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Criminal Justice 101
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1. Who said - 'The police are the public and the public are the police'?
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Sir Robert Peel
1383
Crime Control Due Process
2. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
Probation Officer
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Trial
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
3. What law enforcement agency maintains the largest training academy in the U.S.?
F.B.I.
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
None
90 Million
4. The B.I.A. and the F.B.I. often provide support and assistance to what level of law enforcement agencies?
U.S. Court of Appeals
Tribal
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Right away
5. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?
Felony
Mary Ann Crouse
Complaint
Worse
6. What Latin term means great paper?
Judicial/Legislative
Magna Carta
Nolo Contendre
Constitutional Law
7. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?
Patronage and Corruption
50 - 25000
Assistant District Attorneys
Possecomintatus
8. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
U.S. Marshall's
Indeterminate Sentencing
County
9. How is a jury panel selected?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Dual System
Habeas Corpus
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
10. The power of the U.S. Supreme Court to interpret what the constitution says and means - via case law - is known as what?
Judicial Review
Parens Patriae
Mala en Se
Broken Windows
11. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
Stare Decisis
Due Process
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
1383
12. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
14
Tribal
Articles of Confederation
Serpico
13. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Crime Control Due Process
Trial
8th Amendment
14. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
Sheriff or Shireeve
Judiciary Act
Deterrence
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
15. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
Original Jurisdiction
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Discretion
The Family Model
16. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Appeal
14
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
17. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Bill of Rights
Articles of Confederation
Loosely Coupled System
18. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?
$1.7 million
Judicial - Executive
Evaluation
Incapaciation
19. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
1977 Dixon Bill
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Loosely Coupled System
20. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
Mala Prohibita
Indeterminate Sentencing
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Probation Officer
21. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
Information
Special Police Force
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Habeas Corpus
22. How many states use the death penalty?
34
Miranda versus Arizona
Pretrial Hearing
English Common Law
23. The Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program motivated police to try what new procedures?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
1903
Community Sensitive Programs
State
24. The third federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
50 - 25000
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
U.S. Federal District Courts
Information
25. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?
Miranda versus Arizona
Boston Massacre
State
Better
26. The Federal Court system was created through what?
Judiciary Act
Stare Decisis
Serpico
8th Amendment
27. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Special Police Force
Complaint
Appeal
28. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
State
1382
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Secret Service
29. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
Generalists
Presentence Court Report
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Felony
30. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?
39
1977 Dixon Bill
English Common Law
State/Local Court System
31. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1987 as a supplement to UCRS?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Courts
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
32. What legal model first attempted the concept of rehabilitation and resocialization?
The Family Model
Appeals
Trial
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
33. What is the name for a juvenile complaint?
Complaint
The Penal Code
Petition
830.1
34. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
State
Incapaciation
Evaluation
Court Administrator
35. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?
Discretion
The Penal Code
Pretrial Hearing
Intermediate Courts
36. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?
Nolo Contendre
Stamp Act of 1765
State/Local Court System
1903
37. The three federal courts are known as what?
Hoover
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
State
38. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
Precedent
Stars
English Common Law
Hoover
39. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?
50 - 25000
Conditional Sentence
14th Amendment
Life
40. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
Sworn - Non-sworn
Sheriff
Misdemeanor
830.1
41. What west coast supreme court case in 1876 further established the philosophy of Parens Patriae and no due process for juveniles?
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Ah Peen
Indeterminate Sentencing
Very inactive
42. Which 1760s British tax law placed tax quotes on all paper based products imported into the colonies?
Ah Peen
Stamp Act of 1765
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Makes deals and not go to trial
43. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
Loosely Coupled System
Tribal
Mala Prohibita
Patronage and Corruption
44. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
Serpico
Discretion
Conditional Sentence
Indeterminate Sentencing
45. When court systems or levels disagree or question if rules are properly applied - what type of court is used?
50 - 25000
Miranda versus Arizona
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Appeals
46. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?
The Family Model
Original Jurisdiction
Change
Bench Trial
47. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Better
1903
Formal Probation
48. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?
Judicial - Executive
Generalists
Constitutional Law
Article III of the Constitution
49. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
U.S. Marshall's
Adversarial System
Habeas Corpus
50. What is a county law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Broken Windows
1 and 8
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Sheriff