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Criminal Justice 101
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
14
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Stars
2. The three federal courts are known as what?
Serpico
Original Jurisdiction
90%
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
3. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
Due Process
All volunteers
Mala Prohibita
Tribal
4. Who were the country's first president and vice president?
George Washington - John Adams
Mala en Se
U.S. Court of Appeals
1977 Dixon Bill
5. What law enforcement agency maintains the largest training academy in the U.S.?
F.B.I.
Incorrigibles
Jurisdiction
5th Amendment
6. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
Vigilantes
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Indeterminate Sentencing
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
7. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
Discretion
Sheriff
Probation Officer
14
8. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Stare Decisis
F.B.I
Potential for Incarceration
9. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?
King Henry II
U.S. Federal District Courts
17 -500
F.B.I.
10. What are the four Cs of the criminal justice system?
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
34
Incorrigibles
Government Attorney
11. What two factors does a probation officer consider when writing the presentence report?
Continue to another date
Stars
Aggravating - Mitigating
State
12. What concept discusses 'an eye for an eye'?
Makes deals and not go to trial
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Retribution
13. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
None
Due Process Phase
Article III of the Constitution
14. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?
Information
Crime Control - Due Process
Formal Probation
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
15. What Penal Code section states that the court shall refer to probation for a report?
6th Amendment
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Future laws not passed yet
16. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Loosely Coupled System
Change
Judicial System = Institutional System
17. What two things do military police entities possess?
Judicial System = Institutional System
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Trial
Statue of Winchester
18. What does an aggravating factor make the report?
Appeal
Life
Formal Probation
Worse
19. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?
Courts
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Indeterminate Sentencing
8th Amendment
20. What does O.R. mean?
Crime Control - Due Process
Judicial System = Institutional System
14
Own Recognizance
21. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
Limited
F.B.I
U.S. Court of Appeals
None
22. Jail time - restitution - contact restrictions - drug testing - searches and seizures - employment verification - and counseling can be terms of what?
Formal Probation
U.S. Federal District Courts
Judicial Review
Bench Trial
23. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
Sworn - Non-sworn
King Henry II
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
State/Local Court System
24. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
90 Million
Local level
Preliminary Hearing
Patronage and Corruption
25. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Discretion
Judicial Review
Courts
26. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
Change
None
17 -500
Attorney General
27. What is the name for a felony complaint?
Information
Constitutional Law
Superior Court
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
28. What is the State Court System's court of last resort?
Magna Carta
State Supreme Court
All volunteers
Community Orientated Policing Era
29. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?
Constitutional Law
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
1383
30. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Statue of Winchester
Life
31. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
Loosely Coupled System
Conditional Sentence
Habeas Corpus
Very inactive
32. What were minors who disobeyed orders of the Kings Chancery Court system called?
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Incorrigibles
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
33. The third federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
U.S. Federal District Courts
Yes
All volunteers
17
34. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
Discretion
Federal Court System
State
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
35. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Lexington - Concord
Habeas Corpus
Nolo Contendre
36. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
U.S. Constitution
Magna Carta
37. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Infraction
Trials
Judicial Review
38. Does a county law enforcement agency head administrator generally require law enforcement experience?
Articles of Confederation
Original Jurisdiction
Yes
14th Amendment
39. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?
Judicial Review
14
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
40. What 1838 Ohio State Supreme Court Case established the concept of Parens Patriae and no need for due process in juvenile matters?
State
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
All volunteers
Mary Ann Crouse
41. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Incorrigibles
Sheriff or Shireeve
Sir Robert Peel
42. What is a county law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Sheriff
Future laws not passed yet
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
14
43. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?
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Limited
Sworn - Non-sworn
Pretrial Hearing
44. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?
Due Process Phase
1383
39
Constitutional Law
45. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
Bill of Rights
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Change
46. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
Punishment without trial
Evaluation
1383
17 -500
47. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Special Police Force
Very inactive
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
48. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
5th Amendment
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Stare Decisis
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
49. The average local law enforcement agency will often employ how many officers and serve what size population?
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
50 - 25000
Original Jurisdiction
Local level
50. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?
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Judicial Review
John Marshall
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason