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Criminal Justice 101
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1. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Local level
F.B.I
2. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?
Appeal
Deterrence
F.B.I
Right away
3. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
Bench Trial
Community Orientated Policing Era
Evaluation
John Marshall
4. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
50 - 25000
5th Amendment
Deterrence
Evaluation
5. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
Appeal
Boston Massacre
U.S. Federal District Courts
None
6. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
Judiciary Act
5th Amendment
Stare Decisis
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
7. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?
Future laws not passed yet
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
14th Amendment
39
8. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
Bill of Rights
Own Recognizance
Trials
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
9. After the U.S. Constitution was ratified - what type of court system did the U.S. realize it needed to have?
Superior Court
Generalists
Federal Court System
Adversarial System
10. What do the majority of cases going into the U.S. District Court involve?
Due Process Phase
Habeas Corpus
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Pendelton Act
11. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
12. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?
Sheriff or Shireeve
Original Jurisdiction
Preliminary Hearing
Possecomintatus
13. What is the name for a felony complaint?
Information
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
U.S. Court of Appeals
Intermediate Courts
14. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
Stare Decisis
State
Judicial System = Institutional System
Change
15. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
Vigilantes
Judiciary Act
Punishment without trial
Habeas Corpus
16. What 1770 shooting incident heightened tensions between Boston colonists and newly arrived British soldiers?
State
830.1
Worse
Boston Massacre
17. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?
Attorney General
State/Local Court System
Pretrial Hearing
Judicial System = Institutional System
18. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
Body - Amendments
Statue of Winchester
Government Attorney
Future laws not passed yet
19. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Article III of the Constitution
State Supreme Court
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
20. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
John Marshall
Boston Massacre
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
21. What are the two main functions of criminal courts?
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22. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?
Sir Robert Peel
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Pretrial Hearing
Original Jurisdiction
23. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
English Common Law
Judicial - Executive
Jurisdiction
24. What do bills of attainer relate to?
5th Amendment
National Crime Information Center
Patronage and Corruption
Punishment without trial
25. What is an offense that consists of illegal conduct but no jail time?
Infraction
State
King Chamberlain's Court
Retribution
26. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
King Henry II
Mary Ann Crouse
State
27. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?
90 Million
Article III of the Constitution
County
Arrangement
28. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?
Crime Control - Due Process
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
50 - 25000
4th Amendment
29. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
F.B.I.
Change
Court Administrator
Lower Courts
30. Is the Federal or State court system older?
Sir Robert Peel
Possecomintatus
State
Appeals
31. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?
Judicial System = Institutional System
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Very inactive
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
32. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?
Preliminary Hearing
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Sheriff
George Washington - John Adams
33. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
1383
Appeal
Judicial - Executive
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
34. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?
Jurisdiction
Due Process
Courts
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
35. Negative political influence and corruption impacting 19th century U.S. police agencies was called what?
Chief
State
Patronage
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
36. What Penal Code section states that the court may refer to probation for a report?
Appeals
U.S. Constitution
34
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
37. What is a local law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Adversarial System
Chief
Mary Ann Crouse
17 -500
38. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?
Original Jurisdiction
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Local level
39
39. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?
Very inactive
Precedent
Sir Robert Peel
Limited
40. What concept attempts to alter future behaviors through threats of punishment and consequences?
None
Crime Control Due Process
Assistant District Attorneys
Deterrence
41. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?
Arrangement
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Attorney General
42. What was the name of the article which encouraged law enforcement not just to focus on crime - but the social factors of crime?
London Metropolitan Police Act
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Discretion
Broken Windows
43. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
Serpico
U.S. Marshall's
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
44. When court systems or levels disagree or question if rules are properly applied - what type of court is used?
Judiciary Act
Judicial System = Institutional System
Appeals
1 and 8
45. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?
Presentence Court Report
1 and 8
Intermediate Courts
George Washington - John Adams
46. What does a mitigating factor make the report?
Better
State
$1.7 million
Incapaciation
47. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
Secret Service
All volunteers
Mala Prohibita
Constitutional Law
48. In what year and state was the country's first dedicated juvenile justice system and court legally established?
Patronage
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
1899 Illinois
F.B.I.
49. Where does a felony case begin?
50 - 25000
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Pendelton Act
50. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?
Body - Amendments
Conditional Sentence
Trial
Generalists