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Criminal Justice 101
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1. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?
U.S. Postal Inspectors
County
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Indeterminate Sentencing
2. What is another term for informal probation?
Discretion
Conditional Sentence
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Precedent
3. What federal law enforcement agency delegated peace officer powers to citizens during the era of the wild west?
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4. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
Future laws not passed yet
Incorrigibles
Vigilantes
1382
5. What do bills of attainer relate to?
Change
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Punishment without trial
Broken Windows
6. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
17 -500
Original Jurisdiction
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
7. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?
Patronage and Corruption
Jurisdiction
State
Potential for Incarceration
8. Both felonies are misdemeanors are first filed as what?
Judiciary Act
Complaint
17 -500
U.S. Federal District Courts
9. How long is a federal judge's term of office for?
Life
Retribution
Future laws not passed yet
Petition
10. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
Generalists
Special Police Force
Misdemeanor
Judicial - Executive
11. What is the average budget of a local law enforcement agency?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
$1.7 million
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Worse
12. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?
Indeterminate Sentencing
Loosely Coupled
Continue to another date
Appeal
13. Which of the five major phases in the criminal justice system since 1965 produced major case law?
George Washington - John Adams
Arrangement
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Due Process Phase
14. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
1383
1977 Dixon Bill
Generalists
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
15. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
Judicial - Executive
Generalists
Presentence Court Report
Tribal
16. 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
Judicial - Executive
Aggravating - Mitigating
Stamp Act of 1765
17. What legal model first attempted the concept of rehabilitation and resocialization?
U.S. Federal District Courts
1977 Dixon Bill
The Family Model
$1.7 million
18. What does O.R. mean?
Indeterminate Sentencing
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Special Police Force
Own Recognizance
19. What concept discusses 'an eye for an eye'?
Retribution
1 and 8
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Loosely Coupled
20. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
Ah Peen
Trials
Assistant District Attorneys
Stare Decisis
21. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
Broken Windows
Stare Decisis
Government Attorney
830.1
22. What are the two ancient codes that contributed to our current legal system?
John Marshall
Stare Decisis
Serpico
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
23. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
Secret Service
Potential for Incarceration
Sir Robert Peel
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
24. Who said - 'The police are the public and the public are the police'?
Discretion
Sir Robert Peel
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Boston Massacre
25. In Orange County - what type of prosecuting attorneys handle the day to day issues in the court room?
State
Assistant District Attorneys
Bill of Rights
Right away
26. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Pendelton Act
John Augustus
27. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
17 -500
Incapaciation
Bench Trial
28. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?
50 - 25000
Hoover
King Chamberlain's Court
17 -500
29. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
Judiciary Act
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
30. What English Common Law court system could arguably be seen as the world's first dedicated juvenile court?
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31. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?
Article III of the Constitution
Bill of Rights
Better
1977 Dixon Bill
32. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
85%
Indeterminate Sentencing
Dual System
33. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
Presentence Court Report
Judicial - Executive
State
Indeterminate Sentencing
34. What is the name for a felony complaint?
Information
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
35. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?
Loosely Coupled
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Discretion
8th Amendment
36. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?
Generalists
Conditional Sentence
Courts
Jurisdiction
37. What is the point of a second preliminary hearing?
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Stare Decisis
Incapaciation
38. What Penal Code section states that the court may refer to probation for a report?
Sworn - Non-sworn
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
39. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Presentence Court Report
Articles of Confederation
Adversarial System
40. What was name of the era which was distinguished by the Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program?
Bill of Rights
Community Orientated Policing Era
5th Amendment
Due Process Phase
41. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?
Crime Control Due Process
1382
Future laws not passed yet
Probation Officer
42. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?
Appeal
17
London Metropolitan Police Act
Sheriff
43. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
U.S. Constitution
Government Attorney
39
85%
44. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?
Courts
Sworn - Non-sworn
50 - 25000
14th Amendment
45. The Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program motivated police to try what new procedures?
Secret Service
Community Sensitive Programs
Boston Massacre
Potential for Incarceration
46. What is a local law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Preliminary Hearing
Lexington - Concord
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Chief
47. Who is in charge of staffing - calender - budget - and other material needs of the court room?
Broken Windows
Court Administrator
Own Recognizance
Appeal
48. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Change
39
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Judicial - Executive
49. What was the name of the group of people who went to Philadelphia in 1774 in order to discuss their unhappiness with Britain and its taxes?
Crime Control Due Process
Deterrence
Dual System
First Continental Congress
50. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?
Loosely Coupled
Attorney General
Stare Decisis
F.B.I