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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?
Trial
Original Jurisdiction
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Government Attorney
2. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?
Miranda versus Arizona
8th Amendment
Conditional Sentence
Judicial Review
3. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
Judicial Review
Statue of Winchester
Judicial - Executive
The Penal Code
4. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
None
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Mala Prohibita
5. Who runs the N.C.I.C.?
F.B.I
John Augustus
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Preliminary Hearing
6. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
State
John Marshall
Courts
7. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?
Patronage and Corruption
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Government Attorney
Stamp Act of 1765
8. What was the name of the article which encouraged law enforcement not just to focus on crime - but the social factors of crime?
Habeas Corpus
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Broken Windows
Due Process
9. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Aggravating - Mitigating
Makes deals and not go to trial
Sheriff or Shireeve
10. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1987 as a supplement to UCRS?
Articles of Confederation
Evidence
Future laws not passed yet
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
11. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?
Sworn - Non-sworn
Adversarial System
Misdemeanor
Community Sensitive Programs
12. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
State
50 - 25000
Jurisdiction
Stare Decisis
13. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
The Penal Code
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Petition
Adversarial System
14. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
Precedent
Serpico
Court Room Work Group
Probation Officer
15. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
Evidence
Habeas Corpus
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Appeal
16. What is meant by inferior courts?
Lower Courts
Deterrence
14th Amendment
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
17. During the Revolutionary War what major document helped to guide the colonies in fighting their war against Britain?
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Articles of Confederation
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Judicial/Legislative
18. Generally speaking - what type of attorney is a prosecuting attorney?
The Family Model
Crime Control - Due Process
Community Sensitive Programs
Government Attorney
19. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?
Loosely Coupled System
Pendelton Act
U.S. Constitution
Very inactive
20. What was the original staffing of the U.S. Supreme Court?
Boston Massacre
Original Jurisdiction
Probation Officer
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
21. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
Crime Control - Due Process
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
85%
Judiciary Act
22. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?
Arrangement
All volunteers
Chief
Dual System
23. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Article III of the Constitution
Information
Trial
24. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
The Family Model
State
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
1977 Dixon Bill
25. Both felonies are misdemeanors are first filed as what?
Secret Service
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Complaint
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
26. 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
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
John Augustus
F.B.I
27. Under English Common Law what was the general cut off age in distinguishing between those who could charged with felonies?
Superior Court
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
14
Mala en Se
28. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Worse
4th Amendment
Dual System
29. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?
Secret Service
Tribal
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Ah Peen
30. 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?
State
First Continental Congress
Lexington - Concord
Patronage and Corruption
31. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?
Mary Ann Crouse
Mala en Se
Sir Robert Peel
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
32. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?
Felony
Judicial System = Institutional System
Stare Decisis
Sheriff
33. After the U.S. Constitution was ratified - what type of court system did the U.S. realize it needed to have?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Crime Control Due Process
State/Local Court System
Federal Court System
34. Which 1760s British tax law placed tax quotes on all paper based products imported into the colonies?
1899 Illinois
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
State
Stamp Act of 1765
35. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?
Hoover
Crime Control Due Process
Makes deals and not go to trial
Sheriff or Shireeve
36. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
Nolo Contendre
Mary Ann Crouse
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Tribal
37. Which of the five major phases in the criminal justice system since 1965 produced major case law?
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Future laws not passed yet
Due Process Phase
George Washington - John Adams
38. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?
Local level
1382
John Marshall
State Supreme Court
39. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?
County
17 -500
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Prison Time - Death Sentence
40. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?
830.1
Discretion
Superior Court
1903
41. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Attorney General
King John
Pretrial Hearing
42. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?
Stare Decisis
Mala Prohibita
Infraction
Community Orientated Policing Era
43. What is the name for a felony complaint?
U.S. Constitution
Information
Life
Dual System
44. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?
1903
Judicial - Executive
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
45. Where does a felony case begin?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
F.B.I
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Tribal
46. What current California legal code did the Law of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses contribute to?
The Penal Code
Evaluation
Tribal
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
47. The average local law enforcement agency will often employ how many officers and serve what size population?
Sheriff or Shireeve
Jurisdiction
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
50 - 25000
48. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Limited
17 -500
49. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
Life
Secret Service
Aggravating - Mitigating
Adversarial System
50. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?
1977 Dixon Bill
Lexington - Concord
Limited
Precedent
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