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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What does N.C.I.C. stand for?
Trial
Punishment without trial
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
National Crime Information Center
2. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
Patronage
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Sir Robert Peel
Magna Carta
3. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?
Mary Ann Crouse
English Common Law
1 and 8
Stare Decisis
4. What is the name for a juvenile complaint?
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Petition
Vigilantes
King Henry II
5. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
Secret Service
U.S. Court of Appeals
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
6. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?
Bill of Rights
34
Discretion
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
7. In what year and state was the country's first dedicated juvenile justice system and court legally established?
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
U.S. Court of Appeals
1899 Illinois
Trials
8. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?
King John
Crime Control Due Process
Judicial System = Institutional System
Evidence
9. 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
Trial
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
King Henry II
10. What major 1829 English law created a centralized urban police force in London?
1977 Dixon Bill
830.1
John Marshall
London Metropolitan Police Act
11. What are the oldest law enforcement agencies in the country?
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12. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?
Potential for Incarceration
1 and 8
John Marshall
Discretion
13. What type of bodies do our current laws come from?
Community Orientated Policing Era
F.B.I
Judicial/Legislative
State
14. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
Local level
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
85%
34
15. What 1883 federal law stressed the need for a civil service system based upon merit?
Pretrial Hearing
Pendelton Act
Constitutional Law
Chief
16. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
Habeas Corpus
Life
Retribution
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
17. What does a preliminary hearing determine?
State
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
The Penal Code
Precedent
18. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Crime Control Due Process
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
F.B.I.
19. What legal model first attempted the concept of rehabilitation and resocialization?
The Family Model
39
Arrangement
1382
20. Does a county law enforcement agency head administrator generally require law enforcement experience?
Judiciary Act
Yes
Serpico
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
21. What was the name of the article which encouraged law enforcement not just to focus on crime - but the social factors of crime?
English Common Law
Habeas Corpus
Broken Windows
Tribal
22. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?
Mala Prohibita
Hoover
Potential for Incarceration
Pretrial Hearing
23. Who is referred to as the father of probation?
John Augustus
Discretion
Statue of Winchester
Due Process Phase
24. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Judicial - Executive
Loosely Coupled
Pendelton Act
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
25. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Mary Ann Crouse
90 Million
26. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?
Patronage and Corruption
6th Amendment
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Courts
27. Who is in charge of staffing - calender - budget - and other material needs of the court room?
Makes deals and not go to trial
U.S. Constitution
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Court Administrator
28. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
4th Amendment
85%
1899 Illinois
Sworn - Non-sworn
29. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
5th Amendment
County
Attorney General
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
30. What does an aggravating factor make the report?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Worse
London Metropolitan Police Act
Special Police Force
31. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?
Courts
50 - 25000
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Makes deals and not go to trial
32. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
8th Amendment
Discretion
90%
Tribal
33. What is the main criteria which determines whether a mater goes to a federal or state court?
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Intermediate Courts
National Crime Information Center
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
34. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?
Probation Officer
Broken Windows
39
Vigilantes
35. The Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program motivated police to try what new procedures?
Superior Court
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Community Sensitive Programs
Better
36. What concepts attempts to protect society by isolating others?
Pretrial Hearing
Arrangement
Incapaciation
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
37. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?
Infraction
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Possecomintatus
38. If you plea guilty at a misdemeanor arraignment - when can a judge sentence you?
John Marshall
Judicial System = Institutional System
Parens Patriae
Right away
39. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
8th Amendment
Hoover
National Crime Information Center
830.1
40. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
George Washington - John Adams
50 - 25000
Habeas Corpus
None
41. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
Pendelton Act
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
State Supreme Court
Continue to another date
42. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
All volunteers
Punishment without trial
Loosely Coupled System
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
43. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?
Original Jurisdiction
Assistant District Attorneys
1903
$1.7 million
44. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
Generalists
Bench Trial
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
1899 Illinois
45. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Possecomintatus
46. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?
State
Pretrial Hearing
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Very inactive
47. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
1383
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Indeterminate Sentencing
Preliminary Hearing
48. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?
Crime Control Due Process
17 -500
14
14th Amendment
49. How many states use the death penalty?
34
State
F.B.I.
5th Amendment
50. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
Bench Trial
Loosely Coupled
Preliminary Hearing
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
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