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Criminal Justice 101
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1. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
State
Stars
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
King Henry II
2. When court systems or levels disagree or question if rules are properly applied - what type of court is used?
Formal Probation
90%
Marbury versus Madison
Appeals
3. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
Vigilantes
Discretion
Preliminary Hearing
Life
4. What do bills of attainer relate to?
U.S. Federal District Courts
Punishment without trial
Community Sensitive Programs
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
5. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
Possecomintatus
Probation Officer
Mala Prohibita
State
6. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?
Precedent
Petition
17 -500
Limited
7. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?
Very inactive
Discretion
90 Million
Future laws not passed yet
8. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Articles of Confederation
4th Amendment
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
9. Which of the five major phases in the criminal justice system since 1965 produced major case law?
Misdemeanor
Lexington - Concord
Due Process Phase
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
10. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?
Serpico
Tribal
Adversarial System
1 and 8
11. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Life
F.B.I.
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
12. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?
830.1
Loosely Coupled System
Miranda versus Arizona
Federal Court System
13. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
Crime Control Due Process
Misdemeanor
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
None
14. What was the name of the article which encouraged law enforcement not just to focus on crime - but the social factors of crime?
Secret Service
First Continental Congress
Broken Windows
Felony
15. What was the original staffing of the U.S. Supreme Court?
Own Recognizance
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Continue to another date
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
16. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
County
Discretion
1903
Bill of Rights
17. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?
State
Assistant District Attorneys
Stamp Act of 1765
8th Amendment
18. Which 1760s British tax law placed tax quotes on all paper based products imported into the colonies?
Stamp Act of 1765
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Articles of Confederation
Right away
19. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?
Sworn - Non-sworn
Superior Court
State
Attorney General
20. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?
Loosely Coupled System
Serpico
Evidence
Crime Control Due Process
21. Negative political influence and corruption impacting 19th century U.S. police agencies was called what?
Patronage
Probation Officer
George Washington - John Adams
County
22. Under English Common Law what was the general cut off age in distinguishing between those who could charged with felonies?
14
Statue of Winchester
Sheriff
Article III of the Constitution
23. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?
Hoover
King John
Original Jurisdiction
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
24. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
Stamp Act of 1765
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
17
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
25. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Trial
Miranda versus Arizona
Adversarial System
26. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
5th Amendment
Potential for Incarceration
Change
1 and 8
27. What was name of the era which was distinguished by the Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program?
Mala en Se
Community Orientated Policing Era
39
830.1
28. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?
County
Article III of the Constitution
King Henry II
Makes deals and not go to trial
29. In which two locations did the actual shooting war begin between British soldiers and Colonial militia men?
Hoover
Lexington - Concord
National Crime Information Center
F.B.I.
30. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
Change
Marbury versus Madison
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
All volunteers
31. What current California legal code did the Law of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses contribute to?
Petition
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
The Penal Code
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
32. The third federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
U.S. Federal District Courts
Sworn - Non-sworn
Crime Control - Due Process
The Penal Code
33. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?
Life
Jurisdiction
17 -500
Arrangement
34. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?
Complaint
Patronage
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
35. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
George Washington - John Adams
Bill of Rights
State/Local Court System
36. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
17 -500
Dual System
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Court Administrator
37. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?
Discretion
All volunteers
Patronage
Constitutional Law
38. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?
Own Recognizance
Limited
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Evidence
39. What is the State Court System's court of last resort?
Makes deals and not go to trial
State Supreme Court
1903
Patronage and Corruption
40. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?
Very inactive
Sir Robert Peel
90%
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
41. What major 1829 English law created a centralized urban police force in London?
London Metropolitan Police Act
Vigilantes
Life
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
42. What is another term for informal probation?
Mary Ann Crouse
17 -500
Conditional Sentence
4th Amendment
43. What does a judge order the probation department to write in order to find more about an individual before sentencing?
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Presentence Court Report
State
Ah Peen
44. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
Aggravating - Mitigating
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Limited
14th Amendment
45. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?
Original Jurisdiction
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Loosely Coupled System
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
46. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
90 Million
1977 Dixon Bill
First Continental Congress
Judicial - Executive
47. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?
85%
Aggravating - Mitigating
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Vigilantes
48. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Sworn - Non-sworn
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
49. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
90%
Loosely Coupled
Judicial/Legislative
Discretion
50. What Penal Code section states that the court may refer to probation for a report?
Patronage and Corruption
Federal Court System
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
John Augustus