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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1930?
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Aggravating - Mitigating
Hoover
85%
2. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?
8th Amendment
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
King Henry II
3. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?
Adversarial System
17 -500
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Right away
4. Who runs the N.C.I.C.?
Assistant District Attorneys
Secret Service
Adversarial System
F.B.I
5. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
90 Million
Potential for Incarceration
Hoover
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
6. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?
8th Amendment
Adversarial System
Arrangement
The Penal Code
7. What is another term for informal probation?
Conditional Sentence
Special Police Force
Pretrial Hearing
Continue to another date
8. What west coast supreme court case in 1876 further established the philosophy of Parens Patriae and no due process for juveniles?
State
English Common Law
State
Ah Peen
9. The power of the U.S. Supreme Court to interpret what the constitution says and means - via case law - is known as what?
Tribal
Generalists
Judicial Review
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
10. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?
National Crime Information Center
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Sworn - Non-sworn
F.B.I.
11. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Preliminary Hearing
Potential for Incarceration
English Common Law
12. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?
None
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Community Orientated Policing Era
State/Local Court System
13. What federal law enforcement agency delegated peace officer powers to citizens during the era of the wild west?
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14. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?
Stare Decisis
Generalists
Superior Court
National Crime Information Center
15. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
U.S. Court of Appeals
Mala Prohibita
U.S. Constitution
Change
16. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?
King Henry II
14th Amendment
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Judiciary Act
17. Who is referred to as the father of probation?
John Augustus
Discretion
1383
F.B.I
18. What was the name of the article which encouraged law enforcement not just to focus on crime - but the social factors of crime?
Articles of Confederation
85%
State
Broken Windows
19. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
County
Limited
Indeterminate Sentencing
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
20. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?
Superior Court
Stamp Act of 1765
State
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
21. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Discretion
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
None
22. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
U.S. Marshall's
Tribal
5th Amendment
Judicial System = Institutional System
23. What concepts attempts to protect society by isolating others?
U.S. Constitution
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Incapaciation
Life
24. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
1383
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Formal Probation
25. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
County
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Adversarial System
26. What legal model first attempted the concept of rehabilitation and resocialization?
The Family Model
90%
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Loosely Coupled System
27. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Dual System
28. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?
14
Dual System
Mala Prohibita
1383
29. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
Discretion
Infraction
Punishment without trial
Crime Control - Due Process
30. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?
Pendelton Act
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Constitutional Law
Makes deals and not go to trial
31. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
90%
50 - 25000
London Metropolitan Police Act
5th Amendment
32. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
Loosely Coupled
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Nolo Contendre
33. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
Presentence Court Report
17 -500
Trials
Mary Ann Crouse
34. How long is a federal judge's term of office for?
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Life
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
35. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?
Retribution
State
County
Sir Robert Peel
36. The B.I.A. and the F.B.I. often provide support and assistance to what level of law enforcement agencies?
State
Due Process
All volunteers
Tribal
37. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?
Due Process
County
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
38. What concept attempts to alter future behaviors through threats of punishment and consequences?
Crime Control Due Process
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Deterrence
Miranda versus Arizona
39. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
County
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
40. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
Judicial System = Institutional System
Aggravating - Mitigating
Loosely Coupled System
50 - 25000
41. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?
Attorney General
Miranda versus Arizona
Dual System
Chief
42. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?
Articles of Confederation
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
State
The Family Model
43. What major 1829 English law created a centralized urban police force in London?
Petition
Habeas Corpus
London Metropolitan Police Act
U.S. Federal District Courts
44. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Possecomintatus
Indeterminate Sentencing
London Metropolitan Police Act
45. What are the two ancient codes that contributed to our current legal system?
English Common Law
Arrangement
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
830.1
46. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?
Court Administrator
Crime Control Due Process
Sworn - Non-sworn
Crime Control - Due Process
47. Who is in charge of staffing - calender - budget - and other material needs of the court room?
Better
Formal Probation
Court Administrator
Local level
48. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
1382
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Yes
49. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?
14
Body - Amendments
Serpico
John Marshall
50. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
1977 Dixon Bill
Community Orientated Policing Era
Judicial System = Institutional System
Stare Decisis