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Criminal Justice 101
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?
Community Orientated Policing Era
Incorrigibles
Adversarial System
1383
2. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Evidence
Adversarial System
3. What are the two main functions of criminal courts?
4. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
U.S. Marshall's
U.S. Court of Appeals
Discretion
Possecomintatus
5. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?
Jurisdiction
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Trial
6th Amendment
6. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?
English Common Law
Makes deals and not go to trial
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
None
7. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
1382
Very inactive
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
State
8. What was the original staffing of the U.S. Supreme Court?
Possecomintatus
Preliminary Hearing
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Local level
9. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?
Judicial/Legislative
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
90%
10. What concept attempts to alter future behaviors through threats of punishment and consequences?
Court Room Work Group
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Deterrence
Petition
11. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?
34
John Marshall
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
17
12. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?
Local level
Stare Decisis
Tribal
90%
13. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
Right away
Felony
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
14. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?
Appeal
Constitutional Law
U.S. Federal District Courts
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
15. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
Local level
90%
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Adversarial System
16. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
17
Community Sensitive Programs
1383
Bench Trial
17. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Judicial - Executive
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Crime Control Due Process
Judicial Review
18. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?
Crime Control Due Process
1903
Attorney General
Court Administrator
19. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
5th Amendment
Judiciary Act
Loosely Coupled
Serpico
20. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?
1899 Illinois
Judicial System = Institutional System
Conditional Sentence
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
21. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?
Dual System
1383
1 and 8
Patronage and Corruption
22. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?
Parens Patriae
90 Million
8th Amendment
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
23. What 1838 Ohio State Supreme Court Case established the concept of Parens Patriae and no need for due process in juvenile matters?
Dual System
Mary Ann Crouse
1382
Trials
24. What does a mitigating factor make the report?
Discretion
Presentence Court Report
F.B.I
Better
25. What is the average budget of a local law enforcement agency?
Court Room Work Group
Very inactive
39
$1.7 million
26. What was the name of the article which encouraged law enforcement not just to focus on crime - but the social factors of crime?
17 -500
Stare Decisis
Federal Court System
Broken Windows
27. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?
U.S. Court of Appeals
Original Jurisdiction
F.B.I.
Very inactive
28. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?
National Crime Information Center
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Federal Court System
Crime Control Due Process
29. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?
17 -500
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
John Marshall
30. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Loosely Coupled System
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Crime Control - Due Process
31. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
Makes deals and not go to trial
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Broken Windows
Generalists
32. Generally speaking - what type of attorney is a prosecuting attorney?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Vigilantes
Government Attorney
33. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Government Attorney
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
34. What does an aggravating factor make the report?
Sworn - Non-sworn
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Worse
35. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?
Original Jurisdiction
Mary Ann Crouse
Better
Limited
36. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?
Miranda versus Arizona
Body - Amendments
Preliminary Hearing
14
37. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
State
Stars
Discretion
Body - Amendments
38. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
Makes deals and not go to trial
County
Judiciary Act
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
39. What major 1803 U.S. Supreme Court case established that the court would begin to interpret what the constitution was all about?
1977 Dixon Bill
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Judicial/Legislative
Marbury versus Madison
40. When court systems or levels disagree or question if rules are properly applied - what type of court is used?
Conditional Sentence
Appeals
1899 Illinois
Broken Windows
41. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Attorney General
Evaluation
Lower Courts
42. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
50 - 25000
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
First Continental Congress
Mala Prohibita
43. What is the State Court System's court of last resort?
Adversarial System
Due Process
Judiciary Act
State Supreme Court
44. What concepts attempts to protect society by isolating others?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Petition
Incapaciation
County
45. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
Loosely Coupled
State
Limited
Probation Officer
46. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Preliminary Hearing
Incapaciation
47. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?
Makes deals and not go to trial
Due Process
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
First Continental Congress
48. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
U.S. Federal District Courts
Limited
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
49. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
1977 Dixon Bill
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Mary Ann Crouse
Mala Prohibita
50. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
Government Attorney
Sir Robert Peel
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Prison Time - Death Sentence