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Criminal Justice 101
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1. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
Government Attorney
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
2. Is the Federal or State court system older?
1382
17 -500
Broken Windows
State
3. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?
Stare Decisis
Judicial/Legislative
All volunteers
Conditional Sentence
4. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
Mala Prohibita
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Vigilantes
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
5. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?
90 Million
1977 Dixon Bill
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Due Process
6. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?
Original Jurisdiction
Preliminary Hearing
First Continental Congress
1903
7. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Judiciary Act
Stars
34
8. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?
$1.7 million
Indeterminate Sentencing
Arrangement
Judicial System = Institutional System
9. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
Preliminary Hearing
The Family Model
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Sir Robert Peel
10. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
F.B.I.
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Stamp Act of 1765
17 -500
11. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?
U.S. Postal Inspectors
14th Amendment
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
U.S. Marshall's
12. What were minors who disobeyed orders of the Kings Chancery Court system called?
Miranda versus Arizona
F.B.I
Incorrigibles
Own Recognizance
13. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?
Aggravating - Mitigating
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Felony
State
14. Which 1760s British tax law placed tax quotes on all paper based products imported into the colonies?
Serpico
First Continental Congress
George Washington - John Adams
Stamp Act of 1765
15. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
Community Sensitive Programs
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
830.1
Loosely Coupled System
16. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?
Community Sensitive Programs
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
The Penal Code
Evidence
17. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?
Probation Officer
Miranda versus Arizona
14
Crime Control - Due Process
18. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
17
Sir Robert Peel
1977 Dixon Bill
Superior Court
19. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?
Stamp Act of 1765
14
1903
State
20. How long is a federal judge's term of office for?
U.S. Constitution
Tribal
Life
Patrick Colquhoun
21. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?
Body - Amendments
The Family Model
85%
Presentence Court Report
22. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?
Crime Control - Due Process
Nolo Contendre
$1.7 million
Serpico
23. What two things do military police entities possess?
17 -500
Judicial System = Institutional System
Lexington - Concord
14
24. What concept discusses 'an eye for an eye'?
Habeas Corpus
U.S. Marshall's
Tribal
Retribution
25. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
Discretion
90%
Incapaciation
Local level
26. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?
Bench Trial
County
Crime Control - Due Process
Original Jurisdiction
27. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?
Federal Court System
Future laws not passed yet
Constitutional Law
Articles of Confederation
28. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?
Formal Probation
Superior Court
Dual System
Judiciary Act
29. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?
Miranda versus Arizona
Stars
Judicial/Legislative
17
30. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Arrangement
90 Million
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
31. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?
50 - 25000
Preliminary Hearing
Court Room Work Group
17
32. What does O.R. mean?
Felony
90%
Assistant District Attorneys
Own Recognizance
33. When pleading guilty at a felony arrangement - what does the judge generally do for sentencing?
Continue to another date
Potential for Incarceration
Tribal
Own Recognizance
34. Under English Common Law what was the general cut off age in distinguishing between those who could charged with felonies?
All volunteers
14
Loosely Coupled System
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
35. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
Original Jurisdiction
Preliminary Hearing
Stars
Judiciary Act
36. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Judicial - Executive
Courts
Own Recognizance
Possecomintatus
37. What west coast supreme court case in 1876 further established the philosophy of Parens Patriae and no due process for juveniles?
Nolo Contendre
Ah Peen
Loosely Coupled
Potential for Incarceration
38. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
Presentence Court Report
Loosely Coupled
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Adversarial System
39. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1987 as a supplement to UCRS?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
King Chamberlain's Court
40. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?
County
English Common Law
Pretrial Hearing
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
41. The third federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
U.S. Federal District Courts
Petition
Federal Court System
39
42. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?
Bench Trial
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
1 and 8
34
43. The average local law enforcement agency will often employ how many officers and serve what size population?
50 - 25000
Community Orientated Policing Era
1 and 8
Deterrence
44. What legal model first attempted the concept of rehabilitation and resocialization?
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
F.B.I
1383
The Family Model
45. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
County
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Own Recognizance
46. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
Conditional Sentence
Federal Court System
Special Police Force
Boston Massacre
47. What is another term for informal probation?
Future laws not passed yet
Conditional Sentence
Nolo Contendre
Evaluation
48. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?
John Marshall
Change
Punishment without trial
Evaluation
49. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?
Evaluation
Body - Amendments
State
Life
50. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?
Marbury versus Madison
F.B.I
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Possecomintatus