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Criminal Justice 101
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1. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
5th Amendment
King Henry II
State/Local Court System
2. What concept attempts to alter future behaviors through threats of punishment and consequences?
Community Sensitive Programs
Deterrence
London Metropolitan Police Act
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
3. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
Bench Trial
Retribution
Punishment without trial
Preliminary Hearing
4. Generally speaking - what type of attorney is a prosecuting attorney?
Government Attorney
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
17 -500
Parens Patriae
5. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
County
6th Amendment
17 -500
U.S. Marshall's
6. Is the Federal or State court system older?
Constitutional Law
State
Miranda versus Arizona
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
7. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
Habeas Corpus
Tribal
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
8. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
Indeterminate Sentencing
Information
Stare Decisis
Adversarial System
9. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
1382
Assistant District Attorneys
Own Recognizance
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
10. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
Adversarial System
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Stars
11. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?
Loosely Coupled
14
State/Local Court System
4th Amendment
12. What 1883 federal law stressed the need for a civil service system based upon merit?
4th Amendment
Worse
Pendelton Act
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
13. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
Petition
Nolo Contendre
George Washington - John Adams
Constitutional Law
14. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
1383
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Stare Decisis
Appeal
15. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
Sir Robert Peel
5th Amendment
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Trial
16. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Chief
F.B.I.
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
17. What does an aggravating factor make the report?
Worse
50 - 25000
Stare Decisis
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
18. What were minors who disobeyed orders of the Kings Chancery Court system called?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Incorrigibles
Body - Amendments
Stare Decisis
19. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?
Vigilantes
State
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
English Common Law
20. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?
County
8th Amendment
Possecomintatus
Own Recognizance
21. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
Precedent
F.B.I.
Boston Massacre
Judiciary Act
22. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Makes deals and not go to trial
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
39
23. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?
State/Local Court System
Ah Peen
U.S. Court of Appeals
Felony
24. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?
17 -500
County
1 and 8
1382
25. What is a local law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Chief
King John
Sir Robert Peel
Federal Court System
26. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?
Article III of the Constitution
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Intermediate Courts
Jurisdiction
27. Which 1760s British tax law placed tax quotes on all paper based products imported into the colonies?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Ah Peen
Stamp Act of 1765
Article III of the Constitution
28. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
Government Attorney
Stare Decisis
Change
Judicial Review
29. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
4th Amendment
Judicial System = Institutional System
Serpico
Bench Trial
30. What is the Latin term that means evil or bad in itself?
Bill of Rights
Mala en Se
All volunteers
Dual System
31. What is another term for informal probation?
Sir Robert Peel
Conditional Sentence
Ah Peen
Formal Probation
32. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
Incapaciation
Serpico
Constitutional Law
All volunteers
33. What are the two ancient codes that contributed to our current legal system?
John Augustus
39
Crime Control - Due Process
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
34. What was the original staffing of the U.S. Supreme Court?
Possecomintatus
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Community Orientated Policing Era
The Penal Code
35. What legal model first attempted the concept of rehabilitation and resocialization?
King John
Community Orientated Policing Era
The Family Model
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
36. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
John Marshall
Vigilantes
Boston Massacre
U.S. Federal District Courts
37. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
Misdemeanor
830.1
85%
39
38. What are the two types of defense attorneys?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Habeas Corpus
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Bench Trial
39. Under English Common Law what was the general cut off age in distinguishing between those who could charged with felonies?
State Supreme Court
Hoover
Felony
14
40. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?
George Washington - John Adams
Constitutional Law
State
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
41. Other then UCRS and NIBRS - what entities compile information about crime in the country?
County
Assistant District Attorneys
Bench Trial
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
42. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?
Courts
Aggravating - Mitigating
Due Process
5th Amendment
43. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Petition
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Appeal
44. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
Discretion
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Misdemeanor
Incorrigibles
45. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?
14
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
17 -500
Pretrial Hearing
46. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?
Formal Probation
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Sir Robert Peel
F.B.I
47. What 1838 Ohio State Supreme Court Case established the concept of Parens Patriae and no need for due process in juvenile matters?
Mary Ann Crouse
Own Recognizance
Better
Punishment without trial
48. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?
Boston Massacre
14
King Henry II
Intermediate Courts
49. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?
Original Jurisdiction
1382
Due Process
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
50. What Penal Code section states that the court shall refer to probation for a report?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Judiciary Act
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Sworn - Non-sworn