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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Sheriff or Shireeve
Very inactive
Tribal
2. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
John Marshall
Original Jurisdiction
Generalists
Possecomintatus
3. Generally speaking - what type of attorney is a prosecuting attorney?
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Government Attorney
Future laws not passed yet
Presentence Court Report
4. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
All volunteers
Pretrial Hearing
Pendelton Act
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
5. What is the main criteria which determines whether a mater goes to a federal or state court?
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
39
6. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?
Evaluation
Article III of the Constitution
Judicial/Legislative
6th Amendment
7. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?
State
Evidence
King Henry II
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
8. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?
Appeals
Sir Robert Peel
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Judicial Review
9. What current California legal code did the Law of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses contribute to?
Constitutional Law
The Penal Code
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Sworn - Non-sworn
10. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Dual System
King John
Nolo Contendre
11. What legal model first attempted the concept of rehabilitation and resocialization?
Crime Control - Due Process
The Family Model
Appeal
Sheriff or Shireeve
12. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
Attorney General
Evaluation
Statue of Winchester
Bench Trial
13. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Nolo Contendre
Bill of Rights
17 -500
14. What are the two main functions of criminal courts?
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15. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?
The Family Model
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Original Jurisdiction
Precedent
16. What does a mitigating factor make the report?
1383
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Better
17. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
Tribal
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Misdemeanor
Serpico
18. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
Magna Carta
90 Million
Attorney General
Sir Robert Peel
19. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
Loosely Coupled
Adversarial System
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Change
20. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
1382
U.S. Federal District Courts
Pretrial Hearing
21. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Courts
Sworn - Non-sworn
Loosely Coupled System
22. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
U.S. Court of Appeals
First Continental Congress
U.S. Marshall's
Bench Trial
23. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?
Change
39
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Local level
24. What two factors does a probation officer consider when writing the presentence report?
39
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Aggravating - Mitigating
5th Amendment
25. Who runs the N.C.I.C.?
Potential for Incarceration
F.B.I
Judicial/Legislative
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
26. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Due Process Phase
Worse
Complaint
27. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
Stars
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Dual System
Secret Service
28. The average local law enforcement agency will often employ how many officers and serve what size population?
Original Jurisdiction
All volunteers
Habeas Corpus
50 - 25000
29. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?
Conditional Sentence
Preliminary Hearing
14
Original Jurisdiction
30. Under English Common Law what was the general cut off age in distinguishing between those who could charged with felonies?
Vigilantes
1383
Aggravating - Mitigating
14
31. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?
Jurisdiction
Continue to another date
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
90 Million
32. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?
Evaluation
Chief
Intermediate Courts
1903
33. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?
Special Police Force
John Marshall
F.B.I.
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
34. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
Change
Probation Officer
Constitutional Law
Formal Probation
35. Where does a felony case begin?
90 Million
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Government Attorney
U.S. Postal Inspectors
36. What concept attempts to alter future behaviors through threats of punishment and consequences?
17 -500
1977 Dixon Bill
State
Deterrence
37. What major 1829 English law created a centralized urban police force in London?
London Metropolitan Police Act
Formal Probation
Sir Robert Peel
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
38. Who said - 'The police are the public and the public are the police'?
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Evidence
Sir Robert Peel
Vigilantes
39. What is the point of a second preliminary hearing?
The Family Model
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Discretion
Punishment without trial
40. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Evidence
State
First Continental Congress
41. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
Evidence
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
5th Amendment
42. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Better
Judiciary Act
Discretion
43. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?
County
Petition
1382
14
44. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
U.S. Court of Appeals
39
Magna Carta
45. What does N.C.I.C. stand for?
Arrangement
National Crime Information Center
Chief
London Metropolitan Police Act
46. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
17 -500
Worse
Yes
Prison Time - Death Sentence
47. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Petition
Possecomintatus
Preliminary Hearing
48. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
1382
Habeas Corpus
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
49. What is another term for informal probation?
Community Sensitive Programs
Conditional Sentence
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Marbury versus Madison
50. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Local level
Infraction
Government Attorney