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Criminal Justice 101
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1. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
Aggravating - Mitigating
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Stars
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
2. What is another term for informal probation?
Precedent
$1.7 million
Conditional Sentence
Mala en Se
3. What was name of the era which was distinguished by the Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program?
Assistant District Attorneys
Parens Patriae
King Henry II
Community Orientated Policing Era
4. Who is in charge of staffing - calender - budget - and other material needs of the court room?
Local level
Court Administrator
Trial
Judiciary Act
5. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
4th Amendment
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
1382
6. What Penal Code section states that the court may refer to probation for a report?
Appeals
Makes deals and not go to trial
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
1383
7. What does ex-post facto law relate to?
Preliminary Hearing
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Future laws not passed yet
Due Process Phase
8. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?
Judicial Review
King Henry II
Court Room Work Group
County
9. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
Bill of Rights
Federal Court System
County
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
10. In 1789 which London magistrate stressed the need for a 'centralized' law enforcement agency?
Patrick Colquhoun
Body - Amendments
Article III of the Constitution
Stare Decisis
11. When court systems or levels disagree or question if rules are properly applied - what type of court is used?
Lower Courts
Crime Control - Due Process
Appeals
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
12. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Stamp Act of 1765
85%
Mala Prohibita
13. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
90 Million
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Patronage
Loosely Coupled
14. What concept attempts to alter future behaviors through threats of punishment and consequences?
Bill of Rights
F.B.I.
Deterrence
Formal Probation
15. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?
$1.7 million
Evaluation
Tribal
Judiciary Act
16. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
None
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
17. How long is a federal judge's term of office for?
Sheriff
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Life
Sheriff or Shireeve
18. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?
Miranda versus Arizona
Worse
John Marshall
Stamp Act of 1765
19. What does a mitigating factor make the report?
Incapaciation
Misdemeanor
Better
Hoover
20. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
Trials
Ah Peen
4th Amendment
Patrick Colquhoun
21. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?
Hoover
Mala en Se
17 -500
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
22. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?
17 -500
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
King Chamberlain's Court
U.S. Court of Appeals
23. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
Special Police Force
Mala Prohibita
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
National Crime Information Center
24. What does a judge order the probation department to write in order to find more about an individual before sentencing?
F.B.I
1382
Presentence Court Report
85%
25. What are the two types of defense attorneys?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
State
John Marshall
Due Process Phase
26. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?
Government Attorney
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Felony
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
27. What law enforcement agency maintains the largest training academy in the U.S.?
Intermediate Courts
Sheriff or Shireeve
Incorrigibles
F.B.I.
28. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?
Judicial/Legislative
Miranda versus Arizona
1899 Illinois
John Marshall
29. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
1977 Dixon Bill
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Intermediate Courts
Precedent
30. The power of the U.S. Supreme Court to interpret what the constitution says and means - via case law - is known as what?
Community Orientated Policing Era
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Judicial Review
31. If you plea guilty at a misdemeanor arraignment - when can a judge sentence you?
Right away
Trial
Lexington - Concord
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
32. What current California legal code did the Law of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses contribute to?
Discretion
The Penal Code
1203(b)(1) - Felony
U.S. Marshall's
33. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
5th Amendment
Evidence
Judicial - Executive
Misdemeanor
34. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?
Parens Patriae
Potential for Incarceration
King John
Preliminary Hearing
35. What does O.R. mean?
830.1
Stamp Act of 1765
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Own Recognizance
36. What concept discusses 'an eye for an eye'?
90%
F.B.I
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Retribution
37. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
Pretrial Hearing
Bill of Rights
Adversarial System
Conditional Sentence
38. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?
Sheriff or Shireeve
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Sworn - Non-sworn
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
39. Who said - 'The police are the public and the public are the police'?
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Evaluation
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Sir Robert Peel
40. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
Trial
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Serpico
41. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?
English Common Law
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
The Family Model
Crime Control - Due Process
42. What is meant by inferior courts?
The Penal Code
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
39
Lower Courts
43. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
1203(b)(1) - Felony
90 Million
Incapaciation
44. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
Pretrial Hearing
Government Attorney
Bench Trial
London Metropolitan Police Act
45. What is the name for a juvenile complaint?
Dual System
Local level
Petition
State/Local Court System
46. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
Discretion
Yes
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Lexington - Concord
47. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?
Court Administrator
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Precedent
Trial
48. Which 1760s British tax law placed tax quotes on all paper based products imported into the colonies?
Stamp Act of 1765
Courts
State Supreme Court
State
49. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1987 as a supplement to UCRS?
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
U.S. Constitution
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
50. What does N.C.I.C. stand for?
17
Mala en Se
National Crime Information Center
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders