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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What Latin term means - 'father or parent of the country?'
Presentence Court Report
Discretion
Jurisdiction
Parens Patriae
2. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
Incorrigibles
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Sir Robert Peel
3. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
Deterrence
Loosely Coupled
Right away
Body - Amendments
4. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?
Original Jurisdiction
Magna Carta
Government Attorney
8th Amendment
5. Generally speaking - what type of attorney is a prosecuting attorney?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Incapaciation
Government Attorney
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
6. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Bench Trial
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
17 -500
7. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?
Better
1 and 8
King Chamberlain's Court
Stars
8. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
17 -500
Patronage
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
9. Who is in charge of staffing - calender - budget - and other material needs of the court room?
Change
The Family Model
90%
Court Administrator
10. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Miranda versus Arizona
County
11. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?
State/Local Court System
Miranda versus Arizona
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Broken Windows
12. Does a county law enforcement agency head administrator generally require law enforcement experience?
Yes
Continue to another date
Body - Amendments
Worse
13. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
Judicial/Legislative
Local level
John Augustus
Sheriff
14. What federal law enforcement agency delegated peace officer powers to citizens during the era of the wild west?
15. In Orange County - what type of prosecuting attorneys handle the day to day issues in the court room?
Assistant District Attorneys
14
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Body - Amendments
16. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Original Jurisdiction
Very inactive
Petition
17. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
Mala Prohibita
F.B.I.
Preliminary Hearing
Court Administrator
18. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?
17 -500
Life
Tribal
County
19. What Latin term means great paper?
Sheriff or Shireeve
U.S. Constitution
None
Magna Carta
20. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
1 and 8
Continue to another date
Nolo Contendre
Special Police Force
21. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Federal Court System
F.B.I.
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
22. Negative political influence and corruption impacting 19th century U.S. police agencies was called what?
Patronage
U.S. Court of Appeals
Loosely Coupled
14th Amendment
23. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?
14th Amendment
Stare Decisis
Due Process
London Metropolitan Police Act
24. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?
Government Attorney
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
State
Prison Time - Death Sentence
25. Who runs the N.C.I.C.?
Adversarial System
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
F.B.I
Stare Decisis
26. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
King John
Precedent
Judiciary Act
Change
27. What Penal Code section states that the court may refer to probation for a report?
Preliminary Hearing
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Articles of Confederation
28. What concept discusses 'an eye for an eye'?
Retribution
Discretion
Vigilantes
Yes
29. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
Presentence Court Report
Loosely Coupled System
Court Room Work Group
Yes
30. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Appeal
Prison Time - Death Sentence
1903
31. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
Felony
Original Jurisdiction
1977 Dixon Bill
8th Amendment
32. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?
Due Process Phase
Judicial Review
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
85%
33. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?
Pendelton Act
Intermediate Courts
Arrangement
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
34. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Nolo Contendre
English Common Law
Discretion
35. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Statue of Winchester
Discretion
36. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Serpico
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
King Henry II
37. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
Serpico
Change
Community Orientated Policing Era
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
38. What are the five levels of force among agencies?
Adversarial System
Hoover
Stars
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
39. What do bills of attainer relate to?
14
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Deterrence
Punishment without trial
40. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
Adversarial System
1383
1382
Punishment without trial
41. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
U.S. Court of Appeals
Possecomintatus
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
830.1
42. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?
Dual System
Conditional Sentence
Trial
Petition
43. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
County
Tribal
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Sir Robert Peel
44. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?
Better
4th Amendment
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
45. What is the name for a juvenile complaint?
Incapaciation
Petition
Patronage
State
46. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?
Indeterminate Sentencing
Judiciary Act
Makes deals and not go to trial
State/Local Court System
47. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
Deterrence
17 -500
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Petition
48. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
Mala Prohibita
17 -500
Crime Control Due Process
5th Amendment
49. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?
Discretion
Arrangement
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Indeterminate Sentencing
50. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
State
Sir Robert Peel
Preliminary Hearing
Indeterminate Sentencing