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Criminal Justice 101
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1. The Federal Court system was created through what?
17
Courts
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Judiciary Act
2. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?
Community Sensitive Programs
Boston Massacre
Loosely Coupled System
Pretrial Hearing
3. What two factors does a probation officer consider when writing the presentence report?
Information
$1.7 million
14th Amendment
Aggravating - Mitigating
4. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
1382
Complaint
Stars
State Supreme Court
5. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?
4th Amendment
Chief
Local level
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
6. What are the two types of defense attorneys?
County
Formal Probation
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Judicial/Legislative
7. Who is referred to as the father of probation?
Judiciary Act
14
85%
John Augustus
8. What is discovery?
Deterrence
John Marshall
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Evidence
9. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?
Judiciary Act
Intermediate Courts
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
$1.7 million
10. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?
U.S. Court of Appeals
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Continue to another date
Constitutional Law
11. What was the name of the article which encouraged law enforcement not just to focus on crime - but the social factors of crime?
Presentence Court Report
Government Attorney
Makes deals and not go to trial
Broken Windows
12. What 1865 federal law enforcement agency was initially responsible for excessive counterfeiting following the civil war?
Patrick Colquhoun
Sir Robert Peel
Secret Service
Possecomintatus
13. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
Patronage
King John
Formal Probation
Probation Officer
14. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
None
English Common Law
Crime Control Due Process
Body - Amendments
15. What type of bodies do our current laws come from?
Felony
Judicial/Legislative
Bill of Rights
Probation Officer
16. How is a jury panel selected?
Statue of Winchester
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Aggravating - Mitigating
14th Amendment
17. What west coast supreme court case in 1876 further established the philosophy of Parens Patriae and no due process for juveniles?
Ah Peen
Sheriff or Shireeve
Courts
Court Administrator
18. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?
Formal Probation
Due Process Phase
Original Jurisdiction
Right away
19. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
Stamp Act of 1765
Makes deals and not go to trial
State
Judicial - Executive
20. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
34
Miranda versus Arizona
830.1
Special Police Force
21. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
14
Sir Robert Peel
Life
22. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
State Supreme Court
1383
Nolo Contendre
All volunteers
23. What is a local law enforcement agency's head administrator?
F.B.I
John Augustus
Chief
U.S. Marshall's
24. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?
Incorrigibles
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Discretion
Loosely Coupled
25. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
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17 -500
U.S. Constitution
1977 Dixon Bill
26. What are the two ancient codes that contributed to our current legal system?
Hoover
Sheriff
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Loosely Coupled
27. What Latin term means great paper?
State/Local Court System
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Magna Carta
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
28. What legal model first attempted the concept of rehabilitation and resocialization?
County
Community Sensitive Programs
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
The Family Model
29. What 1770 shooting incident heightened tensions between Boston colonists and newly arrived British soldiers?
Presentence Court Report
Judicial - Executive
Probation Officer
Boston Massacre
30. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?
Federal Court System
Evidence
John Marshall
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
31. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
F.B.I.
Appeals
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
5th Amendment
32. What was name of the era which was distinguished by the Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
The Family Model
Community Orientated Policing Era
Stare Decisis
33. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?
Lexington - Concord
Tribal
Evaluation
Hoover
34. When pleading guilty at a felony arrangement - what does the judge generally do for sentencing?
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Discretion
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35. What does a preliminary hearing determine?
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Superior Court
Better
Appeal
36. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Mala en Se
Judicial - Executive
Probation Officer
County
37. What English Common Law court system could arguably be seen as the world's first dedicated juvenile court?
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38. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
Broken Windows
King Henry II
Mala Prohibita
90 Million
39. Jail time - restitution - contact restrictions - drug testing - searches and seizures - employment verification - and counseling can be terms of what?
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Own Recognizance
Formal Probation
John Augustus
40. What is the State Court System's court of last resort?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
State Supreme Court
John Augustus
41. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
Stamp Act of 1765
Generalists
F.B.I
State Supreme Court
42. What current California legal code did the Law of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses contribute to?
Court Administrator
Mala en Se
Sir Robert Peel
The Penal Code
43. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Judiciary Act
State Supreme Court
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
44. Generally speaking - what type of attorney is a prosecuting attorney?
Government Attorney
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
None
Original Jurisdiction
45. What are the four Cs of the criminal justice system?
Formal Probation
Hoover
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Articles of Confederation
46. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
Indeterminate Sentencing
Vigilantes
Conditional Sentence
Patronage
47. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
$1.7 million
1382
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
48. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?
Stare Decisis
Better
Discretion
Lower Courts
49. In 1789 which London magistrate stressed the need for a 'centralized' law enforcement agency?
1 and 8
Miranda versus Arizona
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Patrick Colquhoun
50. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?
Possecomintatus
Sir Robert Peel
Information
Crime Control - Due Process