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Criminal Justice 101
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?
County
Bill of Rights
Mala en Se
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
2. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
90 Million
Crime Control - Due Process
All volunteers
Miranda versus Arizona
3. Who said - 'The police are the public and the public are the police'?
Potential for Incarceration
Sir Robert Peel
Dual System
Precedent
4. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
Bill of Rights
Vigilantes
1383
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
5. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
Loosely Coupled
Body - Amendments
$1.7 million
Due Process
6. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1930?
Article III of the Constitution
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Sworn - Non-sworn
7. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
90 Million
Habeas Corpus
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
8. In what year and state was the country's first dedicated juvenile justice system and court legally established?
17
50 - 25000
Adversarial System
1899 Illinois
9. What are the two main functions of criminal courts?
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10. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?
Change
Court Administrator
Bill of Rights
Court Room Work Group
11. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?
U.S. Federal District Courts
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Sheriff or Shireeve
4th Amendment
12. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
Mala Prohibita
Probation Officer
Judicial Review
Felony
13. What is an offense that consists of illegal conduct but no jail time?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Infraction
Appeal
Trials
14. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
Hoover
Mala Prohibita
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Misdemeanor
15. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
Right away
The Family Model
State
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
16. What was name of the era which was distinguished by the Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program?
Community Orientated Policing Era
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Hoover
Judiciary Act
17. What two factors does a probation officer consider when writing the presentence report?
Life
Attorney General
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Aggravating - Mitigating
18. Is the Federal or State court system older?
State
90 Million
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
4th Amendment
19. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?
U.S. Federal District Courts
Intermediate Courts
John Augustus
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
20. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?
Retribution
Infraction
17 -500
English Common Law
21. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
Secret Service
Aggravating - Mitigating
Limited
14
22. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Stare Decisis
King John
23. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
Sir Robert Peel
F.B.I.
Retribution
Special Police Force
24. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?
Trials
U.S. Constitution
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
State/Local Court System
25. What concept attempts to alter future behaviors through threats of punishment and consequences?
Deterrence
None
1977 Dixon Bill
Patrick Colquhoun
26. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?
All volunteers
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Broken Windows
Crime Control Due Process
27. What are the two types of defense attorneys?
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
830.1
George Washington - John Adams
28. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?
Superior Court
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Marbury versus Madison
Lexington - Concord
29. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
None
1903
Pendelton Act
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
30. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
Bench Trial
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Chief
Article III of the Constitution
31. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?
Due Process
State Supreme Court
Appeal
14
32. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
U.S. Postal Inspectors
State
Mala Prohibita
33. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?
Superior Court
17 -500
Mala Prohibita
Statue of Winchester
34. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?
17
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
State
Possecomintatus
35. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?
Sir Robert Peel
State Supreme Court
Patronage and Corruption
Community Orientated Policing Era
36. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?
Preliminary Hearing
Nolo Contendre
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Discretion
37. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
Tribal
90%
Loosely Coupled System
Very inactive
38. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Sheriff
Judicial - Executive
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
King Chamberlain's Court
39. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?
Tribal
Makes deals and not go to trial
Discretion
8th Amendment
40. What are the oldest law enforcement agencies in the country?
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41. What was the original staffing of the U.S. Supreme Court?
State Supreme Court
Bill of Rights
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Better
42. How many states use the death penalty?
34
Stars
County
Possecomintatus
43. Which of the five major phases in the criminal justice system since 1965 produced major case law?
Due Process Phase
Life
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
44. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?
F.B.I.
Superior Court
17 -500
Lexington - Concord
45. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
14
Local level
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
1382
46. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
Limited
State
Preliminary Hearing
1203(b)(1) - Felony
47. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
F.B.I
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Boston Massacre
48. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?
Discretion
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Indeterminate Sentencing
Jurisdiction
49. What were minors who disobeyed orders of the Kings Chancery Court system called?
U.S. Federal District Courts
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Judiciary Act
Incorrigibles
50. When court systems or levels disagree or question if rules are properly applied - what type of court is used?
Misdemeanor
Appeals
Statue of Winchester
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections