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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
King John
Better
Government Attorney
2. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
Special Police Force
Discretion
Judicial - Executive
Trials
3. The three federal courts are known as what?
Tribal
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
4. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?
Information
Dual System
Sheriff or Shireeve
Intermediate Courts
5. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?
5th Amendment
Government Attorney
Original Jurisdiction
Yes
6. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Due Process
Preliminary Hearing
John Augustus
7. What Latin term means - 'father or parent of the country?'
F.B.I.
Parens Patriae
17 -500
Dual System
8. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?
Punishment without trial
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Judicial - Executive
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
9. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?
Very inactive
Continue to another date
Evaluation
Broken Windows
10. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?
90%
Precedent
1899 Illinois
Court Administrator
11. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
Generalists
17 -500
Mala en Se
Bill of Rights
12. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
Discretion
Courts
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
F.B.I.
13. What are the two types of defense attorneys?
All volunteers
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Habeas Corpus
14. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?
1 and 8
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Conditional Sentence
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
15. What Penal Code section states that the court shall refer to probation for a report?
Superior Court
1203(b)(1) - Felony
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Deterrence
16. What does O.R. mean?
Own Recognizance
Bench Trial
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Aggravating - Mitigating
17. What major 1803 U.S. Supreme Court case established that the court would begin to interpret what the constitution was all about?
Vigilantes
Dual System
Marbury versus Madison
Boston Massacre
18. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?
Tribal
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Change
Attorney General
19. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?
Discretion
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Stamp Act of 1765
Dual System
20. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Adversarial System
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Community Orientated Policing Era
21. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
Bench Trial
Attorney General
Evaluation
90%
22. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?
Infraction
6th Amendment
Conditional Sentence
Parens Patriae
23. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?
Pretrial Hearing
Mary Ann Crouse
Indeterminate Sentencing
Discretion
24. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?
Judiciary Act
Superior Court
1903
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
25. Under English Common Law what was the general cut off age in distinguishing between those who could charged with felonies?
Nolo Contendre
14
Sir Robert Peel
17
26. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?
Judicial - Executive
State/Local Court System
Potential for Incarceration
Sir Robert Peel
27. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?
Marbury versus Madison
Discretion
8th Amendment
Tribal
28. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
John Augustus
1977 Dixon Bill
Crime Control Due Process
Change
29. What English Common Law court system could arguably be seen as the world's first dedicated juvenile court?
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30. What is an offense that consists of illegal conduct but no jail time?
Infraction
Tribal
50 - 25000
Tribal
31. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?
Mala en Se
Government Attorney
39
Boston Massacre
32. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
Court Administrator
King Henry II
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
U.S. Marshall's
33. In which two locations did the actual shooting war begin between British soldiers and Colonial militia men?
Superior Court
Lexington - Concord
Assistant District Attorneys
State/Local Court System
34. Local California courts which handle misdemeanors - minor civil matters - and traffic violations are called what?
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Evaluation
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Patronage
35. The Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program motivated police to try what new procedures?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
State
Arrangement
Community Sensitive Programs
36. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?
Jurisdiction
Generalists
17
Crime Control - Due Process
37. What are the four Cs of the criminal justice system?
Government Attorney
Change
1899 Illinois
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
38. What are the five levels of force among agencies?
Courts
Deterrence
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Pendelton Act
39. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Possecomintatus
Due Process
U.S. Federal District Courts
40. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?
Indeterminate Sentencing
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Aggravating - Mitigating
King Henry II
41. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?
Loosely Coupled System
Article III of the Constitution
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Adversarial System
42. Where does a felony case begin?
London Metropolitan Police Act
Tribal
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Mary Ann Crouse
43. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
Incorrigibles
Discretion
5th Amendment
Incapaciation
44. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
Special Police Force
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Yes
U.S. Constitution
45. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
Evidence
Sheriff or Shireeve
Potential for Incarceration
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
46. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?
Loosely Coupled System
Information
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Makes deals and not go to trial
47. What is the average budget of a local law enforcement agency?
Tribal
$1.7 million
1383
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
48. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?
Possecomintatus
Sir Robert Peel
90%
Serpico
49. Who were the country's first president and vice president?
Lower Courts
8th Amendment
George Washington - John Adams
Petition
50. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
Court Administrator
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
1383
Stamp Act of 1765