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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
90 Million
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Judicial - Executive
2. What does a preliminary hearing determine?
14
Possecomintatus
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
3. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
F.B.I.
14th Amendment
County
4. What are the two main functions of criminal courts?
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5. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
39
830.1
F.B.I
Aggravating - Mitigating
6. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
90%
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Stars
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
7. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
Judiciary Act
39
Original Jurisdiction
Yes
8. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
17 -500
Possecomintatus
Own Recognizance
9. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?
1903
Habeas Corpus
Serpico
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
10. What were minors who disobeyed orders of the Kings Chancery Court system called?
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Incorrigibles
Patronage
11. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?
Parens Patriae
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Loosely Coupled
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
12. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
King Henry II
Yes
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Original Jurisdiction
13. The B.I.A. and the F.B.I. often provide support and assistance to what level of law enforcement agencies?
Lexington - Concord
Preliminary Hearing
State
Tribal
14. What are the oldest law enforcement agencies in the country?
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15. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?
Articles of Confederation
County
Ah Peen
14
16. What are the two types of defense attorneys?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Original Jurisdiction
Sheriff or Shireeve
The Family Model
17. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
Habeas Corpus
Boston Massacre
Preliminary Hearing
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
18. Who is in charge of staffing - calender - budget - and other material needs of the court room?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Court Administrator
King John
19. 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?
Appeal
King Chamberlain's Court
U.S. Federal District Courts
First Continental Congress
20. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
Original Jurisdiction
Statue of Winchester
Crime Control - Due Process
None
21. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
All volunteers
Bill of Rights
Pretrial Hearing
90 Million
22. What is another term for informal probation?
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Judiciary Act
Habeas Corpus
Conditional Sentence
23. When pleading guilty at a felony arrangement - what does the judge generally do for sentencing?
Evaluation
Continue to another date
Court Room Work Group
Stare Decisis
24. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
85%
Discretion
Local level
Jurisdiction
25. The Federal Court system was created through what?
Stamp Act of 1765
Preliminary Hearing
Judiciary Act
Pretrial Hearing
26. What do the majority of cases going into the U.S. District Court involve?
Special Police Force
National Crime Information Center
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Community Orientated Policing Era
27. Negative political influence and corruption impacting 19th century U.S. police agencies was called what?
Life
Bill of Rights
8th Amendment
Patronage
28. In Orange County - what type of prosecuting attorneys handle the day to day issues in the court room?
State
Assistant District Attorneys
Loosely Coupled
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
29. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?
Broken Windows
Arrangement
Appeal
George Washington - John Adams
30. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?
National Crime Information Center
Retribution
King Chamberlain's Court
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
31. How long is a federal judge's term of office for?
Deterrence
Mala en Se
Life
Preliminary Hearing
32. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?
U.S. Court of Appeals
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
The Penal Code
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
33. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
Presentence Court Report
17 -500
County
Limited
34. What does O.R. mean?
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Own Recognizance
5th Amendment
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
35. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?
Crime Control - Due Process
Stars
Article III of the Constitution
Pendelton Act
36. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?
State
County
Secret Service
John Marshall
37. 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
Evidence
1382
Pretrial Hearing
38. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
Adversarial System
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Generalists
5th Amendment
39. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?
Patronage and Corruption
Lower Courts
Mala Prohibita
Yes
40. Under English Common Law what was the general cut off age in distinguishing between those who could charged with felonies?
14
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Patrick Colquhoun
Special Police Force
41. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
Mala Prohibita
U.S. Constitution
State
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
42. In which two locations did the actual shooting war begin between British soldiers and Colonial militia men?
Lexington - Concord
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Statue of Winchester
43. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?
39
Articles of Confederation
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Original Jurisdiction
44. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
Constitutional Law
Statue of Winchester
Retribution
Preliminary Hearing
45. The third federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
National Crime Information Center
Felony
Crime Control Due Process
U.S. Federal District Courts
46. The average local law enforcement agency will often employ how many officers and serve what size population?
50 - 25000
Crime Control - Due Process
Appeals
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
47. When court systems or levels disagree or question if rules are properly applied - what type of court is used?
Attorney General
Local level
Appeals
Aggravating - Mitigating
48. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?
London Metropolitan Police Act
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Worse
8th Amendment
49. How is a jury panel selected?
Discretion
The Family Model
Nolo Contendre
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
50. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?
1899 Illinois
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Loosely Coupled System
Adversarial System
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