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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?
Court Room Work Group
Intermediate Courts
King Chamberlain's Court
Judicial System = Institutional System
2. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
Boston Massacre
Local level
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
State
3. What Latin term means great paper?
State
Punishment without trial
Magna Carta
Lexington - Concord
4. During the Revolutionary War what major document helped to guide the colonies in fighting their war against Britain?
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Own Recognizance
Incorrigibles
Articles of Confederation
5. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?
King Henry II
None
Patronage and Corruption
Secret Service
6. What type of bodies do our current laws come from?
14
Judicial/Legislative
17 -500
Ah Peen
7. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Magna Carta
Precedent
Adversarial System
8. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
Dual System
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Loosely Coupled System
Community Sensitive Programs
9. What is another term for informal probation?
Conditional Sentence
Miranda versus Arizona
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
10. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?
Possecomintatus
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
17 -500
Body - Amendments
11. How is a jury panel selected?
Superior Court
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
14
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
12. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Chief
Own Recognizance
All volunteers
13. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
Change
Judicial - Executive
King Chamberlain's Court
14
14. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
All volunteers
Possecomintatus
Habeas Corpus
Potential for Incarceration
15. What is the name for a juvenile complaint?
Judiciary Act
Petition
Local level
830.1
16. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?
8th Amendment
None
1383
U.S. Court of Appeals
17. Negative political influence and corruption impacting 19th century U.S. police agencies was called what?
Felony
Mary Ann Crouse
U.S. Constitution
Patronage
18. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?
Crime Control Due Process
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Statue of Winchester
Sworn - Non-sworn
19. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
Intermediate Courts
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Presentence Court Report
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
20. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?
Felony
Stare Decisis
Judicial System = Institutional System
Government Attorney
21. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Attorney General
Loosely Coupled System
1203(b)(1) - Felony
22. In what year and state was the country's first dedicated juvenile justice system and court legally established?
Probation Officer
1899 Illinois
London Metropolitan Police Act
5th Amendment
23. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
1382
State/Local Court System
24. Who is referred to as the father of probation?
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
John Augustus
25. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
Indeterminate Sentencing
Serpico
1977 Dixon Bill
State
26. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
1382
Punishment without trial
Judiciary Act
Due Process
27. What do the majority of cases going into the U.S. District Court involve?
All volunteers
Complaint
Due Process Phase
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
28. What is the average budget of a local law enforcement agency?
Evidence
1977 Dixon Bill
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
$1.7 million
29. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Courts
The Penal Code
Articles of Confederation
30. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
830.1
Appeal
Judiciary Act
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
31. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
None
6th Amendment
Vigilantes
32. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Judicial - Executive
Broken Windows
Future laws not passed yet
Court Administrator
33. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?
Jurisdiction
Mary Ann Crouse
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
34
34. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
U.S. Constitution
Statue of Winchester
50 - 25000
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
35. Local California courts which handle misdemeanors - minor civil matters - and traffic violations are called what?
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Stare Decisis
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Generalists
36. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?
Patrick Colquhoun
U.S. Constitution
Appeal
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
37. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
Bench Trial
830.1
Federal Court System
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
38. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?
Patrick Colquhoun
Very inactive
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
39. Does a county law enforcement agency head administrator generally require law enforcement experience?
Yes
Aggravating - Mitigating
Judicial Review
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
40. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?
Boston Massacre
Court Room Work Group
Statue of Winchester
1383
41. What does a preliminary hearing determine?
$1.7 million
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Probation Officer
42. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?
Formal Probation
8th Amendment
Right away
39
43. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?
English Common Law
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Evaluation
King Chamberlain's Court
44. What concept discusses 'an eye for an eye'?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
State
Retribution
1903
45. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
Tribal
8th Amendment
Nolo Contendre
Hoover
46. Where does a felony case begin?
Patrick Colquhoun
Judicial Review
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
17 -500
47. What are the two main functions of criminal courts?
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48. Under English Common Law what was the general cut off age in distinguishing between those who could charged with felonies?
14
Right away
Article III of the Constitution
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
49. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
Crime Control Due Process
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Presentence Court Report
Preliminary Hearing
50. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
8th Amendment
Parens Patriae
Aggravating - Mitigating
State