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Criminal Justice 101
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
14th Amendment
Stars
Adversarial System
Potential for Incarceration
2. What is an offense that consists of illegal conduct but no jail time?
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Infraction
830.1
Petition
3. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
Misdemeanor
14
1382
Judiciary Act
4. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
Loosely Coupled System
Patronage and Corruption
Change
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
5. What Latin term means - 'father or parent of the country?'
Parens Patriae
Petition
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
6. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Stare Decisis
Due Process Phase
Habeas Corpus
7. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?
Sheriff or Shireeve
Government Attorney
Misdemeanor
Bill of Rights
8. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?
Patronage and Corruption
State
King John
Stare Decisis
9. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?
830.1
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Parens Patriae
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
10. What is a county law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Sheriff
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Government Attorney
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
11. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?
State
14
Incorrigibles
Dual System
12. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?
1977 Dixon Bill
Attorney General
Crime Control - Due Process
Misdemeanor
13. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?
U.S. Court of Appeals
John Augustus
17
Pendelton Act
14. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?
Stare Decisis
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Crime Control Due Process
15. What are the five levels of force among agencies?
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
F.B.I
State
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
16. The average local law enforcement agency will often employ how many officers and serve what size population?
1383
Crime Control Due Process
50 - 25000
Sir Robert Peel
17. Generally speaking - what type of attorney is a prosecuting attorney?
Government Attorney
1382
County
Incorrigibles
18. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
King John
State
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
19. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
F.B.I
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
State/Local Court System
20. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
U.S. Constitution
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Government Attorney
F.B.I.
21. What two factors does a probation officer consider when writing the presentence report?
34
Magna Carta
Change
Aggravating - Mitigating
22. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
Misdemeanor
Worse
Court Administrator
Change
23. What is another term for informal probation?
National Crime Information Center
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
85%
Conditional Sentence
24. In 1829 which English government employee pushed a new law which followed the ideas of Patrick Colquhoun?
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Constitutional Law
Sir Robert Peel
Incorrigibles
25. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Yes
Own Recognizance
90 Million
26. Is the Federal or State court system older?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Probation Officer
Stars
State
27. Who is referred to as the father of probation?
90%
Makes deals and not go to trial
Preliminary Hearing
John Augustus
28. What are the four Cs of the criminal justice system?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
John Augustus
29. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?
Potential for Incarceration
Superior Court
Complaint
Trial
30. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?
Constitutional Law
Original Jurisdiction
Punishment without trial
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
31. What does a judge order the probation department to write in order to find more about an individual before sentencing?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
F.B.I
Presentence Court Report
Mary Ann Crouse
32. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?
17 -500
The Penal Code
90%
Deterrence
33. 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
Adversarial System
Arrangement
John Marshall
34. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Jurisdiction
The Family Model
35. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?
Federal Court System
Aggravating - Mitigating
Intermediate Courts
Preliminary Hearing
36. What does O.R. mean?
Own Recognizance
Broken Windows
Judicial/Legislative
Patronage and Corruption
37. Which 1760s British tax law placed tax quotes on all paper based products imported into the colonies?
Pendelton Act
Preliminary Hearing
Parens Patriae
Stamp Act of 1765
38. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
Trials
Adversarial System
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Pendelton Act
39. Local California courts which handle misdemeanors - minor civil matters - and traffic violations are called what?
Misdemeanor
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
40. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Serpico
Stare Decisis
50 - 25000
41. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Marbury versus Madison
State
Appeals
42. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
Deterrence
Nolo Contendre
London Metropolitan Police Act
Probation Officer
43. Negative political influence and corruption impacting 19th century U.S. police agencies was called what?
Life
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Judicial Review
Patronage
44. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Petition
Change
The Family Model
45. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?
Felony
Bench Trial
Pretrial Hearing
State
46. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
17 -500
F.B.I
Crime Control Due Process
U.S. Postal Inspectors
47. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
Incapaciation
Court Administrator
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
85%
48. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?
Magna Carta
English Common Law
County
17 -500
49. What is the average budget of a local law enforcement agency?
Article III of the Constitution
$1.7 million
Aggravating - Mitigating
Sheriff
50. What legal model first attempted the concept of rehabilitation and resocialization?
Makes deals and not go to trial
The Family Model
Lexington - Concord
Felony