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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
John Augustus
14th Amendment
Discretion
Prison Time - Death Sentence
2. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
14
90%
Superior Court
Preliminary Hearing
3. Negative political influence and corruption impacting 19th century U.S. police agencies was called what?
Patronage
Felony
6th Amendment
Discretion
4. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1987 as a supplement to UCRS?
14
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Continue to another date
Tribal
5. What is the Latin term that means evil or bad in itself?
Judicial System = Institutional System
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Community Sensitive Programs
Mala en Se
6. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?
Preliminary Hearing
Misdemeanor
Hoover
39
7. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Appeals
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
8. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?
Limited
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Lower Courts
Precedent
9. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Preliminary Hearing
10. What two factors does a probation officer consider when writing the presentence report?
Loosely Coupled System
Aggravating - Mitigating
Due Process Phase
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
11. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?
Constitutional Law
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Stare Decisis
Courts
12. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
Indeterminate Sentencing
None
Government Attorney
Information
13. What two things do military police entities possess?
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Assistant District Attorneys
Judicial System = Institutional System
Information
14. What is another term for informal probation?
U.S. Postal Inspectors
90%
Conditional Sentence
17 -500
15. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
85%
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Tribal
16. How is a jury panel selected?
14th Amendment
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Appeals
17. Local California courts which handle misdemeanors - minor civil matters - and traffic violations are called what?
Constitutional Law
830.1
4th Amendment
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
18. 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
Hoover
National Crime Information Center
1899 Illinois
19. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?
Loosely Coupled
Possecomintatus
Community Sensitive Programs
U.S. Federal District Courts
20. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
Community Sensitive Programs
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Patrick Colquhoun
Misdemeanor
21. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?
Judicial Review
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
90%
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
22. Which of the five major phases in the criminal justice system since 1965 produced major case law?
Due Process Phase
Trials
Nolo Contendre
John Augustus
23. What 1883 federal law stressed the need for a civil service system based upon merit?
Indeterminate Sentencing
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Pendelton Act
State
24. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?
Discretion
17 -500
Courts
Better
25. What federal law enforcement agency delegated peace officer powers to citizens during the era of the wild west?
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26. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?
Nolo Contendre
17 -500
Petition
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
27. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
Loosely Coupled
Statue of Winchester
85%
Magna Carta
28. What is meant by inferior courts?
Lower Courts
Habeas Corpus
County
Incorrigibles
29. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
Yes
Trials
Evaluation
State
30. What does N.C.I.C. stand for?
National Crime Information Center
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
1203(b)(1) - Felony
17
31. When court systems or levels disagree or question if rules are properly applied - what type of court is used?
Appeals
Attorney General
Evaluation
Stare Decisis
32. Where does a felony case begin?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Stare Decisis
Pretrial Hearing
33. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
Community Orientated Policing Era
State/Local Court System
Nolo Contendre
830.1
34. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
U.S. Constitution
Formal Probation
Community Orientated Policing Era
90 Million
35. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Stare Decisis
Hoover
Discretion
36. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
5th Amendment
6th Amendment
37. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?
Community Sensitive Programs
17
Original Jurisdiction
4th Amendment
38. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?
Patronage
8th Amendment
Mala en Se
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
39. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?
Hoover
Stare Decisis
State
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
40. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?
Evaluation
Continue to another date
Nolo Contendre
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
41. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
Discretion
Mala Prohibita
All volunteers
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
42. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?
Court Administrator
State/Local Court System
All volunteers
90%
43. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?
Miranda versus Arizona
14th Amendment
Petition
U.S. Federal District Courts
44. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
5th Amendment
8th Amendment
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Habeas Corpus
45. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
Judicial/Legislative
Stare Decisis
State
London Metropolitan Police Act
46. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
Indeterminate Sentencing
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Future laws not passed yet
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
47. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?
Constitutional Law
Punishment without trial
The Family Model
Due Process Phase
48. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
Complaint
1977 Dixon Bill
Article III of the Constitution
Constitutional Law
49. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?
Very inactive
4th Amendment
Tribal
Statue of Winchester
50. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
1383
Judicial System = Institutional System
Makes deals and not go to trial
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