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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?
Preliminary Hearing
Appeal
County
Judicial - Executive
2. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?
The Penal Code
Change
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Pretrial Hearing
3. What 1865 federal law enforcement agency was initially responsible for excessive counterfeiting following the civil war?
Secret Service
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Yes
4. What was the original staffing of the U.S. Supreme Court?
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Nolo Contendre
Secret Service
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
5. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?
Dual System
Jurisdiction
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Federal Court System
6. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
Limited
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Presentence Court Report
Life
7. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?
Ah Peen
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Discretion
8. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
Miranda versus Arizona
Limited
Ah Peen
1382
9. What was name of the era which was distinguished by the Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program?
All volunteers
Broken Windows
Community Orientated Policing Era
Very inactive
10. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
Vigilantes
John Augustus
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Adversarial System
11. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
Serpico
Complaint
State/Local Court System
1203(b)(1) - Felony
12. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
First Continental Congress
U.S. Federal District Courts
Statue of Winchester
17 -500
13. What current California legal code did the Law of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses contribute to?
Stare Decisis
The Penal Code
Judicial/Legislative
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
14. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?
King Henry II
5th Amendment
Preliminary Hearing
Pendelton Act
15. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
Parens Patriae
Nolo Contendre
Patronage and Corruption
85%
16. Under English Common Law what was the general cut off age in distinguishing between those who could charged with felonies?
Secret Service
14
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Stare Decisis
17. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
Change
5th Amendment
Misdemeanor
The Family Model
18. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
Magna Carta
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
17 -500
Courts
19. When pleading guilty at a felony arrangement - what does the judge generally do for sentencing?
Article III of the Constitution
Continue to another date
Very inactive
Presentence Court Report
20. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?
Felony
Bill of Rights
Dual System
14
21. The three federal courts are known as what?
Preliminary Hearing
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Stare Decisis
Evidence
22. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?
F.B.I
Lower Courts
Judicial Review
County
23. The Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program motivated police to try what new procedures?
Federal Court System
Very inactive
Community Sensitive Programs
14
24. What English Common Law court system could arguably be seen as the world's first dedicated juvenile court?
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25. Which 1760s British tax law placed tax quotes on all paper based products imported into the colonies?
Stamp Act of 1765
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Deterrence
King Henry II
26. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
Discretion
Misdemeanor
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Body - Amendments
27. What Penal Code section states that the court shall refer to probation for a report?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Adversarial System
1203(b)(1) - Felony
U.S. Marshall's
28. The power of the U.S. Supreme Court to interpret what the constitution says and means - via case law - is known as what?
Judicial Review
$1.7 million
Presentence Court Report
Mala en Se
29. Who is referred to as the father of probation?
Trials
John Augustus
Courts
Superior Court
30. What law enforcement agency maintains the largest training academy in the U.S.?
U.S. Federal District Courts
Broken Windows
F.B.I.
Sir Robert Peel
31. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?
Body - Amendments
Stamp Act of 1765
6th Amendment
Trial
32. What two things do military police entities possess?
Judicial System = Institutional System
Bench Trial
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
John Marshall
33. What does an aggravating factor make the report?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Due Process Phase
Worse
Vigilantes
34. What major 1829 English law created a centralized urban police force in London?
8th Amendment
London Metropolitan Police Act
Sir Robert Peel
Sheriff
35. Generally speaking - what type of attorney is a prosecuting attorney?
Yes
Government Attorney
U.S. Federal District Courts
Judicial - Executive
36. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?
Assistant District Attorneys
F.B.I
Court Room Work Group
Parens Patriae
37. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?
Boston Massacre
Arrangement
All volunteers
Miranda versus Arizona
38. What is the point of a second preliminary hearing?
F.B.I
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Jurisdiction
Preliminary Hearing
39. Negative political influence and corruption impacting 19th century U.S. police agencies was called what?
Court Room Work Group
Limited
Patronage
14th Amendment
40. Who said - 'The police are the public and the public are the police'?
Dual System
Sir Robert Peel
Loosely Coupled
Infraction
41. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?
14th Amendment
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Very inactive
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
42. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?
Special Police Force
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Incorrigibles
Indeterminate Sentencing
43. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
14
None
1899 Illinois
4th Amendment
44. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?
17 -500
Government Attorney
Stare Decisis
Ah Peen
45. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Loosely Coupled System
King Henry II
Possecomintatus
46. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
Very inactive
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
U.S. Constitution
Boston Massacre
47. 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
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Mala en Se
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
48. What is a county law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Probation Officer
Sheriff
Due Process Phase
King Chamberlain's Court
49. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?
830.1
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Incapaciation
50. 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
Generalists
Patronage
5th Amendment