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Criminal Justice 101
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1. After the U.S. Constitution was ratified - what type of court system did the U.S. realize it needed to have?
Discretion
Patrick Colquhoun
Federal Court System
Serpico
2. What were minors who disobeyed orders of the Kings Chancery Court system called?
Community Sensitive Programs
U.S. Court of Appeals
Incorrigibles
8th Amendment
3. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
Formal Probation
State
Assistant District Attorneys
Mala Prohibita
4. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
Judiciary Act
17
Habeas Corpus
Loosely Coupled System
5. What are the two ancient codes that contributed to our current legal system?
Presentence Court Report
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Misdemeanor
Sir Robert Peel
6. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
State
Discretion
Change
39
7. What English Common Law court system could arguably be seen as the world's first dedicated juvenile court?
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8. What 1865 federal law enforcement agency was initially responsible for excessive counterfeiting following the civil war?
Secret Service
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
F.B.I.
1903
9. What major 1829 English law created a centralized urban police force in London?
London Metropolitan Police Act
Patronage
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
85%
10. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?
Presentence Court Report
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Crime Control - Due Process
Sworn - Non-sworn
11. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Due Process Phase
Articles of Confederation
Local level
12. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
Evaluation
Felony
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Trials
13. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
George Washington - John Adams
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Local level
14. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Judicial - Executive
Information
F.B.I
Presentence Court Report
15. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?
14th Amendment
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
90%
Courts
16. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Lexington - Concord
1382
Judicial System = Institutional System
17. The Federal Court system was created through what?
Judiciary Act
Sir Robert Peel
State
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
18. What was the name of the article which encouraged law enforcement not just to focus on crime - but the social factors of crime?
Deterrence
Evaluation
14
Broken Windows
19. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
Marbury versus Madison
Evidence
90 Million
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
20. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
King Chamberlain's Court
21. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?
Pretrial Hearing
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Hoover
National Crime Information Center
22. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
State
Generalists
Discretion
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
23. What concept discusses 'an eye for an eye'?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Retribution
Stare Decisis
Deterrence
24. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
4th Amendment
County
1 and 8
None
25. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?
Judiciary Act
6th Amendment
State/Local Court System
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
26. In Orange County - what type of prosecuting attorneys handle the day to day issues in the court room?
John Augustus
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Assistant District Attorneys
27. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
Incapaciation
5th Amendment
Stare Decisis
Change
28. Where does a felony case begin?
Pretrial Hearing
London Metropolitan Police Act
Stars
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
29. What is the point of a second preliminary hearing?
Discretion
$1.7 million
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
30. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?
Possecomintatus
Due Process
State/Local Court System
Habeas Corpus
31. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1987 as a supplement to UCRS?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Parens Patriae
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
32. What does a judge order the probation department to write in order to find more about an individual before sentencing?
English Common Law
Presentence Court Report
4th Amendment
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
33. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Very inactive
King John
Incorrigibles
34. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?
Pendelton Act
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Dual System
35. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
39
Community Orientated Policing Era
Body - Amendments
36. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?
State
1899 Illinois
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Special Police Force
37. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Probation Officer
Lexington - Concord
Judicial System = Institutional System
38. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Original Jurisdiction
Conditional Sentence
Stars
39. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
Loosely Coupled System
King John
Felony
U.S. Federal District Courts
40. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?
Discretion
Loosely Coupled
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Sworn - Non-sworn
41. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?
17
Conditional Sentence
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
County
42. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Local level
8th Amendment
Discretion
43. The three federal courts are known as what?
90%
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Evidence
Yes
44. What is an offense that consists of illegal conduct but no jail time?
State
Infraction
Pretrial Hearing
Formal Probation
45. The third federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
U.S. Federal District Courts
Parens Patriae
Adversarial System
State
46. What was the original staffing of the U.S. Supreme Court?
6th Amendment
39
1203(b)(1) - Felony
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
47. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
Tribal
State Supreme Court
Arrangement
Judiciary Act
48. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
Broken Windows
London Metropolitan Police Act
1203(b)(1) - Felony
1383
49. Which of the five major phases in the criminal justice system since 1965 produced major case law?
Due Process Phase
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
All volunteers
Mary Ann Crouse
50. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
Limited
Attorney General
Due Process
85%