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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?
Constitutional Law
Stamp Act of 1765
Sheriff or Shireeve
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
2. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?
Presentence Court Report
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Indeterminate Sentencing
U.S. Postal Inspectors
3. What Latin term means great paper?
6th Amendment
Magna Carta
Ah Peen
U.S. Constitution
4. How many states use the death penalty?
34
5th Amendment
Secret Service
Judiciary Act
5. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?
39
Appeal
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Worse
6. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
85%
F.B.I.
U.S. Constitution
7. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?
Retribution
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
County
F.B.I.
8. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?
Lexington - Concord
Lower Courts
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
English Common Law
9. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
Preliminary Hearing
17 -500
830.1
Pendelton Act
10. What was the original staffing of the U.S. Supreme Court?
Felony
Judicial Review
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Right away
11. When pleading guilty at a felony arrangement - what does the judge generally do for sentencing?
5th Amendment
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Continue to another date
12. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
U.S. Constitution
Tribal
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Evaluation
13. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
1 and 8
Potential for Incarceration
1382
14. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?
U.S. Postal Inspectors
State/Local Court System
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
John Augustus
15. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
Deterrence
Probation Officer
34
Adversarial System
16. What are the five levels of force among agencies?
Article III of the Constitution
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Prison Time - Death Sentence
King Henry II
17. Other then UCRS and NIBRS - what entities compile information about crime in the country?
Evidence
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Formal Probation
Change
18. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
English Common Law
Limited
F.B.I.
Nolo Contendre
19. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
34
King Chamberlain's Court
Change
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
20. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
Lexington - Concord
All volunteers
Very inactive
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
21. Is the Federal or State court system older?
Sheriff or Shireeve
Stars
State
Presentence Court Report
22. Who is in charge of staffing - calender - budget - and other material needs of the court room?
Court Administrator
Future laws not passed yet
Petition
Continue to another date
23. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?
County
8th Amendment
Patrick Colquhoun
Body - Amendments
24. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?
Crime Control Due Process
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Conditional Sentence
Pendelton Act
25. The Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program motivated police to try what new procedures?
Court Room Work Group
Community Sensitive Programs
Special Police Force
830.1
26. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?
Evaluation
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
State
27. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
Court Room Work Group
Tribal
Adversarial System
$1.7 million
28. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?
Marbury versus Madison
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
1 and 8
17 -500
29. What is another term for informal probation?
Court Administrator
Conditional Sentence
8th Amendment
Mala Prohibita
30. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?
1899 Illinois
14
Superior Court
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
31. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Crime Control Due Process
1977 Dixon Bill
Pretrial Hearing
32. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?
F.B.I
Original Jurisdiction
U.S. Court of Appeals
Magna Carta
33. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?
Misdemeanor
1382
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Crime Control - Due Process
34. What Latin term means - 'father or parent of the country?'
Tribal
Parens Patriae
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
50 - 25000
35. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
85%
50 - 25000
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Miranda versus Arizona
36. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?
Federal Court System
Boston Massacre
Patronage
Miranda versus Arizona
37. How long is a federal judge's term of office for?
Future laws not passed yet
Misdemeanor
U.S. Constitution
Life
38. 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?
First Continental Congress
Federal Court System
Possecomintatus
Stare Decisis
39. Generally speaking - what type of attorney is a prosecuting attorney?
Judicial/Legislative
Government Attorney
Appeals
Tribal
40. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
Arrangement
Bill of Rights
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
F.B.I.
41. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?
Sworn - Non-sworn
Attorney General
Future laws not passed yet
14th Amendment
42. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
Tribal
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Article III of the Constitution
U.S. Court of Appeals
43. In Orange County - what type of prosecuting attorneys handle the day to day issues in the court room?
Assistant District Attorneys
Community Sensitive Programs
Court Administrator
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
44. What does ex-post facto law relate to?
Sheriff
Conditional Sentence
1903
Future laws not passed yet
45. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Boston Massacre
John Marshall
Special Police Force
46. What Penal Code section states that the court shall refer to probation for a report?
14
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Indeterminate Sentencing
47. What are the two main functions of criminal courts?
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48. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?
4th Amendment
John Augustus
Nolo Contendre
Generalists
49. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
King Chamberlain's Court
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Stars
State
50. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1930?
State
8th Amendment
Punishment without trial
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System