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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
State Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Nolo Contendre
Misdemeanor
2. What is a local law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Chief
Body - Amendments
All volunteers
3. What two factors does a probation officer consider when writing the presentence report?
Trial
Nolo Contendre
Constitutional Law
Aggravating - Mitigating
4. The third federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
U.S. Federal District Courts
U.S. Court of Appeals
Parens Patriae
Mala Prohibita
5. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
6th Amendment
14th Amendment
State/Local Court System
Judicial - Executive
6. Which of the five major phases in the criminal justice system since 1965 produced major case law?
Retribution
14
Due Process Phase
State Supreme Court
7. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
Right away
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Discretion
Evaluation
8. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?
Judicial System = Institutional System
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
London Metropolitan Police Act
9. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Deterrence
17 -500
Trial
10. In what year and state was the country's first dedicated juvenile justice system and court legally established?
1899 Illinois
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Secret Service
Presentence Court Report
11. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
90 Million
Formal Probation
Judicial Review
Special Police Force
12. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
39
Sir Robert Peel
13. What law enforcement agency maintains the largest training academy in the U.S.?
Chief
U.S. Marshall's
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
F.B.I.
14. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
1383
Articles of Confederation
17
15. What was the name of the group of people who went to Philadelphia in 1774 in order to discuss their unhappiness with Britain and its taxes?
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
George Washington - John Adams
Right away
First Continental Congress
16. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
The Family Model
The Penal Code
1382
State/Local Court System
17. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?
1382
4th Amendment
Petition
Tribal
18. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?
Conditional Sentence
Crime Control - Due Process
Life
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
19. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Evaluation
Infraction
London Metropolitan Police Act
20. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?
Hoover
Bench Trial
Discretion
Stare Decisis
21. Where does a felony case begin?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Judiciary Act
34
Possecomintatus
22. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
Court Administrator
17 -500
14
Broken Windows
23. What type of bodies do our current laws come from?
Trials
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
90%
Judicial/Legislative
24. What does ex-post facto law relate to?
Future laws not passed yet
Crime Control - Due Process
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Body - Amendments
25. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
Stars
Nolo Contendre
Deterrence
1383
26. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?
Broken Windows
Miranda versus Arizona
Loosely Coupled System
State
27. What legal model first attempted the concept of rehabilitation and resocialization?
State Supreme Court
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
The Family Model
Broken Windows
28. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
Trials
Life
Bill of Rights
Deterrence
29. What 1770 shooting incident heightened tensions between Boston colonists and newly arrived British soldiers?
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Presentence Court Report
Boston Massacre
Judicial Review
30. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
London Metropolitan Police Act
State
Original Jurisdiction
31. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
Trials
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Stamp Act of 1765
Punishment without trial
32. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Judiciary Act
Courts
33. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Indeterminate Sentencing
Original Jurisdiction
8th Amendment
34. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
Limited
Article III of the Constitution
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Tribal
35. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?
King John
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
State/Local Court System
36. Under English Common Law what was the general cut off age in distinguishing between those who could charged with felonies?
Adversarial System
14
1 and 8
Limited
37. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
17 -500
Loosely Coupled
The Penal Code
F.B.I.
38. What are the five levels of force among agencies?
Ah Peen
Sworn - Non-sworn
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
39. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?
Pendelton Act
County
Crime Control - Due Process
Magna Carta
40. Who were the country's first president and vice president?
Sheriff
90%
George Washington - John Adams
Presentence Court Report
41. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
Indeterminate Sentencing
Attorney General
Preliminary Hearing
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
42. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?
Loosely Coupled
Trial
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Appeal
43. What is the State Court System's court of last resort?
1382
The Penal Code
State Supreme Court
Petition
44. The three federal courts are known as what?
Worse
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Preliminary Hearing
Yes
45. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
Stare Decisis
Vigilantes
Continue to another date
Indeterminate Sentencing
46. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
Bench Trial
1383
Judicial/Legislative
Original Jurisdiction
47. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?
Conditional Sentence
Miranda versus Arizona
Arrangement
Community Orientated Policing Era
48. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?
Arrangement
17 -500
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
F.B.I
49. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?
County
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Retribution
Assistant District Attorneys
50. How many states use the death penalty?
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Misdemeanor
34
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections