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Criminal Justice 101
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1. The Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program motivated police to try what new procedures?
90 Million
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Community Sensitive Programs
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
2. What English Common Law court system could arguably be seen as the world's first dedicated juvenile court?
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3. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?
Attorney General
Judiciary Act
State/Local Court System
U.S. Federal District Courts
4. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
Body - Amendments
6th Amendment
Vigilantes
King John
5. What concept attempts to alter future behaviors through threats of punishment and consequences?
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Deterrence
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
6. What was the name of the article which encouraged law enforcement not just to focus on crime - but the social factors of crime?
King Henry II
Generalists
Broken Windows
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
7. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?
Patrick Colquhoun
All volunteers
Preliminary Hearing
Courts
8. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?
The Family Model
Life
14
Serpico
9. What west coast supreme court case in 1876 further established the philosophy of Parens Patriae and no due process for juveniles?
Judicial Review
Petition
Ah Peen
John Augustus
10. How long is a federal judge's term of office for?
Life
All volunteers
17 -500
Superior Court
11. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?
State
90 Million
Trial
Hoover
12. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
Trial
Loosely Coupled System
Stare Decisis
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
13. How many states use the death penalty?
34
Boston Massacre
17 -500
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
14. If you plea guilty at a misdemeanor arraignment - when can a judge sentence you?
Nolo Contendre
Discretion
Ah Peen
Right away
15. What is an offense that consists of illegal conduct but no jail time?
Infraction
Patrick Colquhoun
Change
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
16. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
Generalists
Preliminary Hearing
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Yes
17. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
George Washington - John Adams
Community Sensitive Programs
Lower Courts
18. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?
Preliminary Hearing
17 -500
Possecomintatus
Discretion
19. What is a county law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Incorrigibles
Sheriff
Continue to another date
Due Process Phase
20. Negative political influence and corruption impacting 19th century U.S. police agencies was called what?
Patronage
Judicial/Legislative
Court Administrator
U.S. Constitution
21. What is the State Court System's court of last resort?
Dual System
State Supreme Court
Court Room Work Group
6th Amendment
22. What is meant by inferior courts?
Lower Courts
14
14
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
23. What is discovery?
1383
Evidence
State
Stare Decisis
24. What does a mitigating factor make the report?
Better
U.S. Federal District Courts
1899 Illinois
Adversarial System
25. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?
Court Administrator
U.S. Marshall's
Crime Control Due Process
Evidence
26. Which of the five major phases in the criminal justice system since 1965 produced major case law?
Local level
County
Possecomintatus
Due Process Phase
27. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
17 -500
Mala en Se
Right away
Nolo Contendre
28. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Formal Probation
Judicial - Executive
29. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
U.S. Court of Appeals
Crime Control Due Process
Loosely Coupled
30. What is the name for a felony complaint?
Information
Indeterminate Sentencing
State
U.S. Court of Appeals
31. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Government Attorney
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Petition
32. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?
Original Jurisdiction
Evaluation
Crime Control - Due Process
Deterrence
33. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
King John
Boston Massacre
Government Attorney
34. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
Special Police Force
Due Process Phase
All volunteers
Judicial - Executive
35. Under English Common Law what was the general cut off age in distinguishing between those who could charged with felonies?
14
39
Information
Assistant District Attorneys
36. What was the original staffing of the U.S. Supreme Court?
1899 Illinois
Retribution
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
37. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?
Patronage
85%
Very inactive
The Penal Code
38. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Loosely Coupled
Discretion
Possecomintatus
39. In which two locations did the actual shooting war begin between British soldiers and Colonial militia men?
Appeals
Lexington - Concord
Judicial Review
The Penal Code
40. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?
King Chamberlain's Court
85%
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Possecomintatus
41. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
5th Amendment
Chief
Judicial Review
Magna Carta
42. What two factors does a probation officer consider when writing the presentence report?
Worse
Aggravating - Mitigating
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Judiciary Act
43. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Very inactive
Judicial/Legislative
85%
44. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
Stare Decisis
Stamp Act of 1765
Hoover
Due Process
45. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
Precedent
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
1977 Dixon Bill
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
46. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
All volunteers
F.B.I.
47. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?
Continue to another date
1903
Marbury versus Madison
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
48. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1930?
Due Process Phase
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Preliminary Hearing
Arrangement
49. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?
Mala Prohibita
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Intermediate Courts
Special Police Force
50. What two things do military police entities possess?
Tribal
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
The Penal Code
Judicial System = Institutional System