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Criminal Justice 101
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1. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
17 -500
Court Administrator
Jurisdiction
Future laws not passed yet
2. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
Indeterminate Sentencing
F.B.I
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Appeal
3. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
Tribal
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Bill of Rights
4. Where does a felony case begin?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Presentence Court Report
Generalists
Very inactive
5. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
Adversarial System
Serpico
The Family Model
Evidence
6. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
State
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
39
7. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Arrangement
Government Attorney
State
8. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
1903
830.1
London Metropolitan Police Act
Future laws not passed yet
9. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
Adversarial System
John Marshall
Sir Robert Peel
1382
10. In which two locations did the actual shooting war begin between British soldiers and Colonial militia men?
1 and 8
Original Jurisdiction
Lexington - Concord
14th Amendment
11. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?
Sheriff or Shireeve
Statue of Winchester
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Original Jurisdiction
12. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
1 and 8
Mala Prohibita
Statue of Winchester
Original Jurisdiction
13. What is meant by inferior courts?
1899 Illinois
National Crime Information Center
Lower Courts
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
14. The third federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
U.S. Federal District Courts
Article III of the Constitution
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
State Supreme Court
15. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
Judicial System = Institutional System
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Adversarial System
1 and 8
16. What 1883 federal law stressed the need for a civil service system based upon merit?
Assistant District Attorneys
Pendelton Act
Stare Decisis
Due Process
17. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?
Intermediate Courts
Patrick Colquhoun
Constitutional Law
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
18. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
Presentence Court Report
Federal Court System
Pendelton Act
Loosely Coupled
19. What does an aggravating factor make the report?
Worse
Adversarial System
Judicial - Executive
Pendelton Act
20. What does a judge order the probation department to write in order to find more about an individual before sentencing?
Attorney General
Bench Trial
Presentence Court Report
Broken Windows
21. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?
Patronage
Possecomintatus
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
State
22. What two factors does a probation officer consider when writing the presentence report?
Aggravating - Mitigating
39
Original Jurisdiction
Infraction
23. How long is a federal judge's term of office for?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Judicial System = Institutional System
U.S. Constitution
Life
24. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Discretion
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Miranda versus Arizona
25. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?
Petition
Special Police Force
Very inactive
14
26. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Habeas Corpus
U.S. Court of Appeals
County
27. What does ex-post facto law relate to?
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Jurisdiction
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Future laws not passed yet
28. The Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program motivated police to try what new procedures?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Mala en Se
Community Sensitive Programs
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
29. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Future laws not passed yet
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
1203(b)(1) - Felony
30. What was the name of the article which encouraged law enforcement not just to focus on crime - but the social factors of crime?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Precedent
Broken Windows
39
31. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
8th Amendment
1903
Local level
1 and 8
32. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?
Patronage and Corruption
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Jurisdiction
33. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?
17 -500
1 and 8
Constitutional Law
Miranda versus Arizona
34. What Penal Code section states that the court shall refer to probation for a report?
Very inactive
1203(b)(1) - Felony
1899 Illinois
F.B.I
35. During the Revolutionary War what major document helped to guide the colonies in fighting their war against Britain?
Infraction
Articles of Confederation
Loosely Coupled
Information
36. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
Preliminary Hearing
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
F.B.I.
George Washington - John Adams
37. What does a mitigating factor make the report?
Better
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Judiciary Act
90%
38. Who is in charge of staffing - calender - budget - and other material needs of the court room?
The Family Model
Court Administrator
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Preliminary Hearing
39. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
1383
17
U.S. Constitution
Body - Amendments
40. If you plea guilty at a misdemeanor arraignment - when can a judge sentence you?
90 Million
Infraction
Right away
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
41. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?
Due Process
All volunteers
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
42. What two things do military police entities possess?
Complaint
Judicial System = Institutional System
Parens Patriae
Pretrial Hearing
43. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
King John
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
State/Local Court System
44. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?
Community Orientated Policing Era
Sworn - Non-sworn
Court Administrator
State/Local Court System
45. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
Chief
Punishment without trial
1977 Dixon Bill
Serpico
46. What type of bodies do our current laws come from?
Own Recognizance
Judicial/Legislative
Pendelton Act
Original Jurisdiction
47. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Deterrence
Attorney General
48. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?
Mary Ann Crouse
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Miranda versus Arizona
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
49. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
Broken Windows
Government Attorney
85%
All volunteers
50. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?
English Common Law
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Lower Courts
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