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Criminal Justice 101
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
U.S. Court of Appeals
Conditional Sentence
Discretion
2. How many states use the death penalty?
Article III of the Constitution
34
1977 Dixon Bill
Judicial - Executive
3. What do the majority of cases going into the U.S. District Court involve?
Own Recognizance
Felony
6th Amendment
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
4. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?
Stars
State/Local Court System
John Augustus
Possecomintatus
5. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?
King John
Vigilantes
1899 Illinois
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
6. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
U.S. Constitution
$1.7 million
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
39
7. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
Infraction
Federal Court System
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
8. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?
Preliminary Hearing
King John
90%
Constitutional Law
9. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?
Incorrigibles
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Tribal
Misdemeanor
10. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
State
Formal Probation
Information
Mala Prohibita
11. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
830.1
Marbury versus Madison
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Boston Massacre
12. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
6th Amendment
1 and 8
Worse
Special Police Force
13. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
Local level
State Supreme Court
Special Police Force
Evidence
14. What 1865 federal law enforcement agency was initially responsible for excessive counterfeiting following the civil war?
Secret Service
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
John Marshall
Deterrence
15. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
Original Jurisdiction
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Intermediate Courts
1383
16. What was the name of the article which encouraged law enforcement not just to focus on crime - but the social factors of crime?
George Washington - John Adams
Judiciary Act
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Broken Windows
17. What concept attempts to alter future behaviors through threats of punishment and consequences?
Deterrence
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Magna Carta
5th Amendment
18. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
Adversarial System
Community Sensitive Programs
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Body - Amendments
19. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?
6th Amendment
Magna Carta
County
Ah Peen
20. What is the Latin term that means evil or bad in itself?
Miranda versus Arizona
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Mala en Se
17
21. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Discretion
First Continental Congress
Jurisdiction
22. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?
Superior Court
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Lexington - Concord
Sir Robert Peel
23. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?
14
King John
Bill of Rights
Adversarial System
24. What west coast supreme court case in 1876 further established the philosophy of Parens Patriae and no due process for juveniles?
Vigilantes
Ah Peen
Attorney General
Sheriff or Shireeve
25. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
Intermediate Courts
Pendelton Act
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
The Penal Code
26. What do bills of attainer relate to?
39
Judiciary Act
Punishment without trial
Stare Decisis
27. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?
Preliminary Hearing
The Family Model
London Metropolitan Police Act
Article III of the Constitution
28. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?
14th Amendment
Incapaciation
Patronage
Yes
29. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
Limited
Aggravating - Mitigating
Petition
Punishment without trial
30. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?
Very inactive
Misdemeanor
Bill of Rights
Trials
31. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
1382
F.B.I.
Stars
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
32. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Crime Control - Due Process
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Potential for Incarceration
33. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?
Sheriff or Shireeve
Nolo Contendre
King John
Appeal
34. How long is a federal judge's term of office for?
Life
Discretion
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Retribution
35. What is a county law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Sheriff
14th Amendment
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
1203(b)(1) - Felony
36. Generally speaking - what type of attorney is a prosecuting attorney?
F.B.I
Due Process Phase
14th Amendment
Government Attorney
37. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?
Evidence
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Very inactive
Continue to another date
38. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?
Felony
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Tribal
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
39. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
Tribal
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Preliminary Hearing
Sheriff or Shireeve
40. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?
Preliminary Hearing
Adversarial System
State
Trial
41. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?
Crime Control - Due Process
Community Sensitive Programs
1 and 8
Trial
42. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?
Lexington - Concord
First Continental Congress
Pretrial Hearing
Adversarial System
43. Negative political influence and corruption impacting 19th century U.S. police agencies was called what?
Complaint
Mala Prohibita
Mary Ann Crouse
Patronage
44. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1987 as a supplement to UCRS?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
U.S. Marshall's
Constitutional Law
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
45. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
90 Million
Tribal
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Nolo Contendre
46. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
Generalists
Indeterminate Sentencing
Misdemeanor
State
47. Who said - 'The police are the public and the public are the police'?
Sir Robert Peel
Government Attorney
Formal Probation
1 and 8
48. What does ex-post facto law relate to?
State
Future laws not passed yet
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
5th Amendment
49. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
Change
King Henry II
George Washington - John Adams
Loosely Coupled
50. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?
Nolo Contendre
Precedent
Makes deals and not go to trial
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department