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Criminal Justice 101
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is discovery?
Constitutional Law
85%
Loosely Coupled System
Evidence
2. What 1883 federal law stressed the need for a civil service system based upon merit?
Pendelton Act
830.1
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
3. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?
Deterrence
Jurisdiction
Tribal
Assistant District Attorneys
4. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?
14
Stars
Punishment without trial
State/Local Court System
5. What are the oldest law enforcement agencies in the country?
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6. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Courts
4th Amendment
Marbury versus Madison
7. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
34
Appeals
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Statue of Winchester
8. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?
17 -500
50 - 25000
Discretion
John Marshall
9. What does ex-post facto law relate to?
Information
Future laws not passed yet
Loosely Coupled System
Appeals
10. If you plea guilty at a misdemeanor arraignment - when can a judge sentence you?
85%
Articles of Confederation
90 Million
Right away
11. What does N.C.I.C. stand for?
All volunteers
National Crime Information Center
Discretion
U.S. Marshall's
12. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
Indeterminate Sentencing
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Stare Decisis
$1.7 million
13. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
U.S. Constitution
Formal Probation
London Metropolitan Police Act
1203(b)(1) - Felony
14. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?
U.S. Federal District Courts
1903
Tribal
State
15. What federal law enforcement agency delegated peace officer powers to citizens during the era of the wild west?
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16. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Adversarial System
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
17. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?
Discretion
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
14
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
18. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
State
Indeterminate Sentencing
Secret Service
Adversarial System
19. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
Local level
Appeal
6th Amendment
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
20. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
1899 Illinois
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Change
21. What were minors who disobeyed orders of the Kings Chancery Court system called?
Constitutional Law
None
Incorrigibles
Punishment without trial
22. What does an aggravating factor make the report?
4th Amendment
Patronage and Corruption
Worse
Mary Ann Crouse
23. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?
Possecomintatus
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
1383
1977 Dixon Bill
24. In Orange County - what type of prosecuting attorneys handle the day to day issues in the court room?
Assistant District Attorneys
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
F.B.I.
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
25. What 1838 Ohio State Supreme Court Case established the concept of Parens Patriae and no need for due process in juvenile matters?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Mary Ann Crouse
Judicial System = Institutional System
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
26. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
F.B.I.
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Hoover
Generalists
27. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
King John
Punishment without trial
Serpico
28. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
Trials
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Chief
Sir Robert Peel
29. How is a jury panel selected?
Chief
Aggravating - Mitigating
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
John Marshall
30. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?
Serpico
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
830.1
Stars
31. How long is a federal judge's term of office for?
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
John Marshall
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Life
32. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
Stare Decisis
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Vigilantes
Stamp Act of 1765
33. What does O.R. mean?
Continue to another date
Appeal
Boston Massacre
Own Recognizance
34. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
Information
Discretion
Judicial Review
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
35. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
85%
Lower Courts
36. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
Precedent
5th Amendment
F.B.I.
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
37. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Constitutional Law
Patrick Colquhoun
Tribal
38. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?
Assistant District Attorneys
Trials
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Intermediate Courts
39. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?
1383
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Judicial Review
40. What is meant by inferior courts?
Government Attorney
Local level
Lower Courts
U.S. Federal District Courts
41. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?
London Metropolitan Police Act
King Henry II
Precedent
Misdemeanor
42. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Possecomintatus
Arrangement
Government Attorney
43. What major 1829 English law created a centralized urban police force in London?
Nolo Contendre
London Metropolitan Police Act
Patronage and Corruption
830.1
44. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
Mala Prohibita
Special Police Force
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
1977 Dixon Bill
45. In 1829 which English government employee pushed a new law which followed the ideas of Patrick Colquhoun?
London Metropolitan Police Act
Probation Officer
Sir Robert Peel
1977 Dixon Bill
46. Who is referred to as the father of probation?
John Augustus
Due Process
Local level
Pendelton Act
47. Who were the country's first president and vice president?
Loosely Coupled
Adversarial System
George Washington - John Adams
Courts
48. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?
Retribution
Federal Court System
Miranda versus Arizona
Prison Time - Death Sentence
49. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?
Body - Amendments
Continue to another date
State
14
50. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?
Complaint
17
English Common Law
Serpico