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Criminal Justice 101
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1. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
Pendelton Act
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Worse
Hoover
2. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?
U.S. Court of Appeals
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Body - Amendments
5th Amendment
3. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
Formal Probation
Discretion
Marbury versus Madison
Change
4. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?
90%
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
U.S. Court of Appeals
5. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?
All volunteers
Body - Amendments
Trial
Arrangement
6. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
The Family Model
85%
Stamp Act of 1765
Adversarial System
7. What does a preliminary hearing determine?
Tribal
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Infraction
8. What does N.C.I.C. stand for?
Discretion
National Crime Information Center
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
State
9. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?
Constitutional Law
Stare Decisis
None
Bill of Rights
10. What is the average budget of a local law enforcement agency?
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Due Process
$1.7 million
11. Other then UCRS and NIBRS - what entities compile information about crime in the country?
London Metropolitan Police Act
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Constitutional Law
12. What is the name for a felony complaint?
Information
Conditional Sentence
Mala en Se
Nolo Contendre
13. What was name of the era which was distinguished by the Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program?
Community Orientated Policing Era
6th Amendment
Own Recognizance
The Family Model
14. Which 1760s British tax law placed tax quotes on all paper based products imported into the colonies?
Stamp Act of 1765
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Makes deals and not go to trial
Special Police Force
15. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?
Punishment without trial
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Courts
Mala en Se
16. What 1838 Ohio State Supreme Court Case established the concept of Parens Patriae and no need for due process in juvenile matters?
17
Future laws not passed yet
Information
Mary Ann Crouse
17. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
Trial
Punishment without trial
Limited
Indeterminate Sentencing
18. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
All volunteers
Makes deals and not go to trial
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
19. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?
50 - 25000
Serpico
6th Amendment
Vigilantes
20. Is the Federal or State court system older?
State
King Chamberlain's Court
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Article III of the Constitution
21. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?
State
County
Arrangement
Mary Ann Crouse
22. The power of the U.S. Supreme Court to interpret what the constitution says and means - via case law - is known as what?
14th Amendment
Judicial Review
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Hoover
23. What is the name for a juvenile complaint?
Worse
Articles of Confederation
Habeas Corpus
Petition
24. What west coast supreme court case in 1876 further established the philosophy of Parens Patriae and no due process for juveniles?
Sir Robert Peel
George Washington - John Adams
Incorrigibles
Ah Peen
25. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
Indeterminate Sentencing
State
8th Amendment
Magna Carta
26. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?
Evidence
Court Room Work Group
Continue to another date
English Common Law
27. What type of bodies do our current laws come from?
Appeal
Sheriff
Judicial/Legislative
39
28. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Aggravating - Mitigating
Possecomintatus
Felony
29. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
830.1
Continue to another date
Preliminary Hearing
Article III of the Constitution
30. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Discretion
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Community Orientated Policing Era
31. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?
Generalists
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Incorrigibles
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
32. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Crime Control - Due Process
Habeas Corpus
Adversarial System
33. What 1770 shooting incident heightened tensions between Boston colonists and newly arrived British soldiers?
Boston Massacre
Judicial Review
Probation Officer
Dual System
34. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Tribal
Parens Patriae
35. What do bills of attainer relate to?
Potential for Incarceration
Punishment without trial
Mala en Se
Mala Prohibita
36. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
None
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
1977 Dixon Bill
1382
37. What is another term for informal probation?
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Retribution
Conditional Sentence
39
38. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Vigilantes
Patronage
Adversarial System
39. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
Articles of Confederation
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
8th Amendment
State
40. In what year and state was the country's first dedicated juvenile justice system and court legally established?
1899 Illinois
Tribal
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
41. Jail time - restitution - contact restrictions - drug testing - searches and seizures - employment verification - and counseling can be terms of what?
State Supreme Court
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Formal Probation
Incapaciation
42. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
1382
Stare Decisis
34
Crime Control - Due Process
43. What law enforcement agency maintains the largest training academy in the U.S.?
Secret Service
Information
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
F.B.I.
44. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?
Mala en Se
Continue to another date
8th Amendment
State/Local Court System
45. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
Judiciary Act
Stare Decisis
Bench Trial
Nolo Contendre
46. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
Change
U.S. Marshall's
Local level
Formal Probation
47. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?
Original Jurisdiction
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
None
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
48. Under English Common Law what was the general cut off age in distinguishing between those who could charged with felonies?
Judiciary Act
14
17
Tribal
49. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
Judiciary Act
Parens Patriae
Adversarial System
Loosely Coupled System
50. Who is referred to as the father of probation?
Due Process
John Augustus
Body - Amendments
Trials