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Criminal Justice 101
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
Misdemeanor
Indeterminate Sentencing
Pendelton Act
Lexington - Concord
2. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
Mary Ann Crouse
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Appeals
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
3. Other then UCRS and NIBRS - what entities compile information about crime in the country?
Jurisdiction
First Continental Congress
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
4. Jail time - restitution - contact restrictions - drug testing - searches and seizures - employment verification - and counseling can be terms of what?
Patrick Colquhoun
Formal Probation
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Yes
5. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?
King John
Continue to another date
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
6. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?
Bill of Rights
Jurisdiction
National Crime Information Center
6th Amendment
7. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
830.1
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
1382
8. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Probation Officer
50 - 25000
Precedent
9. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?
Life
Crime Control Due Process
Right away
Habeas Corpus
10. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Judicial - Executive
Crime Control - Due Process
Special Police Force
Punishment without trial
11. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
First Continental Congress
Original Jurisdiction
1382
F.B.I.
12. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?
County
Misdemeanor
Miranda versus Arizona
Articles of Confederation
13. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?
Very inactive
Article III of the Constitution
17
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
14. Who were the country's first president and vice president?
George Washington - John Adams
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Magna Carta
Broken Windows
15. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
Assistant District Attorneys
Stare Decisis
85%
George Washington - John Adams
16. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
F.B.I.
8th Amendment
17 -500
State
17. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
5th Amendment
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Federal Court System
Loosely Coupled
18. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?
Due Process Phase
U.S. Federal District Courts
1977 Dixon Bill
Makes deals and not go to trial
19. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?
Adversarial System
Probation Officer
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
20. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
All volunteers
1977 Dixon Bill
State
8th Amendment
21. 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
1977 Dixon Bill
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Arrangement
22. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
John Augustus
Tribal
Bill of Rights
Arrangement
23. What Penal Code section states that the court may refer to probation for a report?
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Jurisdiction
Stars
24. The B.I.A. and the F.B.I. often provide support and assistance to what level of law enforcement agencies?
34
Tribal
Body - Amendments
Nolo Contendre
25. Who runs the N.C.I.C.?
Discretion
85%
F.B.I
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
26. The power of the U.S. Supreme Court to interpret what the constitution says and means - via case law - is known as what?
Judicial Review
Appeals
Judicial System = Institutional System
Judiciary Act
27. What are the four Cs of the criminal justice system?
Makes deals and not go to trial
Discretion
Intermediate Courts
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
28. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?
Evaluation
Judicial/Legislative
John Marshall
Broken Windows
29. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?
Loosely Coupled System
Constitutional Law
John Marshall
4th Amendment
30. Who is in charge of staffing - calender - budget - and other material needs of the court room?
Patronage
Court Administrator
Marbury versus Madison
34
31. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
U.S. Court of Appeals
Miranda versus Arizona
County
U.S. Postal Inspectors
32. What west coast supreme court case in 1876 further established the philosophy of Parens Patriae and no due process for juveniles?
Crime Control - Due Process
Ah Peen
Sir Robert Peel
Aggravating - Mitigating
33. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?
Courts
Court Administrator
Hoover
4th Amendment
34. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
Boston Massacre
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Generalists
35. What is another term for informal probation?
Future laws not passed yet
Conditional Sentence
Makes deals and not go to trial
Adversarial System
36. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?
King John
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Patrick Colquhoun
Stare Decisis
37. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?
Lower Courts
State
Judicial - Executive
Judicial Review
38. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Petition
Sworn - Non-sworn
Broken Windows
39. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Articles of Confederation
Deterrence
Adversarial System
40. 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
Patronage and Corruption
Marbury versus Madison
Stars
41. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?
Community Sensitive Programs
Incorrigibles
Hoover
English Common Law
42. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Evaluation
Change
Discretion
43. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Patrick Colquhoun
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Complaint
44. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?
Hoover
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
90%
85%
45. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
State
Infraction
None
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
46. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?
Incorrigibles
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
English Common Law
17
47. What was name of the era which was distinguished by the Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program?
George Washington - John Adams
14
Secret Service
Community Orientated Policing Era
48. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Appeal
Complaint
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
49. What law enforcement agency maintains the largest training academy in the U.S.?
Superior Court
Deterrence
F.B.I.
Due Process Phase
50. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?
Crime Control - Due Process
Complaint
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
8th Amendment