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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
6th Amendment
English Common Law
County
2. What is another term for informal probation?
Federal Court System
Constitutional Law
National Crime Information Center
Conditional Sentence
3. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?
Article III of the Constitution
Crime Control Due Process
County
Patronage and Corruption
4. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?
Patronage and Corruption
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Very inactive
Hoover
5. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
Preliminary Hearing
Pendelton Act
Original Jurisdiction
Generalists
6. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?
Parens Patriae
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Patronage and Corruption
Hoover
7. What is meant by inferior courts?
Evaluation
Lower Courts
Deterrence
F.B.I.
8. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?
County
Preliminary Hearing
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
9. When court systems or levels disagree or question if rules are properly applied - what type of court is used?
U.S. Court of Appeals
All volunteers
State
Appeals
10. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?
Tribal
50 - 25000
Trial
Evaluation
11. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?
State/Local Court System
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
17
Information
12. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?
Tribal
Possecomintatus
U.S. Court of Appeals
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
13. In which two locations did the actual shooting war begin between British soldiers and Colonial militia men?
Information
Lexington - Concord
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Pretrial Hearing
14. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Article III of the Constitution
Evaluation
Bench Trial
15. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
Mala Prohibita
Secret Service
Arrangement
Lower Courts
16. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Serpico
5th Amendment
Dual System
17. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?
Patrick Colquhoun
6th Amendment
F.B.I.
Court Room Work Group
18. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
Body - Amendments
U.S. Court of Appeals
Loosely Coupled System
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
19. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
State
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
King John
20. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?
Sheriff
Boston Massacre
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
21. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
Patronage
Article III of the Constitution
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Judiciary Act
22. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
Sheriff
1383
F.B.I
1903
23. After the U.S. Constitution was ratified - what type of court system did the U.S. realize it needed to have?
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
830.1
Federal Court System
Evaluation
24. Negative political influence and corruption impacting 19th century U.S. police agencies was called what?
U.S. Constitution
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
90%
Patronage
25. Who runs the N.C.I.C.?
Adversarial System
F.B.I
State
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
26. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
Habeas Corpus
Nolo Contendre
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Due Process
27. How is a jury panel selected?
State
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Petition
28. Who said - 'The police are the public and the public are the police'?
First Continental Congress
Tribal
Sir Robert Peel
U.S. Marshall's
29. 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
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
1383
Trial
30. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?
Complaint
County
39
Judicial - Executive
31. What is a local law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Chief
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Bill of Rights
Vigilantes
32. What is the main criteria which determines whether a mater goes to a federal or state court?
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
1383
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
33. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?
Conditional Sentence
Mala Prohibita
Information
State
34. What Penal Code section states that the court shall refer to probation for a report?
Boston Massacre
Lexington - Concord
Possecomintatus
1203(b)(1) - Felony
35. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?
Bill of Rights
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Makes deals and not go to trial
Court Administrator
36. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?
Local level
Body - Amendments
Preliminary Hearing
Possecomintatus
37. What two things do military police entities possess?
Makes deals and not go to trial
Judicial System = Institutional System
Original Jurisdiction
Presentence Court Report
38. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?
Retribution
Better
Judicial - Executive
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
39. Who is referred to as the father of probation?
John Augustus
Worse
Future laws not passed yet
Federal Court System
40. What are the two ancient codes that contributed to our current legal system?
Potential for Incarceration
London Metropolitan Police Act
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
41. In what year and state was the country's first dedicated juvenile justice system and court legally established?
Secret Service
Marbury versus Madison
1899 Illinois
Complaint
42. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
Judicial Review
Loosely Coupled
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
90%
43. What are the two main functions of criminal courts?
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44. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
F.B.I
90 Million
Change
U.S. Postal Inspectors
45. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?
Makes deals and not go to trial
Adversarial System
Patronage and Corruption
Sir Robert Peel
46. The power of the U.S. Supreme Court to interpret what the constitution says and means - via case law - is known as what?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
State Supreme Court
Judicial Review
34
47. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Lower Courts
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Hoover
Judicial - Executive
48. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Stamp Act of 1765
49. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
Appeal
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Discretion
50. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Appeal
Boston Massacre
Conditional Sentence