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Criminal Justice 101
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1. In 1829 which English government employee pushed a new law which followed the ideas of Patrick Colquhoun?
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Articles of Confederation
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Sir Robert Peel
2. What is a county law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Probation Officer
Sheriff
Potential for Incarceration
3. What two factors does a probation officer consider when writing the presentence report?
Original Jurisdiction
Formal Probation
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Aggravating - Mitigating
4. What concept discusses 'an eye for an eye'?
Retribution
Bench Trial
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Superior Court
5. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?
Arrangement
Stare Decisis
Article III of the Constitution
Nolo Contendre
6. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?
F.B.I.
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Discretion
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
7. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
All volunteers
Makes deals and not go to trial
1382
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
8. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?
John Marshall
Patronage
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Discretion
9. What is another term for informal probation?
Lower Courts
Stamp Act of 1765
Conditional Sentence
Boston Massacre
10. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?
Assistant District Attorneys
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
State
Local level
11. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?
Trial
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Nolo Contendre
12. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?
Body - Amendments
King Henry II
Crime Control - Due Process
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13. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Habeas Corpus
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
14. What was the original staffing of the U.S. Supreme Court?
Trial
First Continental Congress
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
50 - 25000
15. What legal model first attempted the concept of rehabilitation and resocialization?
The Family Model
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
1203(b)(1) - Felony
16. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Secret Service
Punishment without trial
Local level
17. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
Local level
17
Adversarial System
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
18. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?
Judicial/Legislative
1977 Dixon Bill
Adversarial System
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
19. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?
1903
English Common Law
Jurisdiction
1383
20. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
Mala Prohibita
Ah Peen
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Possecomintatus
21. When court systems or levels disagree or question if rules are properly applied - what type of court is used?
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Arrangement
Appeals
85%
22. What two things do military police entities possess?
Judicial Review
National Crime Information Center
Judicial System = Institutional System
Court Room Work Group
23. What is meant by inferior courts?
Constitutional Law
State/Local Court System
Life
Lower Courts
24. In 1789 which London magistrate stressed the need for a 'centralized' law enforcement agency?
14
90%
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Patrick Colquhoun
25. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Appeal
Limited
26. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?
Due Process Phase
Hoover
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
830.1
27. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
Loosely Coupled System
Patrick Colquhoun
Incorrigibles
Mala en Se
28. What was the name of the article which encouraged law enforcement not just to focus on crime - but the social factors of crime?
State/Local Court System
Broken Windows
17 -500
Parens Patriae
29. Who were the country's first president and vice president?
Ah Peen
George Washington - John Adams
Lexington - Concord
Trials
30. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
Change
Patrick Colquhoun
State Supreme Court
6th Amendment
31. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Broken Windows
U.S. Court of Appeals
Ah Peen
32. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
Mala en Se
Limited
F.B.I.
King John
33. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
90%
1 and 8
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34. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
Loosely Coupled
Due Process Phase
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
35. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
King John
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
6th Amendment
36. What Latin term means - 'father or parent of the country?'
39
17 -500
Parens Patriae
Articles of Confederation
37. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Limited
Judicial - Executive
U.S. Federal District Courts
Nolo Contendre
38. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?
Due Process
90 Million
Felony
The Penal Code
39. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
Conditional Sentence
Very inactive
Misdemeanor
Statue of Winchester
40. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?
English Common Law
Punishment without trial
85%
Conditional Sentence
41. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?
Due Process Phase
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Jurisdiction
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
42. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
None
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Chief
Discretion
43. What law enforcement agency maintains the largest training academy in the U.S.?
F.B.I.
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Complaint
17 -500
44. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
Hoover
830.1
Generalists
Precedent
45. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
State
Worse
Special Police Force
King Henry II
46. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?
U.S. Federal District Courts
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Miranda versus Arizona
6th Amendment
47. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
Indeterminate Sentencing
14th Amendment
Discretion
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
48. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?
17 -500
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Felony
First Continental Congress
49. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
The Family Model
F.B.I.
Trials
Punishment without trial
50. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Secret Service
1977 Dixon Bill
Preliminary Hearing