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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What are the oldest law enforcement agencies in the country?
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2. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?
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Information
Sheriff or Shireeve
3. Is the Federal or State court system older?
The Penal Code
State
Retribution
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
4. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?
Pretrial Hearing
Judicial System = Institutional System
Arrangement
All volunteers
5. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
Preliminary Hearing
Government Attorney
Courts
State
6. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
Dual System
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Parens Patriae
London Metropolitan Police Act
7. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
Due Process Phase
U.S. Court of Appeals
U.S. Federal District Courts
Due Process
8. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?
Article III of the Constitution
17
The Penal Code
Trial
9. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Judicial/Legislative
1383
State
10. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1930?
Incorrigibles
State
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Preliminary Hearing
11. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
Loosely Coupled
Parens Patriae
Bill of Rights
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12. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
Mala Prohibita
State
Statue of Winchester
17 -500
13. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?
Potential for Incarceration
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Life
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
14. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
Preliminary Hearing
830.1
Statue of Winchester
Misdemeanor
15. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?
Government Attorney
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Dual System
U.S. Postal Inspectors
16. In what year and state was the country's first dedicated juvenile justice system and court legally established?
Generalists
1899 Illinois
Indeterminate Sentencing
Jurisdiction
17. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
Articles of Confederation
39
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Lower Courts
18. What are the five levels of force among agencies?
8th Amendment
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Pendelton Act
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
19. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?
County
Magna Carta
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Sir Robert Peel
20. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Punishment without trial
All volunteers
Magna Carta
21. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?
Punishment without trial
90%
85%
Discretion
22. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
Indeterminate Sentencing
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Tribal
Future laws not passed yet
23. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
Assistant District Attorneys
Worse
Adversarial System
County
24. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Hoover
1383
Intermediate Courts
25. After the U.S. Constitution was ratified - what type of court system did the U.S. realize it needed to have?
Dual System
Federal Court System
6th Amendment
Article III of the Constitution
26. What were minors who disobeyed orders of the Kings Chancery Court system called?
Incorrigibles
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
All volunteers
Information
27. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
Mala en Se
First Continental Congress
Vigilantes
34
28. What are the four Cs of the criminal justice system?
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UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
29. Other then UCRS and NIBRS - what entities compile information about crime in the country?
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Yes
Bench Trial
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
30. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?
King Henry II
Incorrigibles
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
The Family Model
31. During the Revolutionary War what major document helped to guide the colonies in fighting their war against Britain?
Articles of Confederation
34
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Judiciary Act
32. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
Limited
Body - Amendments
National Crime Information Center
Original Jurisdiction
33. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
Loosely Coupled
Federal Court System
39
Special Police Force
34. What is a county law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Original Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Sheriff
35. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?
Possecomintatus
$1.7 million
Federal Court System
Trial
36. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Stare Decisis
Crime Control Due Process
Formal Probation
37. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?
State/Local Court System
U.S. Court of Appeals
Judiciary Act
Due Process
38. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?
Crime Control - Due Process
F.B.I
90%
Tribal
39. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?
Original Jurisdiction
State
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
34
40. Where does a felony case begin?
Serpico
Patrick Colquhoun
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
41. What concept attempts to alter future behaviors through threats of punishment and consequences?
Magna Carta
Evidence
Deterrence
First Continental Congress
42. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?
Yes
Special Police Force
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
43. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
Conditional Sentence
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Sheriff or Shireeve
Potential for Incarceration
44. Does a county law enforcement agency head administrator generally require law enforcement experience?
Yes
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
4th Amendment
First Continental Congress
45. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?
King John
Makes deals and not go to trial
Sir Robert Peel
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
46. The Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program motivated police to try what new procedures?
Limited
Petition
8th Amendment
Community Sensitive Programs
47. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
Information
Judiciary Act
Preliminary Hearing
King Henry II
48. Under English Common Law what was the general cut off age in distinguishing between those who could charged with felonies?
14
Appeal
Judicial System = Institutional System
Federal Court System
49. What are the two types of defense attorneys?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Trial
Aggravating - Mitigating
King Chamberlain's Court
50. What was the name of the article which encouraged law enforcement not just to focus on crime - but the social factors of crime?
Yes
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Federal Court System
Broken Windows