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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Continue to another date
Marbury versus Madison
Lower Courts
2. What was name of the era which was distinguished by the Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program?
8th Amendment
Community Orientated Policing Era
14
Sworn - Non-sworn
3. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Potential for Incarceration
Attorney General
Community Orientated Policing Era
4. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?
Due Process Phase
Adversarial System
County
Misdemeanor
5. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
Misdemeanor
1383
Serpico
Probation Officer
6. What Latin term means great paper?
Statue of Winchester
Arrangement
Magna Carta
Community Orientated Policing Era
7. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1987 as a supplement to UCRS?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Habeas Corpus
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Marbury versus Madison
8. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
Statue of Winchester
Misdemeanor
Chief
Judiciary Act
9. What is the Latin term that means evil or bad in itself?
Judicial/Legislative
Lexington - Concord
Mala en Se
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
10. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?
Loosely Coupled System
Patronage
Possecomintatus
English Common Law
11. Local California courts which handle misdemeanors - minor civil matters - and traffic violations are called what?
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
17 -500
14
Incorrigibles
12. When court systems or levels disagree or question if rules are properly applied - what type of court is used?
None
Life
Appeals
Mala Prohibita
13. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?
1382
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Dual System
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
14. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?
Hoover
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Sheriff
15. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?
None
F.B.I.
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Judicial/Legislative
16. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
Patrick Colquhoun
Generalists
Secret Service
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
17. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?
Better
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
85%
Superior Court
18. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?
F.B.I.
Intermediate Courts
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Probation Officer
19. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
Trials
4th Amendment
Loosely Coupled System
U.S. Federal District Courts
20. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
17 -500
Arrangement
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
8th Amendment
21. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Deterrence
Complaint
Makes deals and not go to trial
22. What two factors does a probation officer consider when writing the presentence report?
Right away
Body - Amendments
Aggravating - Mitigating
State
23. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?
Federal Court System
Petition
39
Formal Probation
24. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?
Attorney General
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
90%
Federal Court System
25. What is meant by inferior courts?
Patronage
Miranda versus Arizona
Lower Courts
Conditional Sentence
26. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
The Family Model
Statue of Winchester
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
27. In 1789 which London magistrate stressed the need for a 'centralized' law enforcement agency?
Limited
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Patrick Colquhoun
Conditional Sentence
28. How is a jury panel selected?
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Evidence
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
29. Who said - 'The police are the public and the public are the police'?
Sir Robert Peel
Federal Court System
Miranda versus Arizona
Adversarial System
30. What major 1829 English law created a centralized urban police force in London?
U.S. Court of Appeals
All volunteers
Federal Court System
London Metropolitan Police Act
31. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
17 -500
Preliminary Hearing
Deterrence
Mala Prohibita
32. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?
Article III of the Constitution
Jurisdiction
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Complaint
33. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
Loosely Coupled
Broken Windows
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
85%
34. What concept discusses 'an eye for an eye'?
Bench Trial
Retribution
The Family Model
Judicial System = Institutional System
35. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
U.S. Constitution
Loosely Coupled System
Local level
Tribal
36. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
State
Nolo Contendre
Preliminary Hearing
Boston Massacre
37. What west coast supreme court case in 1876 further established the philosophy of Parens Patriae and no due process for juveniles?
Ah Peen
Community Orientated Policing Era
Assistant District Attorneys
U.S. Marshall's
38. What does a mitigating factor make the report?
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
1203(b)(1) - Felony
U.S. Constitution
Better
39. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
Court Room Work Group
U.S. Court of Appeals
Community Orientated Policing Era
Incorrigibles
40. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?
Misdemeanor
14
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Community Sensitive Programs
41. 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
Parens Patriae
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Constitutional Law
42. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
F.B.I.
1 and 8
Sworn - Non-sworn
43. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Serpico
State/Local Court System
State
44. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
Original Jurisdiction
Habeas Corpus
Discretion
Intermediate Courts
45. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?
Patronage and Corruption
Trials
Body - Amendments
Stamp Act of 1765
46. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Constitutional Law
Judicial/Legislative
Makes deals and not go to trial
47. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
17
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Original Jurisdiction
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
48. Which of the five major phases in the criminal justice system since 1965 produced major case law?
Future laws not passed yet
Deterrence
Original Jurisdiction
Due Process Phase
49. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Punishment without trial
U.S. Marshall's
5th Amendment
50. The B.I.A. and the F.B.I. often provide support and assistance to what level of law enforcement agencies?
Infraction
Dual System
Tribal
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