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Criminal Justice 101
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What does ex-post facto law relate to?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Life
Adversarial System
Future laws not passed yet
2. What do the majority of cases going into the U.S. District Court involve?
Continue to another date
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Preliminary Hearing
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
3. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?
State
Tribal
1203(b)(1) - Felony
English Common Law
4. What is a county law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Sheriff
1382
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
5. How many states use the death penalty?
State
Mala Prohibita
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
34
6. What does a judge order the probation department to write in order to find more about an individual before sentencing?
U.S. Court of Appeals
Government Attorney
Presentence Court Report
Stare Decisis
7. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
State
Yes
U.S. Court of Appeals
Bench Trial
8. What is the Latin term that means evil or bad in itself?
Mala en Se
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
50 - 25000
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
9. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
Judicial - Executive
Trials
Vigilantes
U.S. Marshall's
10. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?
Indeterminate Sentencing
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Arrangement
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
11. What two things do military police entities possess?
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Judicial System = Institutional System
King Chamberlain's Court
12. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?
Federal Court System
Broken Windows
County
8th Amendment
13. What are the two ancient codes that contributed to our current legal system?
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Sheriff
Future laws not passed yet
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
14. Which 1760s British tax law placed tax quotes on all paper based products imported into the colonies?
Nolo Contendre
Worse
Conditional Sentence
Stamp Act of 1765
15. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Sheriff or Shireeve
Punishment without trial
4th Amendment
16. What is the name for a felony complaint?
Punishment without trial
Hoover
Information
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
17. The Federal Court system was created through what?
Sheriff or Shireeve
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Judiciary Act
Preliminary Hearing
18. What major 1803 U.S. Supreme Court case established that the court would begin to interpret what the constitution was all about?
Marbury versus Madison
Constitutional Law
Stars
Yes
19. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Discretion
F.B.I
King John
20. What are the five levels of force among agencies?
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
King John
State
50 - 25000
21. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?
$1.7 million
First Continental Congress
17
Jurisdiction
22. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Mala en Se
Preliminary Hearing
830.1
23. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?
6th Amendment
Original Jurisdiction
Stamp Act of 1765
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
24. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
Evaluation
Adversarial System
Judiciary Act
Limited
25. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?
Better
Stamp Act of 1765
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Appeal
26. What is the main criteria which determines whether a mater goes to a federal or state court?
Formal Probation
Loosely Coupled System
Constitutional Law
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
27. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1930?
F.B.I.
4th Amendment
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Incapaciation
28. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
Yes
Discretion
Broken Windows
Stars
29. Who is in charge of staffing - calender - budget - and other material needs of the court room?
Court Administrator
14th Amendment
Patrick Colquhoun
Makes deals and not go to trial
30. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?
39
Article III of the Constitution
Formal Probation
State/Local Court System
31. What was the original staffing of the U.S. Supreme Court?
Deterrence
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Judicial System = Institutional System
1203(b)(1) - Felony
32. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Statue of Winchester
4th Amendment
Continue to another date
33. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
Patronage and Corruption
Makes deals and not go to trial
Tribal
1203(b)(1) - Felony
34. Which of the five major phases in the criminal justice system since 1965 produced major case law?
Stamp Act of 1765
Assistant District Attorneys
Due Process Phase
King John
35. What legal model first attempted the concept of rehabilitation and resocialization?
The Family Model
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Sir Robert Peel
Community Orientated Policing Era
36. The Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program motivated police to try what new procedures?
Presentence Court Report
Community Sensitive Programs
Sir Robert Peel
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
37. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
Miranda versus Arizona
Conditional Sentence
State
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
38. Other then UCRS and NIBRS - what entities compile information about crime in the country?
Felony
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
U.S. Court of Appeals
Adversarial System
39. Local California courts which handle misdemeanors - minor civil matters - and traffic violations are called what?
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
U.S. Marshall's
Judicial Review
Retribution
40. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?
Judiciary Act
Mala en Se
Judicial - Executive
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
41. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?
1382
Due Process
Sworn - Non-sworn
17 -500
42. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Mary Ann Crouse
1903
43. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?
Pretrial Hearing
State
F.B.I.
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
44. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?
Crime Control Due Process
Body - Amendments
Generalists
Very inactive
45. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?
Possecomintatus
F.B.I
Miranda versus Arizona
Misdemeanor
46. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Original Jurisdiction
Body - Amendments
Local level
47. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Formal Probation
Stare Decisis
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
48. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?
Formal Probation
Nolo Contendre
Bench Trial
King Henry II
49. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?
Retribution
Arrangement
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Evaluation
50. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?
1903
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Intermediate Courts