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Criminal Justice 101
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Judicial/Legislative
6th Amendment
Dual System
2. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
Bench Trial
Statue of Winchester
Adversarial System
Judicial System = Institutional System
3. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
Judiciary Act
Possecomintatus
17 -500
Vigilantes
4. What federal law enforcement agency delegated peace officer powers to citizens during the era of the wild west?
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5. Other then UCRS and NIBRS - what entities compile information about crime in the country?
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
90%
John Marshall
6. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
Potential for Incarceration
8th Amendment
Intermediate Courts
King Chamberlain's Court
7. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Retribution
Vigilantes
Articles of Confederation
8. The Federal Court system was created through what?
Due Process Phase
Formal Probation
Petition
Judiciary Act
9. In which two locations did the actual shooting war begin between British soldiers and Colonial militia men?
Petition
Misdemeanor
Lexington - Concord
Better
10. What Latin term means great paper?
Presentence Court Report
Magna Carta
County
Deterrence
11. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
F.B.I.
90 Million
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Sir Robert Peel
12. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?
90 Million
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
English Common Law
13. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
U.S. Postal Inspectors
National Crime Information Center
90%
Tribal
14. What Latin term means - 'father or parent of the country?'
1977 Dixon Bill
Parens Patriae
Government Attorney
8th Amendment
15. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
Articles of Confederation
County
Lower Courts
Limited
16. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
Limited
5th Amendment
Stamp Act of 1765
Complaint
17. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Judicial - Executive
Hoover
830.1
English Common Law
18. What does an aggravating factor make the report?
Very inactive
National Crime Information Center
Worse
Federal Court System
19. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?
Patronage and Corruption
14th Amendment
Ah Peen
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
20. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?
Adversarial System
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Life
Jurisdiction
21. What is the name for a juvenile complaint?
Deterrence
John Marshall
Petition
Hoover
22. Which of the five major phases in the criminal justice system since 1965 produced major case law?
Original Jurisdiction
4th Amendment
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Due Process Phase
23. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?
Judicial Review
Court Administrator
Bench Trial
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
24. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?
Local level
Adversarial System
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
17 -500
25. The average local law enforcement agency will often employ how many officers and serve what size population?
London Metropolitan Police Act
Intermediate Courts
County
50 - 25000
26. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
1903
1383
Deterrence
Loosely Coupled
27. The third federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
U.S. Federal District Courts
Preliminary Hearing
Aggravating - Mitigating
Pendelton Act
28. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?
Stars
5th Amendment
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
17
29. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
U.S. Constitution
Potential for Incarceration
Discretion
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
30. The three federal courts are known as what?
1 and 8
State
Tribal
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
31. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?
Precedent
Right away
State Supreme Court
Original Jurisdiction
32. What does O.R. mean?
Chief
Own Recognizance
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Discretion
33. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?
Stamp Act of 1765
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
U.S. Constitution
Deterrence
34. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
King Chamberlain's Court
Judicial Review
U.S. Court of Appeals
8th Amendment
35. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?
14
Judicial - Executive
34
The Penal Code
36. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
London Metropolitan Police Act
830.1
Sheriff or Shireeve
14
37. What was the name of the article which encouraged law enforcement not just to focus on crime - but the social factors of crime?
Court Room Work Group
State
State
Broken Windows
38. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?
Trial
Patrick Colquhoun
Vigilantes
Generalists
39. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
Felony
Vigilantes
Loosely Coupled System
Preliminary Hearing
40. Which 1760s British tax law placed tax quotes on all paper based products imported into the colonies?
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1977 Dixon Bill
Presentence Court Report
Stamp Act of 1765
41. What concepts attempts to protect society by isolating others?
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Incapaciation
Indeterminate Sentencing
5th Amendment
42. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Nolo Contendre
State
43. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?
Evaluation
None
Pretrial Hearing
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
44. The B.I.A. and the F.B.I. often provide support and assistance to what level of law enforcement agencies?
Tribal
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Magna Carta
45. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
English Common Law
Adversarial System
Better
Vigilantes
46. Who is in charge of staffing - calender - budget - and other material needs of the court room?
Court Administrator
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Aggravating - Mitigating
Tribal
47. How many states use the death penalty?
F.B.I.
All volunteers
Very inactive
34
48. What type of bodies do our current laws come from?
Judicial/Legislative
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
U.S. Constitution
Stare Decisis
49. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Miranda versus Arizona
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17 -500
50. Does a county law enforcement agency head administrator generally require law enforcement experience?
Sworn - Non-sworn
Community Orientated Policing Era
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Yes