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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?
Assistant District Attorneys
1383
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Attorney General
2. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
King Henry II
$1.7 million
Stare Decisis
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
3. What Latin term means great paper?
King John
Mala Prohibita
Pendelton Act
Magna Carta
4. What law enforcement agency maintains the largest training academy in the U.S.?
Due Process
F.B.I.
Patrick Colquhoun
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
5. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?
State
State Supreme Court
Trial
Vigilantes
6. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
Nolo Contendre
85%
Marbury versus Madison
Judicial - Executive
7. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?
Miranda versus Arizona
The Penal Code
Loosely Coupled
Stamp Act of 1765
8. Jail time - restitution - contact restrictions - drug testing - searches and seizures - employment verification - and counseling can be terms of what?
Formal Probation
Loosely Coupled System
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
14
9. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?
Intermediate Courts
1 and 8
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
10. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?
90 Million
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Judicial Review
Crime Control - Due Process
11. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
Original Jurisdiction
Precedent
Serpico
F.B.I
12. Who is in charge of staffing - calender - budget - and other material needs of the court room?
Serpico
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
State
Court Administrator
13. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
$1.7 million
Due Process Phase
Stare Decisis
Habeas Corpus
14. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Incorrigibles
None
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
15. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Change
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
16. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?
Nolo Contendre
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
English Common Law
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
17. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?
1382
Evaluation
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Probation Officer
18. What is the State Court System's court of last resort?
State Supreme Court
Chief
Community Orientated Policing Era
Adversarial System
19. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
Indeterminate Sentencing
Discretion
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Information
20. After the U.S. Constitution was ratified - what type of court system did the U.S. realize it needed to have?
Community Orientated Policing Era
Federal Court System
17 -500
State
21. In 1789 which London magistrate stressed the need for a 'centralized' law enforcement agency?
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
King Chamberlain's Court
Marbury versus Madison
Patrick Colquhoun
22. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?
Complaint
Change
Makes deals and not go to trial
Article III of the Constitution
23. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
Intermediate Courts
830.1
Community Orientated Policing Era
1977 Dixon Bill
24. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
90 Million
Tribal
Hoover
Local level
25. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
Special Police Force
State
Makes deals and not go to trial
U.S. Court of Appeals
26. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?
Judicial - Executive
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
34
Evidence
27. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?
Community Sensitive Programs
Jurisdiction
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Incorrigibles
28. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?
Appeal
King John
Mary Ann Crouse
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
29. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
John Augustus
Future laws not passed yet
Bill of Rights
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
30. What is the name for a felony complaint?
8th Amendment
Sworn - Non-sworn
Nolo Contendre
Information
31. What was the original staffing of the U.S. Supreme Court?
Lexington - Concord
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Article III of the Constitution
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
32. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1987 as a supplement to UCRS?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
John Augustus
Trials
Bill of Rights
33. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?
39
Due Process Phase
Intermediate Courts
14th Amendment
34. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
Mary Ann Crouse
Incapaciation
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
State Supreme Court
35. What concept discusses 'an eye for an eye'?
Retribution
Incapaciation
Original Jurisdiction
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
36. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
Stare Decisis
Discretion
Continue to another date
Indeterminate Sentencing
37. Is the Federal or State court system older?
Vigilantes
1899 Illinois
State
Federal Court System
38. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?
Evidence
Crime Control Due Process
14
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
39. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?
1903
Trials
Possecomintatus
14
40. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
Change
Community Sensitive Programs
Stamp Act of 1765
4th Amendment
41. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?
Habeas Corpus
17 -500
Incapaciation
1903
42. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
Statue of Winchester
King John
Discretion
1 and 8
43. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
Federal Court System
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Generalists
Secret Service
44. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1930?
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Presentence Court Report
34
Life
45. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?
Judicial/Legislative
6th Amendment
Lower Courts
Punishment without trial
46. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?
14th Amendment
Discretion
Body - Amendments
Discretion
47. In what year and state was the country's first dedicated juvenile justice system and court legally established?
Makes deals and not go to trial
Ah Peen
6th Amendment
1899 Illinois
48. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?
U.S. Marshall's
Habeas Corpus
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
49. What are the two main functions of criminal courts?
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50. In Orange County - what type of prosecuting attorneys handle the day to day issues in the court room?
The Family Model
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
None
Assistant District Attorneys