomintatus
Mala Prohibita
Deterrence
22. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?
King Chamberlain's Court
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Jurisdiction
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
23. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
90 Million
Sworn - Non-sworn
Local level
Special Police Force
24. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Bench Trial
17 -500
25. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?
Discretion
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Preliminary Hearing
Crime Control Due Process
26. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?
Sir Robert Peel
Community Orientated Policing Era
Sworn - Non-sworn
King John
27. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Stars
Presentence Court Report
Trial
28. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
F.B.I
17 -500
Adversarial System
29. What does a preliminary hearing determine?
F.B.I.
Stamp Act of 1765
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Ah Peen
30. The average local law enforcement agency will often employ how many officers and serve what size population?
Patronage
50 - 25000
The Penal Code
Patronage and Corruption
31. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?
State
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
39
Petition
32. What is the point of a second preliminary hearing?
Courts
Appeal
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
1 and 8
33. Does a county law enforcement agency head administrator generally require law enforcement experience?
Yes
George Washington - John Adams
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Patrick Colquhoun
34. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
Bench Trial
Probation Officer
Judicial Review
National Crime Information Center
35. In 1789 which London magistrate stressed the need for a 'centralized' law enforcement agency?
Worse
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Patrick Colquhoun
Sheriff or Shireeve
36. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?
County
Bench Trial
Statue of Winchester
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
37. During the Revolutionary War what major document helped to guide the colonies in fighting their war against Britain?
Courts
39
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Articles of Confederation
38. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
Due Process Phase
Jurisdiction
All volunteers
Judicial Review
39. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Due Process
State
Discretion
40. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?
Adversarial System
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Assistant District Attorneys
Punishment without trial
41. In Orange County - what type of prosecuting attorneys handle the day to day issues in the court room?
King Chamberlain's Court
Makes deals and not go to trial
Assistant District Attorneys
Own Recognizance
42. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
Indeterminate Sentencing
Loosely Coupled System
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
17 -500
43. When pleading guilty at a felony arrangement - what does the judge generally do for sentencing?
Sir Robert Peel
Continue to another date
Precedent
Life
44. What is the average budget of a local law enforcement agency?
Government Attorney
$1.7 million
Tribal
Makes deals and not go to trial
45. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?
4th Amendment
Judicial/Legislative
Indeterminate Sentencing
1383
46. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?
The Family Model
Trials
National Crime Information Center
State/Local Court System
47. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?
Appeal
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Superior Court
48. Is the Federal or State court system older?
Future laws not passed yet
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
King Henry II
State
49. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?
Body - Amendments
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Mala Prohibita
Change
50. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
1383
Constitutional Law
Limited
Mala Prohibita