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Criminal Justice 101
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
First Continental Congress
Trials
Presentence Court Report
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
2. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
Attorney General
5th Amendment
Misdemeanor
Judicial - Executive
3. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
Preliminary Hearing
U.S. Federal District Courts
Makes deals and not go to trial
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
4. What are the oldest law enforcement agencies in the country?
5. What are the five levels of force among agencies?
Articles of Confederation
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
State
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
6. What west coast supreme court case in 1876 further established the philosophy of Parens Patriae and no due process for juveniles?
Felony
Ah Peen
Constitutional Law
Courts
7. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?
Original Jurisdiction
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Jurisdiction
Conditional Sentence
8. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
Sir Robert Peel
Probation Officer
Discretion
Judicial/Legislative
9. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?
First Continental Congress
All volunteers
English Common Law
14th Amendment
10. What 1770 shooting incident heightened tensions between Boston colonists and newly arrived British soldiers?
Judiciary Act
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Sheriff
Boston Massacre
11. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?
The Penal Code
39
State
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
12. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?
Evidence
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Attorney General
Patronage and Corruption
13. Who were the country's first president and vice president?
George Washington - John Adams
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Due Process Phase
U.S. Postal Inspectors
14. What was the original staffing of the U.S. Supreme Court?
Discretion
Discretion
Continue to another date
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
15. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
Special Police Force
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
First Continental Congress
16. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?
Preliminary Hearing
Presentence Court Report
1903
Mala en Se
17. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
King John
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Hoover
18. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Broken Windows
Hoover
19. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?
State
Sir Robert Peel
1382
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
20. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
Loosely Coupled
State
90%
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
21. What is the point of a second preliminary hearing?
Original Jurisdiction
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
County
22. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?
Judiciary Act
F.B.I
Intermediate Courts
State/Local Court System
23. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Conditional Sentence
Felony
Body - Amendments
24. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?
Adversarial System
King Chamberlain's Court
Pretrial Hearing
Court Administrator
25. Who said - 'The police are the public and the public are the police'?
Sir Robert Peel
Magna Carta
Appeal
U.S. Constitution
26. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?
Vigilantes
50 - 25000
Potential for Incarceration
Original Jurisdiction
27. What were minors who disobeyed orders of the Kings Chancery Court system called?
Articles of Confederation
Stars
Incapaciation
Incorrigibles
28. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?
Patrick Colquhoun
State
Stare Decisis
Local level
29. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Probation Officer
The Penal Code
U.S. Postal Inspectors
30. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Potential for Incarceration
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Loosely Coupled System
31. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
Evaluation
Aggravating - Mitigating
U.S. Constitution
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
32. In which two locations did the actual shooting war begin between British soldiers and Colonial militia men?
Lexington - Concord
Stamp Act of 1765
Possecomintatus
830.1
33. What is the Latin term that means evil or bad in itself?
County
County
Tribal
Mala en Se
34. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?
17 -500
Due Process Phase
Mary Ann Crouse
Secret Service
35. Both felonies are misdemeanors are first filed as what?
Complaint
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
George Washington - John Adams
Petition
36. In 1829 which English government employee pushed a new law which followed the ideas of Patrick Colquhoun?
Infraction
Sir Robert Peel
Original Jurisdiction
F.B.I
37. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Judicial Review
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Nolo Contendre
38. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Original Jurisdiction
All volunteers
1382
39. What Latin term means great paper?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Ah Peen
Magna Carta
40. What does N.C.I.C. stand for?
Judicial Review
National Crime Information Center
Yes
Intermediate Courts
41. What concept discusses 'an eye for an eye'?
Community Sensitive Programs
Articles of Confederation
Potential for Incarceration
Retribution
42. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Original Jurisdiction
Tribal
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
43. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?
Attorney General
Judiciary Act
Continue to another date
17
44. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
State
F.B.I.
Discretion
14th Amendment
45. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
Local level
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
F.B.I.
Incorrigibles
46. What concept attempts to alter future behaviors through threats of punishment and consequences?
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Deterrence
Makes deals and not go to trial
Crime Control Due Process
47. What do bills of attainer relate to?
Deterrence
Parens Patriae
Punishment without trial
London Metropolitan Police Act
48. In Orange County - what type of prosecuting attorneys handle the day to day issues in the court room?
85%
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
John Augustus
Assistant District Attorneys
49. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
Statue of Winchester
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Future laws not passed yet
Miranda versus Arizona
50. What two factors does a probation officer consider when writing the presentence report?
Aggravating - Mitigating
Local level
Discretion
1903