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Criminal Justice 101
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What does a judge order the probation department to write in order to find more about an individual before sentencing?
Presentence Court Report
Judiciary Act
Court Room Work Group
Hoover
2. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?
Magna Carta
Constitutional Law
Hoover
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
3. What are the oldest law enforcement agencies in the country?
4. What were minors who disobeyed orders of the Kings Chancery Court system called?
Probation Officer
Judicial System = Institutional System
Deterrence
Incorrigibles
5. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
Government Attorney
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
F.B.I
Stars
6. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?
Very inactive
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
14
None
7. When pleading guilty at a felony arrangement - what does the judge generally do for sentencing?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Continue to another date
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Possecomintatus
8. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?
Jurisdiction
London Metropolitan Police Act
Patronage
Special Police Force
9. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?
8th Amendment
Special Police Force
Original Jurisdiction
Judicial System = Institutional System
10. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?
Preliminary Hearing
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
1 and 8
8th Amendment
11. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?
Boston Massacre
Body - Amendments
Possecomintatus
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
12. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
1383
Appeal
Sheriff or Shireeve
None
13. If you plea guilty at a misdemeanor arraignment - when can a judge sentence you?
Right away
State Supreme Court
Judicial System = Institutional System
State
14. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
Broken Windows
1382
Preliminary Hearing
Judicial - Executive
15. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?
F.B.I.
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
English Common Law
Broken Windows
16. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?
U.S. Court of Appeals
Bill of Rights
John Marshall
1899 Illinois
17. What concepts attempts to protect society by isolating others?
Incapaciation
90 Million
1899 Illinois
Life
18. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?
Special Police Force
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
King John
Appeals
19. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?
Appeal
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Bill of Rights
Original Jurisdiction
20. What is the State Court System's court of last resort?
Retribution
State Supreme Court
Superior Court
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
21. 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
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
8th Amendment
830.1
22. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?
English Common Law
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Own Recognizance
Attorney General
23. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?
Trials
Very inactive
Assistant District Attorneys
8th Amendment
24. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
Tribal
1382
Jurisdiction
Loosely Coupled System
25. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?
Own Recognizance
Very inactive
State
First Continental Congress
26. In 1789 which London magistrate stressed the need for a 'centralized' law enforcement agency?
90 Million
Patrick Colquhoun
Chief
Marbury versus Madison
27. What is the point of a second preliminary hearing?
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Constitutional Law
28. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
6th Amendment
1977 Dixon Bill
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
29. Under English Common Law what was the general cut off age in distinguishing between those who could charged with felonies?
English Common Law
14
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Pretrial Hearing
30. The three federal courts are known as what?
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
34
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
31. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?
Tribal
17
1899 Illinois
Conditional Sentence
32. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Tribal
Retribution
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
33. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Stars
Yes
Evaluation
34. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Appeal
Judicial - Executive
1903
35. In what year and state was the country's first dedicated juvenile justice system and court legally established?
8th Amendment
1 and 8
1899 Illinois
Deterrence
36. What is the main criteria which determines whether a mater goes to a federal or state court?
Patronage
6th Amendment
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
37. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?
Information
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
King Chamberlain's Court
Nolo Contendre
38. What two things do military police entities possess?
Judicial System = Institutional System
Complaint
State Supreme Court
Chief
39. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
Formal Probation
Continue to another date
Preliminary Hearing
Limited
40. What is an offense that consists of illegal conduct but no jail time?
Infraction
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
41. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?
90%
Trial
Prison Time - Death Sentence
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
42. How is a jury panel selected?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Life
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
50 - 25000
43. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?
Article III of the Constitution
1903
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Probation Officer
44. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
Future laws not passed yet
Potential for Incarceration
Precedent
85%
45. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?
Dual System
Due Process
Parens Patriae
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
46. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?
Special Police Force
Evaluation
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Superior Court
47. After the U.S. Constitution was ratified - what type of court system did the U.S. realize it needed to have?
Ah Peen
Special Police Force
Federal Court System
U.S. Federal District Courts
48. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?
Own Recognizance
Stamp Act of 1765
Felony
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
49. What is the Latin term that means evil or bad in itself?
Marbury versus Madison
8th Amendment
London Metropolitan Police Act
Mala en Se
50. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
Constitutional Law
Vigilantes
State
John Augustus