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Criminal Justice 101
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1. Where does a felony case begin?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Due Process Phase
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Patronage
2. What two factors does a probation officer consider when writing the presentence report?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Aggravating - Mitigating
Bill of Rights
John Marshall
3. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?
830.1
90%
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
4. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1930?
Crime Control - Due Process
Adversarial System
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
State
5. What does a mitigating factor make the report?
Judicial System = Institutional System
State
Better
The Penal Code
6. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Mala en Se
Secret Service
Adversarial System
7. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?
Courts
Trials
State/Local Court System
Bench Trial
8. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Nolo Contendre
Generalists
90 Million
9. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
Preliminary Hearing
17
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Loosely Coupled
10. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
Judicial Review
Change
English Common Law
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
11. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?
Conditional Sentence
Deterrence
Presentence Court Report
8th Amendment
12. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?
Continue to another date
Evaluation
Hoover
6th Amendment
13. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?
English Common Law
Parens Patriae
39
U.S. Postal Inspectors
14. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?
Superior Court
Worse
Bench Trial
Evaluation
15. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?
6th Amendment
Indeterminate Sentencing
Judicial - Executive
14
16. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
14
Potential for Incarceration
Misdemeanor
None
17. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
Assistant District Attorneys
50 - 25000
Generalists
Hoover
18. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?
4th Amendment
Due Process Phase
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Lexington - Concord
19. What are the four Cs of the criminal justice system?
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Hoover
U.S. Marshall's
Incapaciation
20. What is a local law enforcement agency's head administrator?
6th Amendment
Hoover
Chief
Complaint
21. What are the five levels of force among agencies?
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Superior Court
Broken Windows
Life
22. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?
1 and 8
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Mala Prohibita
23. What does O.R. mean?
Own Recognizance
County
Stars
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
24. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?
14th Amendment
14
Original Jurisdiction
Stare Decisis
25. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
5th Amendment
F.B.I
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Nolo Contendre
26. When pleading guilty at a felony arrangement - what does the judge generally do for sentencing?
Original Jurisdiction
Continue to another date
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Judicial/Legislative
27. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Lexington - Concord
Probation Officer
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
28. How many states use the death penalty?
English Common Law
Yes
34
Mala Prohibita
29. Other then UCRS and NIBRS - what entities compile information about crime in the country?
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
County
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Secret Service
30. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
Incapaciation
Mala Prohibita
Statue of Winchester
Mala en Se
31. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Judicial - Executive
Stare Decisis
Yes
Court Room Work Group
32. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
Stars
Discretion
Evaluation
1383
33. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?
Court Room Work Group
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Bill of Rights
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
34. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
Loosely Coupled
Federal Court System
Punishment without trial
Preliminary Hearing
35. During the Revolutionary War what major document helped to guide the colonies in fighting their war against Britain?
Judicial/Legislative
Articles of Confederation
Attorney General
Local level
36. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?
Statue of Winchester
State
Judicial/Legislative
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
37. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
Tribal
Adversarial System
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
County
38. Does a county law enforcement agency head administrator generally require law enforcement experience?
King John
Special Police Force
Yes
85%
39. What major 1829 English law created a centralized urban police force in London?
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
1 and 8
London Metropolitan Police Act
34
40. What are the oldest law enforcement agencies in the country?
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41. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?
Intermediate Courts
$1.7 million
8th Amendment
Yes
42. The Federal Court system was created through what?
Intermediate Courts
County
Judiciary Act
All volunteers
43. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?
Boston Massacre
State Supreme Court
Court Administrator
State
44. What concept discusses 'an eye for an eye'?
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Retribution
Preliminary Hearing
Magna Carta
45. What federal law enforcement agency delegated peace officer powers to citizens during the era of the wild west?
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46. Which 1760s British tax law placed tax quotes on all paper based products imported into the colonies?
Preliminary Hearing
Precedent
Boston Massacre
Stamp Act of 1765
47. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
Potential for Incarceration
Patronage
Loosely Coupled System
Makes deals and not go to trial
48. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?
Petition
Arrangement
Body - Amendments
Pretrial Hearing
49. Who were the country's first president and vice president?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Felony
George Washington - John Adams
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
50. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
Nolo Contendre
Better
Local level
U.S. Postal Inspectors