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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?
Aggravating - Mitigating
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
5th Amendment
Miranda versus Arizona
2. Other then UCRS and NIBRS - what entities compile information about crime in the country?
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Presentence Court Report
Article III of the Constitution
3. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?
5th Amendment
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Court Administrator
6th Amendment
4. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?
Article III of the Constitution
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
John Augustus
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
5. Which 1760s British tax law placed tax quotes on all paper based products imported into the colonies?
17
Stamp Act of 1765
Continue to another date
Presentence Court Report
6. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Worse
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
County
7. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
All volunteers
None
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
1977 Dixon Bill
8. What does N.C.I.C. stand for?
Judiciary Act
National Crime Information Center
Own Recognizance
Article III of the Constitution
9. What are the five levels of force among agencies?
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Loosely Coupled
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
14
10. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?
Adversarial System
1903
The Family Model
King Chamberlain's Court
11. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
King John
London Metropolitan Police Act
National Crime Information Center
12. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
Original Jurisdiction
Discretion
Judicial Review
Change
13. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
Superior Court
Deterrence
F.B.I.
Original Jurisdiction
14. The Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program motivated police to try what new procedures?
Stare Decisis
The Penal Code
17 -500
Community Sensitive Programs
15. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?
Courts
John Augustus
14th Amendment
All volunteers
16. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Incorrigibles
Very inactive
The Penal Code
17. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?
Right away
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Appeal
Community Sensitive Programs
18. What is a county law enforcement agency's head administrator?
State/Local Court System
Incapaciation
Sheriff
Stare Decisis
19. Is the Federal or State court system older?
1382
State
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Tribal
20. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?
State
The Penal Code
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Judiciary Act
21. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?
Jurisdiction
Yes
Constitutional Law
Worse
22. What does an aggravating factor make the report?
F.B.I
Attorney General
Lexington - Concord
Worse
23. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
8th Amendment
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
34
Discretion
24. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
Limited
Dual System
Courts
Stars
25. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?
John Marshall
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Evidence
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
26. The power of the U.S. Supreme Court to interpret what the constitution says and means - via case law - is known as what?
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Tribal
Magna Carta
Judicial Review
27. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?
Court Administrator
Body - Amendments
Federal Court System
Evaluation
28. Where does a felony case begin?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
U.S. Federal District Courts
14
85%
29. What 1865 federal law enforcement agency was initially responsible for excessive counterfeiting following the civil war?
14
Secret Service
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Pendelton Act
30. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?
Bill of Rights
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Due Process
U.S. Court of Appeals
31. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?
State
Court Administrator
Article III of the Constitution
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
32. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
5th Amendment
National Crime Information Center
Superior Court
Mala Prohibita
33. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
F.B.I.
Conditional Sentence
Habeas Corpus
State
34. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
1977 Dixon Bill
State Supreme Court
Patronage and Corruption
35. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
Preliminary Hearing
Change
F.B.I.
Judicial Review
36. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
85%
English Common Law
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
37. In Orange County - what type of prosecuting attorneys handle the day to day issues in the court room?
Assistant District Attorneys
Crime Control - Due Process
Discretion
14
38. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Crime Control Due Process
Very inactive
50 - 25000
39. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?
Hoover
Tribal
Crime Control Due Process
Makes deals and not go to trial
40. What does ex-post facto law relate to?
Future laws not passed yet
Attorney General
14th Amendment
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
41. What 1770 shooting incident heightened tensions between Boston colonists and newly arrived British soldiers?
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
90 Million
Boston Massacre
County
42. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
Stare Decisis
Stamp Act of 1765
17 -500
Marbury versus Madison
43. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Very inactive
44. If you plea guilty at a misdemeanor arraignment - when can a judge sentence you?
Right away
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
State
45. How is a jury panel selected?
Adversarial System
Original Jurisdiction
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
1899 Illinois
46. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?
Mala en Se
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Tribal
Stars
47. What does a preliminary hearing determine?
First Continental Congress
Hoover
Mary Ann Crouse
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
48. The B.I.A. and the F.B.I. often provide support and assistance to what level of law enforcement agencies?
Complaint
Judicial/Legislative
Tribal
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
49. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
Vigilantes
Federal Court System
Judicial Review
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
50. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?
Ah Peen
8th Amendment
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Evidence