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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
The Penal Code
Deterrence
1383
Continue to another date
2. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1930?
Loosely Coupled System
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Adversarial System
1203(b)(1) - Felony
3. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?
14
Boston Massacre
Sworn - Non-sworn
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
4. What is the Latin term that means evil or bad in itself?
Judiciary Act
Attorney General
Mala en Se
Very inactive
5. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
Ah Peen
Articles of Confederation
90 Million
Marbury versus Madison
6. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
Presentence Court Report
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Appeal
Misdemeanor
7. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?
Stare Decisis
Appeals
90%
Formal Probation
8. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?
Court Administrator
John Augustus
State/Local Court System
Appeals
9. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Hoover
Articles of Confederation
Possecomintatus
10. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
Trials
Potential for Incarceration
Incapaciation
Sir Robert Peel
11. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?
Change
Intermediate Courts
Original Jurisdiction
English Common Law
12. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?
14th Amendment
Mala Prohibita
U.S. Constitution
Own Recognizance
13. What is the name for a felony complaint?
Information
39
Judiciary Act
Boston Massacre
14. What English Common Law court system could arguably be seen as the world's first dedicated juvenile court?
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15. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Judicial/Legislative
Mary Ann Crouse
Judicial System = Institutional System
16. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Judicial Review
Mary Ann Crouse
State
17. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
F.B.I.
Nolo Contendre
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Change
18. What Latin term means great paper?
17 -500
Magna Carta
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
1903
19. Which of the five major phases in the criminal justice system since 1965 produced major case law?
85%
Due Process Phase
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Sworn - Non-sworn
20. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
34
Dual System
85%
Chief
21. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Life
Superior Court
Judicial System = Institutional System
22. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
Parens Patriae
Bill of Rights
State Supreme Court
90%
23. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?
Government Attorney
Discretion
Potential for Incarceration
1 and 8
24. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?
Very inactive
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
U.S. Marshall's
25. What do bills of attainer relate to?
830.1
King Chamberlain's Court
Punishment without trial
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
26. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?
830.1
Judicial/Legislative
John Marshall
5th Amendment
27. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
1977 Dixon Bill
Potential for Incarceration
Jurisdiction
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
28. What is the name for a juvenile complaint?
Due Process Phase
1382
Miranda versus Arizona
Petition
29. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
8th Amendment
Serpico
1899 Illinois
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
30. What does a mitigating factor make the report?
1977 Dixon Bill
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Better
None
31. What do the majority of cases going into the U.S. District Court involve?
State
English Common Law
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
32. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?
Article III of the Constitution
6th Amendment
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Life
33. What are the five levels of force among agencies?
State/Local Court System
Pretrial Hearing
F.B.I.
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
34. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
Future laws not passed yet
State
17 -500
Mala Prohibita
35. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
Probation Officer
Evidence
Lower Courts
Stars
36. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?
Intermediate Courts
Stare Decisis
Appeal
Crime Control Due Process
37. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?
The Penal Code
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Nolo Contendre
38. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?
State Supreme Court
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
None
39. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
John Marshall
Mala en Se
Preliminary Hearing
Incapaciation
40. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?
Crime Control - Due Process
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Retribution
State
41. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?
First Continental Congress
39
Evidence
Deterrence
42. What two things do military police entities possess?
Deterrence
Judicial System = Institutional System
Complaint
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
43. What federal law enforcement agency delegated peace officer powers to citizens during the era of the wild west?
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44. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
Crime Control Due Process
U.S. Court of Appeals
Statue of Winchester
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
45. What does O.R. mean?
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Judiciary Act
Dual System
Own Recognizance
46. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
Precedent
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Local level
85%
47. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?
Bill of Rights
Petition
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Punishment without trial
48. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?
Felony
14
Local level
Patronage and Corruption
49. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?
King Chamberlain's Court
Miranda versus Arizona
State
Adversarial System
50. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?
Boston Massacre
Constitutional Law
Patrick Colquhoun
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
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