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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
Stars
Community Sensitive Programs
Lower Courts
Judiciary Act
2. The Federal Court system was created through what?
Judiciary Act
Retribution
Stamp Act of 1765
Statue of Winchester
3. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Article III of the Constitution
4. Which 1760s British tax law placed tax quotes on all paper based products imported into the colonies?
Stamp Act of 1765
Judiciary Act
Sheriff or Shireeve
Adversarial System
5. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?
Sheriff
Trial
Sir Robert Peel
None
6. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Right away
7. What is the name for a felony complaint?
King John
Marbury versus Madison
Information
King Henry II
8. What type of bodies do our current laws come from?
Loosely Coupled System
Judicial/Legislative
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Adversarial System
9. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?
Assistant District Attorneys
State Supreme Court
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
John Marshall
10. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Attorney General
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Habeas Corpus
11. What is the Latin term that means evil or bad in itself?
Hoover
Magna Carta
Judiciary Act
Mala en Se
12. What do the majority of cases going into the U.S. District Court involve?
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Court Room Work Group
17
Judiciary Act
13. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Lower Courts
830.1
The Penal Code
14. In 1829 which English government employee pushed a new law which followed the ideas of Patrick Colquhoun?
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Community Sensitive Programs
Sir Robert Peel
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
15. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?
Superior Court
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Tribal
None
16. What major 1829 English law created a centralized urban police force in London?
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
London Metropolitan Police Act
Article III of the Constitution
17. How long is a federal judge's term of office for?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Life
Judicial System = Institutional System
Constitutional Law
18. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Very inactive
Lower Courts
Indeterminate Sentencing
19. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?
Own Recognizance
34
State
Sheriff or Shireeve
20. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
Bill of Rights
1903
Judicial System = Institutional System
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
21. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
Crime Control - Due Process
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
17 -500
Yes
22. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?
Sheriff or Shireeve
Court Room Work Group
6th Amendment
National Crime Information Center
23. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?
Discretion
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Body - Amendments
24. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Patronage and Corruption
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
8th Amendment
25. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?
Hoover
Jurisdiction
Arrangement
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
26. What does N.C.I.C. stand for?
Arrangement
National Crime Information Center
Deterrence
State
27. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1930?
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UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
U.S. Federal District Courts
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
28. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
Pendelton Act
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Generalists
Change
29. What was name of the era which was distinguished by the Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program?
Government Attorney
Change
Community Orientated Policing Era
Future laws not passed yet
30. Who said - 'The police are the public and the public are the police'?
Sir Robert Peel
Loosely Coupled
Ah Peen
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
31. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?
Future laws not passed yet
$1.7 million
Secret Service
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
32. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Attorney General
1383
17 -500
33. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?
Constitutional Law
U.S. Court of Appeals
5th Amendment
Miranda versus Arizona
34. Who is in charge of staffing - calender - budget - and other material needs of the court room?
Punishment without trial
Court Administrator
Appeals
Discretion
35. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Stare Decisis
Change
36. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
Adversarial System
Original Jurisdiction
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
John Marshall
37. What 1770 shooting incident heightened tensions between Boston colonists and newly arrived British soldiers?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Ah Peen
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Boston Massacre
38. What Latin term means great paper?
Magna Carta
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
King John
14
39. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
Special Police Force
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Federal Court System
Retribution
40. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
Probation Officer
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Mala Prohibita
Judiciary Act
41. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?
Constitutional Law
Courts
4th Amendment
Tribal
42. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
Sheriff or Shireeve
State
Tribal
State
43. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
Assistant District Attorneys
5th Amendment
Adversarial System
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
44. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
All volunteers
Serpico
Tribal
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
45. During the Revolutionary War what major document helped to guide the colonies in fighting their war against Britain?
Adversarial System
Tribal
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Articles of Confederation
46. What was the name of the article which encouraged law enforcement not just to focus on crime - but the social factors of crime?
Intermediate Courts
Arrangement
Makes deals and not go to trial
Broken Windows
47. What do bills of attainer relate to?
Trials
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Government Attorney
Punishment without trial
48. In Orange County - what type of prosecuting attorneys handle the day to day issues in the court room?
Assistant District Attorneys
Discretion
John Augustus
Judicial Review
49. Local California courts which handle misdemeanors - minor civil matters - and traffic violations are called what?
Discretion
85%
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Marbury versus Madison
50. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?
Adversarial System
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Marbury versus Madison
6th Amendment