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Criminal Justice 101
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1. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
17
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Trials
Punishment without trial
2. What is the State Court System's court of last resort?
1899 Illinois
Due Process
State Supreme Court
Tribal
3. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Intermediate Courts
1383
Indeterminate Sentencing
4. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?
Original Jurisdiction
Constitutional Law
F.B.I.
Sheriff or Shireeve
5. Jail time - restitution - contact restrictions - drug testing - searches and seizures - employment verification - and counseling can be terms of what?
Adversarial System
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Formal Probation
The Penal Code
6. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Attorney General
Judicial Review
Community Sensitive Programs
7. What does N.C.I.C. stand for?
Evaluation
Chief
Stare Decisis
National Crime Information Center
8. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Government Attorney
Original Jurisdiction
Discretion
9. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?
State
Parens Patriae
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
John Augustus
10. What concepts attempts to protect society by isolating others?
6th Amendment
Incapaciation
John Marshall
Makes deals and not go to trial
11. Who were the country's first president and vice president?
George Washington - John Adams
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
All volunteers
Nolo Contendre
12. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?
F.B.I.
County
90 Million
All volunteers
13. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
Stamp Act of 1765
1903
Makes deals and not go to trial
17 -500
14. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?
Precedent
Hoover
The Family Model
Loosely Coupled System
15. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
$1.7 million
1903
6th Amendment
16. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?
State/Local Court System
Trials
Court Room Work Group
Evaluation
17. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
Bill of Rights
Original Jurisdiction
King John
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
18. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
F.B.I.
Crime Control Due Process
19. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?
Discretion
Due Process Phase
Parens Patriae
Trial
20. What Latin term means great paper?
County
Magna Carta
Statue of Winchester
Boston Massacre
21. Which of the five major phases in the criminal justice system since 1965 produced major case law?
Due Process Phase
F.B.I.
Limited
The Penal Code
22. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
Discretion
Petition
Community Orientated Policing Era
Judicial/Legislative
23. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
1383
Tribal
All volunteers
Stars
24. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
830.1
John Augustus
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
25. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?
State
Court Room Work Group
State Supreme Court
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
26. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Habeas Corpus
Sir Robert Peel
Boston Massacre
27. In 1789 which London magistrate stressed the need for a 'centralized' law enforcement agency?
Federal Court System
Arrangement
Patrick Colquhoun
Precedent
28. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
Precedent
Courts
Possecomintatus
Discretion
29. What Latin term means - 'father or parent of the country?'
Patrick Colquhoun
Parens Patriae
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
90%
30. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?
Discretion
U.S. Marshall's
Special Police Force
Courts
31. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?
Appeal
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Continue to another date
John Augustus
32. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
London Metropolitan Police Act
Local level
Incorrigibles
Precedent
33. What was name of the era which was distinguished by the Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program?
Original Jurisdiction
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Community Orientated Policing Era
Crime Control - Due Process
34. What major 1829 English law created a centralized urban police force in London?
Original Jurisdiction
London Metropolitan Police Act
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Assistant District Attorneys
35. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
Pendelton Act
Possecomintatus
Mary Ann Crouse
Preliminary Hearing
36. How long is a federal judge's term of office for?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Appeal
Court Room Work Group
Life
37. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
State
Assistant District Attorneys
85%
Due Process Phase
38. What 1883 federal law stressed the need for a civil service system based upon merit?
Adversarial System
5th Amendment
Pendelton Act
Infraction
39. What major 1803 U.S. Supreme Court case established that the court would begin to interpret what the constitution was all about?
Judicial System = Institutional System
Magna Carta
Potential for Incarceration
Marbury versus Madison
40. Who is in charge of staffing - calender - budget - and other material needs of the court room?
Adversarial System
Court Administrator
6th Amendment
Original Jurisdiction
41. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
Presentence Court Report
5th Amendment
Conditional Sentence
F.B.I.
42. What is a county law enforcement agency's head administrator?
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Broken Windows
Tribal
Sheriff
43. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?
1899 Illinois
Crime Control Due Process
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Judiciary Act
44. In what year and state was the country's first dedicated juvenile justice system and court legally established?
Due Process Phase
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
1899 Illinois
14th Amendment
45. What is the average budget of a local law enforcement agency?
Right away
$1.7 million
All volunteers
Better
46. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?
1903
6th Amendment
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Adversarial System
47. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
State
John Marshall
90 Million
John Augustus
48. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?
Sworn - Non-sworn
Original Jurisdiction
14
Government Attorney
49. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?
Hoover
Evaluation
Magna Carta
State
50. What is the name for a juvenile complaint?
Trial
Petition
Discretion
Ah Peen