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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
1382
14th Amendment
1899 Illinois
2. When court systems or levels disagree or question if rules are properly applied - what type of court is used?
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Local level
Indeterminate Sentencing
Appeals
3. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?
1903
Continue to another date
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
4. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?
State/Local Court System
1903
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Lower Courts
5. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
Lexington - Concord
First Continental Congress
Habeas Corpus
Adversarial System
6. Does a county law enforcement agency head administrator generally require law enforcement experience?
Aggravating - Mitigating
Loosely Coupled
8th Amendment
Yes
7. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?
Discretion
Patronage
1383
Jurisdiction
8. What are the oldest law enforcement agencies in the country?
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9. What law enforcement agency maintains the largest training academy in the U.S.?
F.B.I.
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Community Orientated Policing Era
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
10. Where does a felony case begin?
Probation Officer
Due Process
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Constitutional Law
11. What is the average budget of a local law enforcement agency?
Attorney General
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
State
$1.7 million
12. What type of bodies do our current laws come from?
Worse
All volunteers
Crime Control Due Process
Judicial/Legislative
13. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
Stare Decisis
Assistant District Attorneys
U.S. Court of Appeals
17 -500
14. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
Bill of Rights
1383
Adversarial System
Complaint
15. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?
Future laws not passed yet
Due Process
Trials
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
16. How long is a federal judge's term of office for?
Mary Ann Crouse
Patronage and Corruption
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Life
17. What 1883 federal law stressed the need for a civil service system based upon merit?
F.B.I.
1977 Dixon Bill
Pendelton Act
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
18. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?
Appeal
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Body - Amendments
Intermediate Courts
19. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?
Article III of the Constitution
F.B.I.
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Federal Court System
20. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
1383
Life
Constitutional Law
21. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?
Sheriff or Shireeve
Makes deals and not go to trial
Parens Patriae
Prison Time - Death Sentence
22. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?
Crime Control - Due Process
Potential for Incarceration
17 -500
8th Amendment
23. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
Tribal
1977 Dixon Bill
Ah Peen
Loosely Coupled System
24. What west coast supreme court case in 1876 further established the philosophy of Parens Patriae and no due process for juveniles?
State
Ah Peen
Attorney General
Dual System
25. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
Discretion
Conditional Sentence
Lower Courts
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
26. What is a local law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Lower Courts
Chief
14
Jurisdiction
27. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
Discretion
Misdemeanor
State
4th Amendment
28. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Sir Robert Peel
Statue of Winchester
Prison Time - Death Sentence
29. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?
Habeas Corpus
Incapaciation
King John
17
30. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
F.B.I.
State
Hoover
31. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?
1 and 8
Felony
Parens Patriae
1903
32. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?
Judicial Review
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Dual System
Hoover
33. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
Loosely Coupled System
Statue of Winchester
1899 Illinois
Due Process
34. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Mary Ann Crouse
Judicial - Executive
39
35. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
Nolo Contendre
Secret Service
All volunteers
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
36. What is meant by inferior courts?
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Judicial System = Institutional System
Lower Courts
Discretion
37. What two things do military police entities possess?
Judicial System = Institutional System
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
National Crime Information Center
38. What 1838 Ohio State Supreme Court Case established the concept of Parens Patriae and no need for due process in juvenile matters?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Incorrigibles
Retribution
Mary Ann Crouse
39. What English Common Law court system could arguably be seen as the world's first dedicated juvenile court?
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40. What is the Latin term that means evil or bad in itself?
Mala Prohibita
Pendelton Act
Mala en Se
Bill of Rights
41. Jail time - restitution - contact restrictions - drug testing - searches and seizures - employment verification - and counseling can be terms of what?
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Formal Probation
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
34
42. What does ex-post facto law relate to?
State Supreme Court
8th Amendment
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Future laws not passed yet
43. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Incorrigibles
Patrick Colquhoun
Indeterminate Sentencing
44. What does a judge order the probation department to write in order to find more about an individual before sentencing?
Presentence Court Report
Lower Courts
Judicial System = Institutional System
Continue to another date
45. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
Loosely Coupled System
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Discretion
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
46. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?
Judicial/Legislative
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
5th Amendment
47. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1930?
All volunteers
14
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
1383
48. Other then UCRS and NIBRS - what entities compile information about crime in the country?
Broken Windows
Incapaciation
Local level
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
49. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
Potential for Incarceration
Preliminary Hearing
Judicial System = Institutional System
Original Jurisdiction
50. What Latin term means - 'father or parent of the country?'
Parens Patriae
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Generalists
Limited