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Criminal Justice 101
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1. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?
The Family Model
Hoover
Patronage
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
2. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
Probation Officer
Original Jurisdiction
Stars
Serpico
3. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
Nolo Contendre
Prison Time - Death Sentence
County
U.S. Marshall's
4. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Serpico
Discretion
5. What was the name of the group of people who went to Philadelphia in 1774 in order to discuss their unhappiness with Britain and its taxes?
Makes deals and not go to trial
Discretion
F.B.I
First Continental Congress
6. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Stars
County
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
7. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?
Sheriff
Judicial System = Institutional System
Worse
Sheriff or Shireeve
8. What does ex-post facto law relate to?
Assistant District Attorneys
Future laws not passed yet
Petition
6th Amendment
9. The average local law enforcement agency will often employ how many officers and serve what size population?
Discretion
50 - 25000
Superior Court
Pendelton Act
10. 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
First Continental Congress
Crime Control - Due Process
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
11. After the U.S. Constitution was ratified - what type of court system did the U.S. realize it needed to have?
Indeterminate Sentencing
English Common Law
Pendelton Act
Federal Court System
12. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?
14
Yes
5th Amendment
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
13. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?
Original Jurisdiction
Stare Decisis
Arrangement
Generalists
14. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1987 as a supplement to UCRS?
Original Jurisdiction
Vigilantes
National Crime Information Center
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
15. What do the majority of cases going into the U.S. District Court involve?
County
Adversarial System
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
16. What is a local law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Bench Trial
Chief
Articles of Confederation
State
17. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
Attorney General
50 - 25000
None
Felony
18. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
Sir Robert Peel
17 -500
Presentence Court Report
Judiciary Act
19. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
39
None
Community Sensitive Programs
20. Both felonies are misdemeanors are first filed as what?
Adversarial System
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Complaint
Prison Time - Death Sentence
21. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?
State
None
Crime Control - Due Process
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
22. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
Community Orientated Policing Era
Bench Trial
Serpico
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
23. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
Dual System
Incapaciation
Discretion
Special Police Force
24. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
Habeas Corpus
Precedent
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Constitutional Law
25. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?
Due Process
Precedent
4th Amendment
Mary Ann Crouse
26. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?
U.S. Court of Appeals
8th Amendment
14
1903
27. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?
Trial
U.S. Federal District Courts
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Precedent
28. What English Common Law court system could arguably be seen as the world's first dedicated juvenile court?
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29. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
Habeas Corpus
Discretion
Mary Ann Crouse
Sworn - Non-sworn
30. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?
Community Orientated Policing Era
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Arrangement
Miranda versus Arizona
31. What Latin term means - 'father or parent of the country?'
Miranda versus Arizona
90%
Lower Courts
Parens Patriae
32. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
$1.7 million
Superior Court
Preliminary Hearing
33. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?
Stare Decisis
Hoover
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Evaluation
34. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?
Adversarial System
Due Process
State
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
35. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?
Tribal
Possecomintatus
Jurisdiction
Discretion
36. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?
14th Amendment
Evidence
Aggravating - Mitigating
Life
37. What 1838 Ohio State Supreme Court Case established the concept of Parens Patriae and no need for due process in juvenile matters?
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Mary Ann Crouse
Nolo Contendre
1 and 8
38. What are the five levels of force among agencies?
Sheriff or Shireeve
17 -500
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
39. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?
The Family Model
8th Amendment
17 -500
Due Process
40. In Orange County - what type of prosecuting attorneys handle the day to day issues in the court room?
Discretion
Assistant District Attorneys
50 - 25000
Court Room Work Group
41. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
Indeterminate Sentencing
Trials
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
London Metropolitan Police Act
42. 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
Broken Windows
Superior Court
Life
43. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Court Administrator
$1.7 million
Makes deals and not go to trial
44. What legal model first attempted the concept of rehabilitation and resocialization?
Secret Service
Original Jurisdiction
The Family Model
Future laws not passed yet
45. During the Revolutionary War what major document helped to guide the colonies in fighting their war against Britain?
Marbury versus Madison
1383
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Articles of Confederation
46. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
Deterrence
Ah Peen
Lower Courts
Stare Decisis
47. Which 1760s British tax law placed tax quotes on all paper based products imported into the colonies?
Court Room Work Group
Limited
Stamp Act of 1765
14th Amendment
48. The Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program motivated police to try what new procedures?
Community Sensitive Programs
Discretion
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Assistant District Attorneys
49. In which two locations did the actual shooting war begin between British soldiers and Colonial militia men?
Lexington - Concord
14
Stars
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
50. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?
Local level
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Jurisdiction
Lexington - Concord