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Criminal Justice 101
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1. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?
14
Incorrigibles
Article III of the Constitution
George Washington - John Adams
2. Who said - 'The police are the public and the public are the police'?
Complaint
6th Amendment
Sir Robert Peel
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
3. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?
King Chamberlain's Court
1903
39
Conditional Sentence
4. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
Incorrigibles
Stamp Act of 1765
Bench Trial
Ah Peen
5. What is another term for informal probation?
Assistant District Attorneys
14
Conditional Sentence
Life
6. How many states use the death penalty?
34
39
1977 Dixon Bill
Appeals
7. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?
Lower Courts
English Common Law
Patronage
Trial
8. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
George Washington - John Adams
All volunteers
5th Amendment
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
9. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Tribal
Limited
4th Amendment
10. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
None
Vigilantes
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Assistant District Attorneys
11. Jail time - restitution - contact restrictions - drug testing - searches and seizures - employment verification - and counseling can be terms of what?
Intermediate Courts
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Formal Probation
Boston Massacre
12. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Habeas Corpus
Bill of Rights
The Penal Code
13. What does an aggravating factor make the report?
8th Amendment
90 Million
Worse
Due Process
14. How long is a federal judge's term of office for?
Life
39
Preliminary Hearing
U.S. Marshall's
15. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
U.S. Federal District Courts
State
Body - Amendments
Bill of Rights
16. What are the oldest law enforcement agencies in the country?
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17. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
90 Million
Prison Time - Death Sentence
F.B.I.
Special Police Force
18. In Orange County - what type of prosecuting attorneys handle the day to day issues in the court room?
Assistant District Attorneys
Patronage and Corruption
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Pretrial Hearing
19. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Trials
Crime Control Due Process
Appeals
20. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Courts
Local level
Pendelton Act
21. What does N.C.I.C. stand for?
King Henry II
Continue to another date
National Crime Information Center
Community Sensitive Programs
22. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?
17 -500
4th Amendment
Stare Decisis
830.1
23. Who were the country's first president and vice president?
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Conditional Sentence
Judiciary Act
George Washington - John Adams
24. Both felonies are misdemeanors are first filed as what?
Petition
4th Amendment
Complaint
Intermediate Courts
25. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Misdemeanor
Worse
26. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
All volunteers
27. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
Intermediate Courts
Sheriff or Shireeve
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Patrick Colquhoun
28. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
Judicial Review
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Misdemeanor
17 -500
29. What is the point of a second preliminary hearing?
Potential for Incarceration
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Worse
Preliminary Hearing
30. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?
Mary Ann Crouse
Stare Decisis
Patrick Colquhoun
Tribal
31. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
1899 Illinois
Complaint
Stars
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
32. What Latin term means great paper?
Magna Carta
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Generalists
14th Amendment
33. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?
State
Sheriff or Shireeve
Jurisdiction
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
34. When pleading guilty at a felony arrangement - what does the judge generally do for sentencing?
Continue to another date
Precedent
State Supreme Court
Better
35. What are the two types of defense attorneys?
Judiciary Act
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Vigilantes
Judicial System = Institutional System
36. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Tribal
14th Amendment
Dual System
37. What 1883 federal law stressed the need for a civil service system based upon merit?
Stars
None
Pendelton Act
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
38. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
Probation Officer
Stars
Crime Control Due Process
1203(b)(1) - Felony
39. What does a mitigating factor make the report?
Better
F.B.I.
State
Incorrigibles
40. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?
1977 Dixon Bill
1 and 8
Judiciary Act
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
41. What current California legal code did the Law of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses contribute to?
8th Amendment
$1.7 million
Arrangement
The Penal Code
42. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Preliminary Hearing
Very inactive
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
43. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?
85%
County
Appeal
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
44. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1987 as a supplement to UCRS?
County
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Trials
Misdemeanor
45. What is an offense that consists of illegal conduct but no jail time?
County
Infraction
Patronage and Corruption
Habeas Corpus
46. What Penal Code section states that the court shall refer to probation for a report?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Incorrigibles
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
47. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?
$1.7 million
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
London Metropolitan Police Act
48. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Loosely Coupled System
49. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
Marbury versus Madison
90 Million
Attorney General
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
50. What law enforcement agency maintains the largest training academy in the U.S.?
F.B.I.
Sir Robert Peel
830.1
U.S. Constitution