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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
State
Discretion
Federal Court System
Bill of Rights
2. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?
King Henry II
1 and 8
Crime Control Due Process
F.B.I
3. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
Habeas Corpus
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Federal Court System
U.S. Marshall's
4. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?
Adversarial System
Evaluation
Mary Ann Crouse
Adversarial System
5. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?
39
Right away
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Appeal
6. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
County
F.B.I
Preliminary Hearing
Bill of Rights
7. What is a county law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Sheriff
Marbury versus Madison
Right away
14
8. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Aggravating - Mitigating
Mala Prohibita
9. What are the four Cs of the criminal justice system?
Judiciary Act
85%
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
10. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Lower Courts
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
All volunteers
11. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?
Discretion
None
English Common Law
Tribal
12. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
90 Million
Local level
Probation Officer
Possecomintatus
13. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
17 -500
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Mary Ann Crouse
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
14. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?
Felony
Limited
Judiciary Act
Court Room Work Group
15. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?
Community Orientated Policing Era
4th Amendment
Adversarial System
Bill of Rights
16. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?
Courts
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Limited
All volunteers
17. What concept attempts to alter future behaviors through threats of punishment and consequences?
Deterrence
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Arrangement
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
18. What do the majority of cases going into the U.S. District Court involve?
Lexington - Concord
U.S. Federal District Courts
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Discretion
19. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?
14th Amendment
Continue to another date
Tribal
1899 Illinois
20. What major 1829 English law created a centralized urban police force in London?
Crime Control Due Process
Stare Decisis
14
London Metropolitan Police Act
21. What was the original staffing of the U.S. Supreme Court?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
County
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Limited
22. Which 1760s British tax law placed tax quotes on all paper based products imported into the colonies?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Stamp Act of 1765
National Crime Information Center
All volunteers
23. What west coast supreme court case in 1876 further established the philosophy of Parens Patriae and no due process for juveniles?
Sheriff
Incorrigibles
Boston Massacre
Ah Peen
24. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?
King Henry II
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
London Metropolitan Police Act
25. What was name of the era which was distinguished by the Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program?
Sheriff or Shireeve
Community Orientated Policing Era
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Due Process
26. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
Very inactive
Attorney General
Local level
Misdemeanor
27. What legal model first attempted the concept of rehabilitation and resocialization?
Parens Patriae
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
The Family Model
Preliminary Hearing
28. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Serpico
Federal Court System
Appeal
29. Who were the country's first president and vice president?
14th Amendment
George Washington - John Adams
Broken Windows
Vigilantes
30. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
Potential for Incarceration
State
King John
Constitutional Law
31. What is the name for a felony complaint?
39
Information
50 - 25000
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
32. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
Special Police Force
Indeterminate Sentencing
85%
830.1
33. Local California courts which handle misdemeanors - minor civil matters - and traffic violations are called what?
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
14
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
5th Amendment
34. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
Change
Pretrial Hearing
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
17 -500
35. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?
Incorrigibles
39
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
36. Who is referred to as the father of probation?
County
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
First Continental Congress
John Augustus
37. What 1865 federal law enforcement agency was initially responsible for excessive counterfeiting following the civil war?
U.S. Marshall's
Secret Service
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Discretion
38. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?
Formal Probation
Punishment without trial
Lower Courts
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
39. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Worse
None
Incapaciation
40. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Superior Court
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
41. What is discovery?
1977 Dixon Bill
State/Local Court System
Evidence
Original Jurisdiction
42. After the U.S. Constitution was ratified - what type of court system did the U.S. realize it needed to have?
Federal Court System
Yes
17 -500
830.1
43. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
Superior Court
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
6th Amendment
1383
44. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1987 as a supplement to UCRS?
14
17 -500
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
F.B.I.
45. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
The Family Model
90 Million
Loosely Coupled
46. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?
Presentence Court Report
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Appeals
Body - Amendments
47. What concept discusses 'an eye for an eye'?
Tribal
Retribution
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
All volunteers
48. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?
Crime Control Due Process
Loosely Coupled
1903
Marbury versus Madison
49. The Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program motivated police to try what new procedures?
Stamp Act of 1765
Trials
Community Sensitive Programs
Possecomintatus
50. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
Court Administrator
F.B.I
Limited
Incorrigibles
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