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Criminal Justice 101
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?
U.S. Marshall's
Precedent
Felony
Discretion
2. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?
Adversarial System
F.B.I.
Discretion
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
3. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
14
Adversarial System
Serpico
4. What was the original staffing of the U.S. Supreme Court?
Chief
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Intermediate Courts
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
5. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
4th Amendment
85%
Trial
Life
6. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1930?
Conditional Sentence
Incapaciation
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Very inactive
7. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
Adversarial System
Community Sensitive Programs
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
14
8. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?
Constitutional Law
Worse
State
1 and 8
9. What law enforcement agency maintains the largest training academy in the U.S.?
Change
Probation Officer
F.B.I.
Community Sensitive Programs
10. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
Incapaciation
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Better
Attorney General
11. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?
Statue of Winchester
1903
Intermediate Courts
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
12. What is the name for a juvenile complaint?
Better
Petition
The Family Model
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
13. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?
Sheriff
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Change
14. The third federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
Broken Windows
Sir Robert Peel
U.S. Federal District Courts
Miranda versus Arizona
15. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?
$1.7 million
Stare Decisis
Chief
State
16. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?
1977 Dixon Bill
Tribal
Possecomintatus
English Common Law
17. What does a mitigating factor make the report?
Better
Worse
Original Jurisdiction
F.B.I.
18. Is the Federal or State court system older?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
1903
State
Magna Carta
19. During the Revolutionary War what major document helped to guide the colonies in fighting their war against Britain?
Articles of Confederation
Superior Court
1383
Trials
20. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?
Incapaciation
Yes
State/Local Court System
Incorrigibles
21. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?
90%
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
County
1383
22. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Nolo Contendre
Sworn - Non-sworn
State
23. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?
King John
Lower Courts
Preliminary Hearing
14
24. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
Change
14
Statue of Winchester
1977 Dixon Bill
25. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Trials
Own Recognizance
Misdemeanor
26. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
Loosely Coupled
Future laws not passed yet
Constitutional Law
Discretion
27. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Vigilantes
Evaluation
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
28. What is a county law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Possecomintatus
National Crime Information Center
U.S. Federal District Courts
Sheriff
29. Jail time - restitution - contact restrictions - drug testing - searches and seizures - employment verification - and counseling can be terms of what?
Appeals
English Common Law
Formal Probation
Judiciary Act
30. What are the five levels of force among agencies?
U.S. Constitution
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Bench Trial
U.S. Court of Appeals
31. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?
Life
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Appeals
Adversarial System
32. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?
17
Dual System
Lexington - Concord
6th Amendment
33. What is an offense that consists of illegal conduct but no jail time?
Infraction
Chief
1899 Illinois
Loosely Coupled System
34. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?
Government Attorney
Potential for Incarceration
5th Amendment
Pretrial Hearing
35. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
830.1
Preliminary Hearing
Mala en Se
36. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
U.S. Court of Appeals
Special Police Force
Lower Courts
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
37. What is meant by inferior courts?
Parens Patriae
County
Dual System
Lower Courts
38. What Penal Code section states that the court may refer to probation for a report?
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Indeterminate Sentencing
Felony
39. What is the State Court System's court of last resort?
Probation Officer
Appeal
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
State Supreme Court
40. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?
U.S. Postal Inspectors
F.B.I
Articles of Confederation
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
41. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
F.B.I
None
Original Jurisdiction
42. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Loosely Coupled
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
43. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?
Life
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Very inactive
44. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
Attorney General
17 -500
4th Amendment
Stare Decisis
45. In which two locations did the actual shooting war begin between British soldiers and Colonial militia men?
Stare Decisis
F.B.I
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Lexington - Concord
46. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
Body - Amendments
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Information
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
47. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?
Discretion
Original Jurisdiction
Appeals
Arrangement
48. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?
Appeal
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
34
George Washington - John Adams
49. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
Sworn - Non-sworn
Patronage and Corruption
Preliminary Hearing
First Continental Congress
50. What were minors who disobeyed orders of the Kings Chancery Court system called?
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Discretion
90 Million
Incorrigibles