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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Due Process
Adversarial System
Superior Court
2. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?
Court Room Work Group
F.B.I.
Life
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
3. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?
King John
Sir Robert Peel
Appeals
Arrangement
4. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?
Crime Control Due Process
The Penal Code
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Due Process Phase
5. What two things do military police entities possess?
Makes deals and not go to trial
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
John Marshall
Judicial System = Institutional System
6. What does O.R. mean?
F.B.I.
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Stars
Own Recognizance
7. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
Precedent
90 Million
Loosely Coupled
Original Jurisdiction
8. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?
Preliminary Hearing
Incapaciation
John Marshall
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
9. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
90 Million
Appeal
Tribal
Due Process Phase
10. What is an offense that consists of illegal conduct but no jail time?
Patrick Colquhoun
Infraction
Chief
Sir Robert Peel
11. What 1865 federal law enforcement agency was initially responsible for excessive counterfeiting following the civil war?
Evidence
Secret Service
Stare Decisis
1 and 8
12. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Appeal
Judiciary Act
None
13. What are the two main functions of criminal courts?
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14. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?
U.S. Federal District Courts
90%
50 - 25000
Incapaciation
15. What type of bodies do our current laws come from?
Judicial/Legislative
John Marshall
1 and 8
Sir Robert Peel
16. What concept discusses 'an eye for an eye'?
Retribution
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Incapaciation
Serpico
17. What is another term for informal probation?
Presentence Court Report
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Conditional Sentence
Lexington - Concord
18. Who said - 'The police are the public and the public are the police'?
English Common Law
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Sir Robert Peel
19. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?
Crime Control - Due Process
Magna Carta
Very inactive
King John
20. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?
None
Sworn - Non-sworn
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Evidence
21. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?
Appeals
State
Trial
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
22. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
F.B.I.
Worse
State
85%
23. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
U.S. Marshall's
Stars
Sir Robert Peel
24. The Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program motivated police to try what new procedures?
National Crime Information Center
Community Sensitive Programs
Discretion
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
25. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?
Preliminary Hearing
Presentence Court Report
Miranda versus Arizona
Makes deals and not go to trial
26. What does ex-post facto law relate to?
F.B.I.
Local level
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Future laws not passed yet
27. The power of the U.S. Supreme Court to interpret what the constitution says and means - via case law - is known as what?
Stare Decisis
Judicial Review
Lexington - Concord
Special Police Force
28. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?
Sheriff or Shireeve
8th Amendment
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
U.S. Marshall's
29. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Change
Lexington - Concord
30. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?
London Metropolitan Police Act
Sir Robert Peel
Ah Peen
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
31. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
Appeals
Misdemeanor
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Community Sensitive Programs
32. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1987 as a supplement to UCRS?
Judicial - Executive
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Boston Massacre
33. What west coast supreme court case in 1876 further established the philosophy of Parens Patriae and no due process for juveniles?
Ah Peen
Body - Amendments
90%
Mala en Se
34. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?
50 - 25000
1903
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
14
35. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
U.S. Constitution
Makes deals and not go to trial
Appeal
36. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?
6th Amendment
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Probation Officer
Parens Patriae
37. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
Mary Ann Crouse
Bill of Rights
Broken Windows
King John
38. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?
Miranda versus Arizona
1 and 8
34
Sheriff or Shireeve
39. What was name of the era which was distinguished by the Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program?
830.1
Community Orientated Policing Era
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Misdemeanor
40. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?
17
State
Mala en Se
50 - 25000
41. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
Lexington - Concord
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Due Process Phase
85%
42. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
Adversarial System
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Constitutional Law
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
43. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?
Sheriff
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Vigilantes
Miranda versus Arizona
44. 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
Special Police Force
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
County
45. Does a county law enforcement agency head administrator generally require law enforcement experience?
Yes
Sheriff
Mala en Se
Stars
46. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?
Body - Amendments
Assistant District Attorneys
Attorney General
Yes
47. Who is referred to as the father of probation?
$1.7 million
Deterrence
John Augustus
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
48. What two factors does a probation officer consider when writing the presentence report?
Patronage and Corruption
Due Process
Aggravating - Mitigating
F.B.I.
49. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?
State
8th Amendment
Community Orientated Policing Era
Community Sensitive Programs
50. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
Formal Probation
Preliminary Hearing
90%
Life
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