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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What is a county law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Lower Courts
50 - 25000
The Penal Code
Sheriff
2. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?
Local level
English Common Law
King John
Arrangement
3. Jail time - restitution - contact restrictions - drug testing - searches and seizures - employment verification - and counseling can be terms of what?
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Formal Probation
Better
17
4. Does a county law enforcement agency head administrator generally require law enforcement experience?
Evidence
Yes
Judicial - Executive
Preliminary Hearing
5. What are the two ancient codes that contributed to our current legal system?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
1899 Illinois
Original Jurisdiction
6. What is a local law enforcement agency's head administrator?
King John
Discretion
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Chief
7. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
Dual System
Discretion
State
John Marshall
8. What are the five levels of force among agencies?
Retribution
Dual System
Mala Prohibita
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
9. The B.I.A. and the F.B.I. often provide support and assistance to what level of law enforcement agencies?
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
34
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Tribal
10. What 1883 federal law stressed the need for a civil service system based upon merit?
Due Process
U.S. Federal District Courts
Original Jurisdiction
Pendelton Act
11. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
Stars
Mary Ann Crouse
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
12. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
English Common Law
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
13. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Parens Patriae
Vigilantes
County
14. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Special Police Force
Precedent
Patronage
15. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
State
Marbury versus Madison
Worse
U.S. Federal District Courts
16. What is the Latin term that means evil or bad in itself?
Mala en Se
U.S. Marshall's
Mala Prohibita
Appeal
17. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
All volunteers
State
John Marshall
85%
18. What major 1829 English law created a centralized urban police force in London?
Presentence Court Report
London Metropolitan Police Act
Community Sensitive Programs
John Marshall
19. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?
8th Amendment
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
14th Amendment
Statue of Winchester
20. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?
Due Process
Habeas Corpus
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
1383
21. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?
Discretion
1383
Very inactive
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
22. What was the original staffing of the U.S. Supreme Court?
Sir Robert Peel
Possecomintatus
1903
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
23. What concept attempts to alter future behaviors through threats of punishment and consequences?
Deterrence
Magna Carta
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Judicial System = Institutional System
24. What was the name of the group of people who went to Philadelphia in 1774 in order to discuss their unhappiness with Britain and its taxes?
4th Amendment
Attorney General
First Continental Congress
Judicial Review
25. What is the State Court System's court of last resort?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Conditional Sentence
State Supreme Court
Vigilantes
26. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
County
Body - Amendments
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
27. Who said - 'The police are the public and the public are the police'?
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Sir Robert Peel
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
1903
28. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?
Stars
Lower Courts
John Marshall
The Penal Code
29. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
830.1
Punishment without trial
State
The Penal Code
30. What Latin term means - 'father or parent of the country?'
King John
George Washington - John Adams
Parens Patriae
90%
31. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Judicial System = Institutional System
Presentence Court Report
Adversarial System
32. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?
Patronage and Corruption
Indeterminate Sentencing
17
Complaint
33. What does an aggravating factor make the report?
Discretion
Generalists
Worse
Change
34. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?
Mary Ann Crouse
Change
Intermediate Courts
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
35. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?
Precedent
34
Serpico
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
36. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
Life
King John
Better
Indeterminate Sentencing
37. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
Very inactive
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Stamp Act of 1765
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
38. During the Revolutionary War what major document helped to guide the colonies in fighting their war against Britain?
Constitutional Law
Judicial - Executive
Loosely Coupled
Articles of Confederation
39. What Penal Code section states that the court shall refer to probation for a report?
Very inactive
Evidence
Right away
1203(b)(1) - Felony
40. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Generalists
Makes deals and not go to trial
Better
41. What is another term for informal probation?
F.B.I
Stars
Conditional Sentence
U.S. Constitution
42. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
Discretion
Retribution
State
Change
43. What was the name of the article which encouraged law enforcement not just to focus on crime - but the social factors of crime?
Original Jurisdiction
Due Process
Broken Windows
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
44. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?
State
Jurisdiction
Infraction
Stamp Act of 1765
45. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?
17 -500
Habeas Corpus
State/Local Court System
Stare Decisis
46. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?
National Crime Information Center
Judicial Review
Future laws not passed yet
8th Amendment
47. Under English Common Law what was the general cut off age in distinguishing between those who could charged with felonies?
50 - 25000
King Henry II
Government Attorney
14
48. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?
George Washington - John Adams
State
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Government Attorney
49. Is the Federal or State court system older?
John Augustus
State/Local Court System
State
Aggravating - Mitigating
50. What legal model first attempted the concept of rehabilitation and resocialization?
The Family Model
17 -500
Tribal
Vigilantes
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