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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What Penal Code section states that the court shall refer to probation for a report?
Court Room Work Group
Patronage
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Original Jurisdiction
2. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?
Better
All volunteers
State Supreme Court
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
3. What 1838 Ohio State Supreme Court Case established the concept of Parens Patriae and no need for due process in juvenile matters?
Petition
Mary Ann Crouse
Superior Court
Nolo Contendre
4. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
Broken Windows
1382
Intermediate Courts
34
5. The third federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
U.S. Federal District Courts
John Augustus
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
6. What are the two main functions of criminal courts?
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7. How many states use the death penalty?
Hoover
34
Superior Court
Aggravating - Mitigating
8. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Courts
1203(b)(1) - Felony
34
9. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
Very inactive
Superior Court
17 -500
Stare Decisis
10. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
1977 Dixon Bill
U.S. Constitution
F.B.I.
11. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?
Bench Trial
Courts
The Penal Code
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
12. What are the four Cs of the criminal justice system?
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
National Crime Information Center
Misdemeanor
Life
13. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?
Secret Service
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Dual System
Trial
14. The average local law enforcement agency will often employ how many officers and serve what size population?
50 - 25000
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
U.S. Postal Inspectors
15. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
King Chamberlain's Court
State/Local Court System
Judicial System = Institutional System
16. What 1883 federal law stressed the need for a civil service system based upon merit?
Body - Amendments
Pendelton Act
Potential for Incarceration
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
17. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
Habeas Corpus
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Incorrigibles
Possecomintatus
18. What does an aggravating factor make the report?
Sheriff or Shireeve
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Evidence
Worse
19. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
Potential for Incarceration
85%
Judicial - Executive
Trial
20. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?
Life
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Felony
21. What major 1829 English law created a centralized urban police force in London?
John Augustus
85%
London Metropolitan Police Act
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
22. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Jurisdiction
Indeterminate Sentencing
Appeal
23. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Original Jurisdiction
Stare Decisis
Judicial System = Institutional System
24. Where does a felony case begin?
6th Amendment
Preliminary Hearing
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
25. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?
Boston Massacre
4th Amendment
State
Crime Control - Due Process
26. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
Federal Court System
F.B.I.
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Secret Service
27. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
Mala Prohibita
Change
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
28. When pleading guilty at a felony arrangement - what does the judge generally do for sentencing?
Change
U.S. Court of Appeals
Continue to another date
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
29. What concept attempts to alter future behaviors through threats of punishment and consequences?
Deterrence
Due Process
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
17 -500
30. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
None
Petition
Crime Control - Due Process
Lexington - Concord
31. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?
Judicial System = Institutional System
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Magna Carta
32. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
Discretion
17 -500
Evidence
Patronage
33. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Adversarial System
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Constitutional Law
34. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
Discretion
Generalists
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
U.S. Postal Inspectors
35. What is the Latin term that means evil or bad in itself?
Indeterminate Sentencing
Mala en Se
F.B.I
Limited
36. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?
County
Better
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Patrick Colquhoun
37. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
Loosely Coupled System
State
King John
Probation Officer
38. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
$1.7 million
Stars
Judiciary Act
39. What was the original staffing of the U.S. Supreme Court?
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Lexington - Concord
Federal Court System
Own Recognizance
40. How is a jury panel selected?
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
1383
Own Recognizance
Original Jurisdiction
41. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?
Serpico
Crime Control - Due Process
F.B.I.
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
42. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?
Pretrial Hearing
Original Jurisdiction
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
43. How long is a federal judge's term of office for?
Deterrence
1383
Life
State Supreme Court
44. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
Worse
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Loosely Coupled System
Trials
45. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
Discretion
Federal Court System
Bench Trial
Loosely Coupled
46. What 1770 shooting incident heightened tensions between Boston colonists and newly arrived British soldiers?
Punishment without trial
Boston Massacre
Judicial Review
Courts
47. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?
Jurisdiction
14th Amendment
Sir Robert Peel
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
48. What 1865 federal law enforcement agency was initially responsible for excessive counterfeiting following the civil war?
Secret Service
National Crime Information Center
Marbury versus Madison
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
49. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Information
Limited
Patrick Colquhoun
50. What do bills of attainer relate to?
Punishment without trial
Courts
Discretion
Legislative - Executive - Judicial