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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What does a mitigating factor make the report?
London Metropolitan Police Act
Better
Dual System
Punishment without trial
2. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?
Ah Peen
U.S. Court of Appeals
1 and 8
Evidence
3. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
Pendelton Act
1382
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
F.B.I.
4. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?
Indeterminate Sentencing
County
1 and 8
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
5. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
Tribal
17
Superior Court
U.S. Court of Appeals
6. Both felonies are misdemeanors are first filed as what?
34
Complaint
Judicial System = Institutional System
State
7. The B.I.A. and the F.B.I. often provide support and assistance to what level of law enforcement agencies?
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
King John
Tribal
Infraction
8. What 1770 shooting incident heightened tensions between Boston colonists and newly arrived British soldiers?
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Special Police Force
Boston Massacre
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
9. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
State
King Henry II
Discretion
All volunteers
10. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?
830.1
4th Amendment
Discretion
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
11. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?
Body - Amendments
Precedent
830.1
Appeal
12. What is a county law enforcement agency's head administrator?
8th Amendment
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Sheriff
Potential for Incarceration
13. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Body - Amendments
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Preliminary Hearing
14. Who is referred to as the father of probation?
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
John Augustus
Life
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
15. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?
Intermediate Courts
Discretion
Very inactive
John Marshall
16. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Bench Trial
Loosely Coupled
Mary Ann Crouse
17. What 1883 federal law stressed the need for a civil service system based upon merit?
F.B.I.
Evaluation
Pendelton Act
Stamp Act of 1765
18. Under English Common Law what was the general cut off age in distinguishing between those who could charged with felonies?
Special Police Force
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
14
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
19. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
1977 Dixon Bill
Precedent
Judicial System = Institutional System
6th Amendment
20. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
Due Process Phase
State
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Evaluation
21. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
Stare Decisis
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
U.S. Constitution
Patronage and Corruption
22. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?
Very inactive
90 Million
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
National Crime Information Center
23. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
830.1
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Constitutional Law
17
24. The Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program motivated police to try what new procedures?
Tribal
Community Sensitive Programs
Sworn - Non-sworn
1977 Dixon Bill
25. What does ex-post facto law relate to?
All volunteers
Future laws not passed yet
5th Amendment
Superior Court
26. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
Sir Robert Peel
Mala en Se
Stare Decisis
Loosely Coupled
27. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
Stars
Bill of Rights
Potential for Incarceration
Serpico
28. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?
Stamp Act of 1765
Local level
90 Million
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
29. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Patronage
Jurisdiction
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
30. What English Common Law court system could arguably be seen as the world's first dedicated juvenile court?
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31. What type of bodies do our current laws come from?
Incorrigibles
Intermediate Courts
Judicial/Legislative
Arrangement
32. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?
County
Mala en Se
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Sheriff or Shireeve
33. Other then UCRS and NIBRS - what entities compile information about crime in the country?
17
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Judicial Review
Superior Court
34. What does a judge order the probation department to write in order to find more about an individual before sentencing?
Presentence Court Report
Pretrial Hearing
Very inactive
Community Orientated Policing Era
35. Negative political influence and corruption impacting 19th century U.S. police agencies was called what?
Ah Peen
Mala Prohibita
Tribal
Patronage
36. What is the point of a second preliminary hearing?
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Adversarial System
1383
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
37. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?
Trials
Pretrial Hearing
1383
1903
38. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
Future laws not passed yet
1899 Illinois
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Trials
39. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
90 Million
Preliminary Hearing
Patrick Colquhoun
Own Recognizance
40. What major 1803 U.S. Supreme Court case established that the court would begin to interpret what the constitution was all about?
Marbury versus Madison
Probation Officer
Chief
Precedent
41. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
Mala Prohibita
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Statue of Winchester
Intermediate Courts
42. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1987 as a supplement to UCRS?
Misdemeanor
Appeal
90%
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
43. What concepts attempts to protect society by isolating others?
90 Million
Incapaciation
Assistant District Attorneys
Stamp Act of 1765
44. In what year and state was the country's first dedicated juvenile justice system and court legally established?
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Appeals
Adversarial System
1899 Illinois
45. The Federal Court system was created through what?
Attorney General
Stare Decisis
Judiciary Act
Tribal
46. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?
85%
Formal Probation
Adversarial System
U.S. Postal Inspectors
47. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?
Continue to another date
Precedent
Mala en Se
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
48. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Miranda versus Arizona
Continue to another date
F.B.I.
49. What is another term for informal probation?
Conditional Sentence
Original Jurisdiction
1383
Lexington - Concord
50. After the U.S. Constitution was ratified - what type of court system did the U.S. realize it needed to have?
Aggravating - Mitigating
Federal Court System
1383
85%
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