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Criminal Justice 101
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. How many states use the death penalty?
National Crime Information Center
Infraction
1903
34
2. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
State
Indeterminate Sentencing
$1.7 million
Right away
3. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
90 Million
Article III of the Constitution
Precedent
4. Both felonies are misdemeanors are first filed as what?
Sir Robert Peel
The Family Model
Parens Patriae
Complaint
5. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?
Precedent
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
4th Amendment
U.S. Marshall's
6. Who is in charge of staffing - calender - budget - and other material needs of the court room?
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Sworn - Non-sworn
Court Administrator
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
7. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
Original Jurisdiction
Community Orientated Policing Era
Potential for Incarceration
Adversarial System
8. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?
Patronage
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
County
Trial
9. Is the Federal or State court system older?
Original Jurisdiction
State
County
Habeas Corpus
10. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
Bench Trial
Generalists
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
11. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?
1382
U.S. Marshall's
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
King John
12. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?
8th Amendment
U.S. Court of Appeals
Article III of the Constitution
Possecomintatus
13. What 1770 shooting incident heightened tensions between Boston colonists and newly arrived British soldiers?
Judiciary Act
17 -500
Boston Massacre
Discretion
14. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
Chief
Judiciary Act
Possecomintatus
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
15. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?
Deterrence
Appeal
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Felony
16. What major 1829 English law created a centralized urban police force in London?
Special Police Force
U.S. Postal Inspectors
London Metropolitan Police Act
17 -500
17. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
State
Lower Courts
90 Million
Change
18. What are the oldest law enforcement agencies in the country?
19. What is the main criteria which determines whether a mater goes to a federal or state court?
1382
Very inactive
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
20. What 1865 federal law enforcement agency was initially responsible for excessive counterfeiting following the civil war?
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Secret Service
Parens Patriae
Constitutional Law
21. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
Mala Prohibita
County
U.S. Constitution
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
22. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Sir Robert Peel
1903
Court Room Work Group
23. What is discovery?
Evidence
Felony
Secret Service
County
24. What are the five levels of force among agencies?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
All volunteers
Sir Robert Peel
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
25. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?
Lexington - Concord
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
90%
Body - Amendments
26. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?
U.S. Federal District Courts
Continue to another date
Evaluation
Patronage and Corruption
27. If you plea guilty at a misdemeanor arraignment - when can a judge sentence you?
Discretion
Loosely Coupled
Right away
6th Amendment
28. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Makes deals and not go to trial
National Crime Information Center
Discretion
29. What 1838 Ohio State Supreme Court Case established the concept of Parens Patriae and no need for due process in juvenile matters?
Mary Ann Crouse
Appeals
Original Jurisdiction
State
30. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?
Sheriff or Shireeve
Federal Court System
Complaint
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
31. What two factors does a probation officer consider when writing the presentence report?
Appeal
Hoover
Aggravating - Mitigating
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
32. Under English Common Law what was the general cut off age in distinguishing between those who could charged with felonies?
14
Bench Trial
Punishment without trial
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
33. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?
Bench Trial
Infraction
State
John Augustus
34. What Penal Code section states that the court shall refer to probation for a report?
Indeterminate Sentencing
State
London Metropolitan Police Act
1203(b)(1) - Felony
35. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?
Original Jurisdiction
Crime Control Due Process
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
36. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?
Habeas Corpus
The Family Model
17 -500
King John
37. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
Patronage and Corruption
Special Police Force
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
F.B.I
38. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?
State
Mala Prohibita
Judicial/Legislative
6th Amendment
39. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
Discretion
Loosely Coupled System
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Pendelton Act
40. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?
U.S. Federal District Courts
Arrangement
County
Local level
41. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?
Evidence
The Penal Code
Evaluation
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
42. When pleading guilty at a felony arrangement - what does the judge generally do for sentencing?
Retribution
Mala en Se
Continue to another date
8th Amendment
43. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Due Process
44. What does a preliminary hearing determine?
Court Room Work Group
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Miranda versus Arizona
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
45. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
Assistant District Attorneys
State
None
39
46. What are the two types of defense attorneys?
Broken Windows
Own Recognizance
Potential for Incarceration
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
47. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
Trial
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Stars
State
48. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
90%
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Punishment without trial
U.S. Postal Inspectors
49. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?
Attorney General
Tribal
1977 Dixon Bill
Sworn - Non-sworn
50. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
Court Room Work Group
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
17 -500
Boston Massacre