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Criminal Justice 101
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1. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
Deterrence
Vigilantes
Judicial System = Institutional System
1977 Dixon Bill
2. What is an offense that consists of illegal conduct but no jail time?
Felony
English Common Law
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Infraction
3. What are the five levels of force among agencies?
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Courts
State
All volunteers
4. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?
Punishment without trial
14th Amendment
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
U.S. Constitution
5. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?
Change
90%
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Mary Ann Crouse
6. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
6th Amendment
U.S. Court of Appeals
Due Process
7. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?
Loosely Coupled System
17 -500
Petition
Pretrial Hearing
8. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
George Washington - John Adams
Indeterminate Sentencing
9. What federal law enforcement agency delegated peace officer powers to citizens during the era of the wild west?
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10. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
Trial
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Local level
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
11. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
State
Evaluation
Judicial Review
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
12. Where does a felony case begin?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Adversarial System
Probation Officer
Presentence Court Report
13. The three federal courts are known as what?
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Conditional Sentence
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
14. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
State
Worse
Nolo Contendre
Lexington - Concord
15. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?
Community Sensitive Programs
Infraction
U.S. Marshall's
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
16. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?
None
Due Process
Arrangement
Loosely Coupled
17. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
Continue to another date
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
State Supreme Court
John Augustus
18. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?
Judiciary Act
Court Room Work Group
Original Jurisdiction
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
19. What are the four Cs of the criminal justice system?
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
14
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
20. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?
Very inactive
Court Room Work Group
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Potential for Incarceration
21. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
Federal Court System
First Continental Congress
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Stare Decisis
22. When pleading guilty at a felony arrangement - what does the judge generally do for sentencing?
Preliminary Hearing
Tribal
The Family Model
Continue to another date
23. What does a mitigating factor make the report?
Preliminary Hearing
Better
Patrick Colquhoun
U.S. Federal District Courts
24. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Petition
Life
25. What does N.C.I.C. stand for?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Articles of Confederation
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
National Crime Information Center
26. What does a judge order the probation department to write in order to find more about an individual before sentencing?
Presentence Court Report
Right away
34
5th Amendment
27. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
Court Room Work Group
Statue of Winchester
1382
Boston Massacre
28. What was name of the era which was distinguished by the Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program?
Boston Massacre
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Community Orientated Policing Era
Judicial System = Institutional System
29. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?
14th Amendment
Sworn - Non-sworn
Nolo Contendre
John Augustus
30. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?
Hoover
John Marshall
Articles of Confederation
Original Jurisdiction
31. What is another term for informal probation?
Conditional Sentence
Discretion
Patrick Colquhoun
Articles of Confederation
32. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?
1 and 8
85%
Sir Robert Peel
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
33. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
Mary Ann Crouse
Local level
Loosely Coupled
Bench Trial
34. In what year and state was the country's first dedicated juvenile justice system and court legally established?
Information
1899 Illinois
Vigilantes
Bench Trial
35. What is a local law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Chief
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Crime Control Due Process
Own Recognizance
36. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
17 -500
Stamp Act of 1765
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
John Augustus
37. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?
Crime Control Due Process
State/Local Court System
90%
Broken Windows
38. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
Parens Patriae
Judiciary Act
Stare Decisis
90%
39. What current California legal code did the Law of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses contribute to?
Yes
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
The Penal Code
40. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
County
Trials
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Stars
41. What is a county law enforcement agency's head administrator?
830.1
Court Room Work Group
Sheriff
Broken Windows
42. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?
6th Amendment
Original Jurisdiction
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Change
43. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Mala en Se
Lower Courts
Court Room Work Group
44. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
Loosely Coupled
Arrangement
Attorney General
John Marshall
45. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?
1382
Mary Ann Crouse
Crime Control - Due Process
Possecomintatus
46. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?
4th Amendment
Yes
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
London Metropolitan Police Act
47. 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?
First Continental Congress
Change
Loosely Coupled
Makes deals and not go to trial
48. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
Stars
Stare Decisis
90 Million
1899 Illinois
49. How long is a federal judge's term of office for?
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Life
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
50. The average local law enforcement agency will often employ how many officers and serve what size population?
Worse
Marbury versus Madison
Court Administrator
50 - 25000