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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
Loosely Coupled
Articles of Confederation
Serpico
Local level
2. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?
Incapaciation
Stare Decisis
Incorrigibles
90%
3. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Sworn - Non-sworn
Loosely Coupled
8th Amendment
4. The power of the U.S. Supreme Court to interpret what the constitution says and means - via case law - is known as what?
Judicial Review
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Due Process
Trials
5. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
National Crime Information Center
Article III of the Constitution
U.S. Postal Inspectors
6. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?
Aggravating - Mitigating
Article III of the Constitution
14
Worse
7. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
Government Attorney
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
U.S. Constitution
8. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?
Indeterminate Sentencing
1903
Discretion
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
9. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?
Better
State
Tribal
Due Process
10. What do bills of attainer relate to?
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Right away
Punishment without trial
11. What Penal Code section states that the court may refer to probation for a report?
Article III of the Constitution
Sworn - Non-sworn
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
12. What does a mitigating factor make the report?
Serpico
Better
Discretion
Presentence Court Report
13. In which two locations did the actual shooting war begin between British soldiers and Colonial militia men?
Lexington - Concord
Appeal
Conditional Sentence
17
14. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Judicial - Executive
Punishment without trial
Judicial Review
6th Amendment
15. What major 1829 English law created a centralized urban police force in London?
Judicial System = Institutional System
London Metropolitan Police Act
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
$1.7 million
16. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
Judicial/Legislative
State Supreme Court
Discretion
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
17. Is the Federal or State court system older?
Discretion
State
Courts
Serpico
18. Which 1760s British tax law placed tax quotes on all paper based products imported into the colonies?
Articles of Confederation
Trials
Magna Carta
Stamp Act of 1765
19. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
1977 Dixon Bill
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Magna Carta
Patronage and Corruption
20. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
17 -500
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
21. What 1770 shooting incident heightened tensions between Boston colonists and newly arrived British soldiers?
Evidence
Boston Massacre
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Sheriff
22. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?
Loosely Coupled System
Constitutional Law
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Future laws not passed yet
23. What west coast supreme court case in 1876 further established the philosophy of Parens Patriae and no due process for juveniles?
Formal Probation
Ah Peen
Patronage and Corruption
Tribal
24. What does N.C.I.C. stand for?
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Community Orientated Policing Era
National Crime Information Center
Adversarial System
25. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Judicial/Legislative
Serpico
Prison Time - Death Sentence
26. What concept attempts to alter future behaviors through threats of punishment and consequences?
Sheriff
Deterrence
The Family Model
Retribution
27. Which of the five major phases in the criminal justice system since 1965 produced major case law?
Court Administrator
Continue to another date
Due Process Phase
None
28. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
State Supreme Court
Evaluation
Statue of Winchester
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
29. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
Assistant District Attorneys
Worse
Judicial - Executive
State
30. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?
Possecomintatus
Misdemeanor
Information
17
31. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
Generalists
Preliminary Hearing
Judicial - Executive
Potential for Incarceration
32. What current California legal code did the Law of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses contribute to?
The Penal Code
Sheriff
Patronage and Corruption
State
33. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?
Crime Control - Due Process
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Conditional Sentence
Original Jurisdiction
34. What two factors does a probation officer consider when writing the presentence report?
Right away
Trials
Evidence
Aggravating - Mitigating
35. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?
Potential for Incarceration
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Patrick Colquhoun
36. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?
Court Room Work Group
Due Process Phase
90%
Deterrence
37. 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
Judicial - Executive
Due Process Phase
Own Recognizance
38. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
National Crime Information Center
Judiciary Act
90 Million
39. Jail time - restitution - contact restrictions - drug testing - searches and seizures - employment verification - and counseling can be terms of what?
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Loosely Coupled
Formal Probation
40. What is a local law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Chief
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
90 Million
Complaint
41. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?
Mary Ann Crouse
Due Process Phase
Superior Court
4th Amendment
42. The Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program motivated police to try what new procedures?
Community Sensitive Programs
George Washington - John Adams
King Chamberlain's Court
Pendelton Act
43. What is the Latin term that means evil or bad in itself?
Generalists
Mala en Se
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
44. How is a jury panel selected?
Loosely Coupled System
17 -500
Precedent
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
45. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?
1903
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
National Crime Information Center
Jurisdiction
46. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
Body - Amendments
Preliminary Hearing
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Continue to another date
47. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Magna Carta
Bench Trial
County
48. What English Common Law court system could arguably be seen as the world's first dedicated juvenile court?
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49. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?
Evidence
17 -500
1382
Community Sensitive Programs
50. 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
Yes
State
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