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Criminal Justice 101
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1. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
Due Process
Worse
Own Recognizance
90 Million
2. What was the name of the article which encouraged law enforcement not just to focus on crime - but the social factors of crime?
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Aggravating - Mitigating
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Broken Windows
3. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?
Bench Trial
17 -500
State
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
4. What concepts attempts to protect society by isolating others?
Incapaciation
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Statue of Winchester
Preliminary Hearing
5. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?
Evidence
The Family Model
Adversarial System
Own Recognizance
6. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?
Community Sensitive Programs
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
7. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Very inactive
None
Stamp Act of 1765
8. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Mala Prohibita
F.B.I.
9. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?
Deterrence
Original Jurisdiction
State
Judicial System = Institutional System
10. What Penal Code section states that the court may refer to probation for a report?
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Deterrence
Presentence Court Report
Information
11. What does an aggravating factor make the report?
Loosely Coupled System
Worse
Original Jurisdiction
1382
12. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?
Local level
Discretion
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Court Room Work Group
13. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?
Stare Decisis
Trials
County
Judicial/Legislative
14. What are the two types of defense attorneys?
Possecomintatus
Judiciary Act
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
U.S. Constitution
15. Who were the country's first president and vice president?
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
F.B.I.
George Washington - John Adams
Judicial/Legislative
16. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Serpico
17. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Miranda versus Arizona
Habeas Corpus
State
18. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?
Original Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction
14th Amendment
1903
19. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?
Stare Decisis
Possecomintatus
Felony
Own Recognizance
20. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?
Original Jurisdiction
Statue of Winchester
Patronage and Corruption
Pendelton Act
21. What is the main criteria which determines whether a mater goes to a federal or state court?
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Ah Peen
Tribal
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
22. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?
Crime Control Due Process
Assistant District Attorneys
John Marshall
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
23. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
Probation Officer
Due Process Phase
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
24. In Orange County - what type of prosecuting attorneys handle the day to day issues in the court room?
Assistant District Attorneys
1977 Dixon Bill
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Hoover
25. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?
Appeal
London Metropolitan Police Act
Deterrence
1 and 8
26. Other then UCRS and NIBRS - what entities compile information about crime in the country?
17 -500
Preliminary Hearing
F.B.I.
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
27. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
Miranda versus Arizona
14
King Henry II
Potential for Incarceration
28. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
Incorrigibles
1 and 8
39
5th Amendment
29. What concept attempts to alter future behaviors through threats of punishment and consequences?
F.B.I.
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Deterrence
6th Amendment
30. What is a county law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Trials
14
Boston Massacre
Sheriff
31. What is a local law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Chief
Mala Prohibita
State
First Continental Congress
32. What are the four Cs of the criminal justice system?
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Worse
Courts
Indeterminate Sentencing
33. How many states use the death penalty?
34
Conditional Sentence
Own Recognizance
Better
34. The Federal Court system was created through what?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Judiciary Act
Preliminary Hearing
34
35. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?
Worse
Crime Control - Due Process
State/Local Court System
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
36. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?
Evaluation
Superior Court
1382
U.S. Court of Appeals
37. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?
Crime Control - Due Process
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
State
17 -500
38. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
Discretion
Judicial/Legislative
All volunteers
Vigilantes
39. What do the majority of cases going into the U.S. District Court involve?
Constitutional Law
Conditional Sentence
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Own Recognizance
40. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?
Attorney General
National Crime Information Center
Judicial - Executive
Due Process
41. What do bills of attainer relate to?
County
Retribution
Punishment without trial
Due Process Phase
42. What two things do military police entities possess?
Attorney General
Life
Judicial System = Institutional System
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
43. What was name of the era which was distinguished by the Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program?
Attorney General
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Habeas Corpus
Community Orientated Policing Era
44. What are the oldest law enforcement agencies in the country?
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45. What English Common Law court system could arguably be seen as the world's first dedicated juvenile court?
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46. 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?
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Potential for Incarceration
First Continental Congress
Court Room Work Group
47. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
First Continental Congress
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
1382
Sheriff or Shireeve
48. Which 1760s British tax law placed tax quotes on all paper based products imported into the colonies?
Court Room Work Group
The Penal Code
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Stamp Act of 1765
49. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
Judiciary Act
Secret Service
Constitutional Law
Crime Control - Due Process
50. What type of bodies do our current laws come from?
Appeal
1903
Judicial/Legislative
1203(b)(1) - Felony