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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What federal law enforcement agency delegated peace officer powers to citizens during the era of the wild west?
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2. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
Bench Trial
Discretion
Jurisdiction
Information
3. What concepts attempts to protect society by isolating others?
Stars
Incapaciation
State
Court Room Work Group
4. When pleading guilty at a felony arrangement - what does the judge generally do for sentencing?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Continue to another date
Mary Ann Crouse
State
5. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?
Pretrial Hearing
F.B.I.
1203(b)(1) - Felony
5th Amendment
6. Jail time - restitution - contact restrictions - drug testing - searches and seizures - employment verification - and counseling can be terms of what?
Trials
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Original Jurisdiction
Formal Probation
7. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?
Appeal
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Article III of the Constitution
Loosely Coupled System
8. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
Pendelton Act
English Common Law
Mala Prohibita
85%
9. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?
Formal Probation
17
The Family Model
Community Sensitive Programs
10. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
5th Amendment
Pendelton Act
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
830.1
11. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
Original Jurisdiction
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Potential for Incarceration
Bill of Rights
12. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?
Evaluation
Preliminary Hearing
Court Room Work Group
5th Amendment
13. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?
Evaluation
6th Amendment
Very inactive
The Family Model
14. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?
Sheriff or Shireeve
Courts
Own Recognizance
Attorney General
15. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Trials
Original Jurisdiction
Sheriff or Shireeve
16. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1930?
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Possecomintatus
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
17. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?
Original Jurisdiction
Stamp Act of 1765
Marbury versus Madison
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
18. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
Serpico
George Washington - John Adams
Yes
U.S. Federal District Courts
19. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
Change
Trial
Indeterminate Sentencing
Jurisdiction
20. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
34
Intermediate Courts
Broken Windows
21. The three federal courts are known as what?
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Retribution
Arrangement
4th Amendment
22. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?
Probation Officer
Habeas Corpus
Marbury versus Madison
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
23. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
John Marshall
Local level
Appeal
1903
24. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?
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Crime Control - Due Process
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
25. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Felony
U.S. Federal District Courts
Patronage
26. What 1838 Ohio State Supreme Court Case established the concept of Parens Patriae and no need for due process in juvenile matters?
Original Jurisdiction
Mary Ann Crouse
Judicial - Executive
Evaluation
27. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?
County
Stars
Miranda versus Arizona
Possecomintatus
28. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Patronage and Corruption
Nolo Contendre
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
29. Generally speaking - what type of attorney is a prosecuting attorney?
Sir Robert Peel
Government Attorney
Adversarial System
Judicial/Legislative
30. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?
Constitutional Law
Serpico
Sheriff
4th Amendment
31. In Orange County - what type of prosecuting attorneys handle the day to day issues in the court room?
Boston Massacre
Assistant District Attorneys
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Dual System
32. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
John Marshall
Secret Service
1977 Dixon Bill
33. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
Trials
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Evaluation
1203(b)(1) - Felony
34. The B.I.A. and the F.B.I. often provide support and assistance to what level of law enforcement agencies?
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Makes deals and not go to trial
Tribal
Yes
35. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?
Hoover
Stars
Sworn - Non-sworn
Trials
36. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?
Indeterminate Sentencing
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Original Jurisdiction
Secret Service
37. Who is referred to as the father of probation?
Judicial/Legislative
John Augustus
Retribution
Government Attorney
38. The Federal Court system was created through what?
Judiciary Act
34
Trial
Punishment without trial
39. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
State/Local Court System
40. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
17 -500
5th Amendment
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
41. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?
Patronage
Intermediate Courts
Crime Control Due Process
Statue of Winchester
42. Is the Federal or State court system older?
State
Hoover
London Metropolitan Police Act
U.S. Federal District Courts
43. What current California legal code did the Law of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses contribute to?
Discretion
The Penal Code
Punishment without trial
Original Jurisdiction
44. What type of bodies do our current laws come from?
John Augustus
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
85%
Judicial/Legislative
45. What is the State Court System's court of last resort?
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
State Supreme Court
English Common Law
King Chamberlain's Court
46. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Misdemeanor
Judicial - Executive
Potential for Incarceration
47. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
John Marshall
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
14
48. How long is a federal judge's term of office for?
Secret Service
U.S. Court of Appeals
Life
Special Police Force
49. The third federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
U.S. Federal District Courts
Ah Peen
Body - Amendments
F.B.I
50. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
85%
The Penal Code
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
State