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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What are the oldest law enforcement agencies in the country?
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2. What is discovery?
Evidence
Marbury versus Madison
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Worse
3. What Penal Code section states that the court may refer to probation for a report?
Assistant District Attorneys
Local level
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Statue of Winchester
4. What two factors does a probation officer consider when writing the presentence report?
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
State
Articles of Confederation
Aggravating - Mitigating
5. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
Bench Trial
Vigilantes
Mala Prohibita
Patrick Colquhoun
6. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?
Bench Trial
Articles of Confederation
Infraction
Evaluation
7. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?
Statue of Winchester
Very inactive
Pendelton Act
Due Process Phase
8. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Life
Constitutional Law
Presentence Court Report
9. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
Loosely Coupled System
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
John Augustus
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
10. What concepts attempts to protect society by isolating others?
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Potential for Incarceration
Incapaciation
11. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
Judicial/Legislative
Vigilantes
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
12. What Latin term means - 'father or parent of the country?'
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
The Family Model
Possecomintatus
Parens Patriae
13. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Nolo Contendre
Presentence Court Report
14. Jail time - restitution - contact restrictions - drug testing - searches and seizures - employment verification - and counseling can be terms of what?
90%
Judiciary Act
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Formal Probation
15. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Habeas Corpus
Bench Trial
Retribution
16. What do bills of attainer relate to?
Punishment without trial
1899 Illinois
Crime Control - Due Process
Jurisdiction
17. What do the majority of cases going into the U.S. District Court involve?
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
State
Evaluation
Mary Ann Crouse
18. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
All volunteers
Habeas Corpus
Change
Limited
19. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?
Constitutional Law
1 and 8
State Supreme Court
Better
20. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?
John Augustus
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Adversarial System
County
21. What is meant by inferior courts?
Lower Courts
1382
14
Magna Carta
22. Generally speaking - what type of attorney is a prosecuting attorney?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Government Attorney
Sir Robert Peel
Judicial Review
23. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1930?
34
Chief
Worse
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
24. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
17
Right away
Tribal
25. Other then UCRS and NIBRS - what entities compile information about crime in the country?
Stars
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Yes
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
26. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
Continue to another date
Community Orientated Policing Era
1899 Illinois
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
27. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Limited
28. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
State
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
29. What type of bodies do our current laws come from?
Stars
Judicial/Legislative
Mala en Se
4th Amendment
30. Who runs the N.C.I.C.?
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
F.B.I
Better
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
31. Both felonies are misdemeanors are first filed as what?
Pretrial Hearing
Judicial - Executive
Court Room Work Group
Complaint
32. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
Limited
5th Amendment
Broken Windows
Judicial - Executive
33. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
F.B.I.
Statue of Winchester
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Infraction
34. What are the two ancient codes that contributed to our current legal system?
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
85%
Judicial - Executive
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
35. What is a local law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Chief
London Metropolitan Police Act
Mala Prohibita
36. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
Lower Courts
John Augustus
F.B.I.
1977 Dixon Bill
37. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
Articles of Confederation
Superior Court
County
1383
38. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
F.B.I.
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
39. Is the Federal or State court system older?
State
1977 Dixon Bill
Punishment without trial
Felony
40. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?
Ah Peen
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Vigilantes
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
41. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?
Stamp Act of 1765
Stare Decisis
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
5th Amendment
42. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?
Stare Decisis
Habeas Corpus
Sheriff or Shireeve
Loosely Coupled
43. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Court Room Work Group
Possecomintatus
U.S. Marshall's
44. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
90 Million
Judiciary Act
King Henry II
Federal Court System
45. What major 1803 U.S. Supreme Court case established that the court would begin to interpret what the constitution was all about?
Marbury versus Madison
All volunteers
Vigilantes
F.B.I.
46. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?
Patronage
King Henry II
1 and 8
Body - Amendments
47. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
Federal Court System
1899 Illinois
Misdemeanor
Body - Amendments
48. The B.I.A. and the F.B.I. often provide support and assistance to what level of law enforcement agencies?
Courts
Serpico
Tribal
Chief
49. Negative political influence and corruption impacting 19th century U.S. police agencies was called what?
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Patronage
King John
Evidence
50. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
Loosely Coupled System
F.B.I.
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
1977 Dixon Bill