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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?
Court Administrator
Patronage and Corruption
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Mary Ann Crouse
2. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
Limited
Lexington - Concord
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Loosely Coupled System
3. What does an aggravating factor make the report?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
14
Worse
17 -500
4. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?
All volunteers
Magna Carta
Original Jurisdiction
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
5. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?
Limited
Sheriff or Shireeve
17
Right away
6. What is a local law enforcement agency's head administrator?
State
Misdemeanor
Chief
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
7. What is meant by inferior courts?
Lower Courts
Intermediate Courts
50 - 25000
14
8. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?
Appeals
Aggravating - Mitigating
Constitutional Law
Original Jurisdiction
9. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?
1382
Superior Court
Patronage and Corruption
17 -500
10. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?
Complaint
County
John Augustus
Very inactive
11. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
Judiciary Act
14th Amendment
King John
Very inactive
12. What is the main criteria which determines whether a mater goes to a federal or state court?
Magna Carta
Potential for Incarceration
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
17 -500
13. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?
Hoover
Future laws not passed yet
Judicial System = Institutional System
Sir Robert Peel
14. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
John Marshall
Loosely Coupled
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
15. What 1883 federal law stressed the need for a civil service system based upon merit?
Appeals
Pendelton Act
Attorney General
Lower Courts
16. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Better
U.S. Court of Appeals
Appeals
17. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
Due Process
34
Stars
$1.7 million
18. What does O.R. mean?
Makes deals and not go to trial
Sir Robert Peel
Own Recognizance
Government Attorney
19. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
Government Attorney
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Preliminary Hearing
Vigilantes
20. What Penal Code section states that the court shall refer to probation for a report?
Community Orientated Policing Era
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
21. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?
U.S. Constitution
State/Local Court System
90%
Pendelton Act
22. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
Bench Trial
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Evaluation
Superior Court
23. What Latin term means - 'father or parent of the country?'
Parens Patriae
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Boston Massacre
24. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
Pretrial Hearing
Community Orientated Policing Era
The Penal Code
Probation Officer
25. What major 1803 U.S. Supreme Court case established that the court would begin to interpret what the constitution was all about?
Pendelton Act
State
85%
Marbury versus Madison
26. What 1838 Ohio State Supreme Court Case established the concept of Parens Patriae and no need for due process in juvenile matters?
Future laws not passed yet
John Augustus
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Mary Ann Crouse
27. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?
Government Attorney
Hoover
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Special Police Force
28. How is a jury panel selected?
90%
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
29. In 1789 which London magistrate stressed the need for a 'centralized' law enforcement agency?
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Special Police Force
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Patrick Colquhoun
30. The B.I.A. and the F.B.I. often provide support and assistance to what level of law enforcement agencies?
Incapaciation
Tribal
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Local level
31. When pleading guilty at a felony arrangement - what does the judge generally do for sentencing?
Continue to another date
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
90%
Jurisdiction
32. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
Life
Discretion
Boston Massacre
King Henry II
33. What is the average budget of a local law enforcement agency?
Sheriff
17
$1.7 million
Vigilantes
34. In 1829 which English government employee pushed a new law which followed the ideas of Patrick Colquhoun?
Sir Robert Peel
Judicial System = Institutional System
County
Incorrigibles
35. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?
Tribal
Evidence
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Sworn - Non-sworn
36. How long is a federal judge's term of office for?
Evidence
Punishment without trial
Magna Carta
Life
37. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?
6th Amendment
Bench Trial
Local level
1903
38. Who were the country's first president and vice president?
Bill of Rights
John Marshall
George Washington - John Adams
17 -500
39. Who said - 'The police are the public and the public are the police'?
F.B.I.
State/Local Court System
Deterrence
Sir Robert Peel
40. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
Misdemeanor
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Local level
Judicial System = Institutional System
41. What 1865 federal law enforcement agency was initially responsible for excessive counterfeiting following the civil war?
Pendelton Act
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Retribution
Secret Service
42. The average local law enforcement agency will often employ how many officers and serve what size population?
50 - 25000
90%
Possecomintatus
Probation Officer
43. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Trial
44. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?
Misdemeanor
State
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Statue of Winchester
45. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
John Marshall
5th Amendment
46. Under English Common Law what was the general cut off age in distinguishing between those who could charged with felonies?
14
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
1383
Dual System
47. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Indeterminate Sentencing
48. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
F.B.I
Article III of the Constitution
14
Change
49. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?
Judicial System = Institutional System
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Evaluation
Intermediate Courts
50. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
Crime Control - Due Process
85%
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Loosely Coupled
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