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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What is an offense that consists of illegal conduct but no jail time?
Future laws not passed yet
Petition
Infraction
Stare Decisis
2. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
Tribal
Complaint
Loosely Coupled System
Hoover
3. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?
Aggravating - Mitigating
90%
Generalists
39
4. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?
Patronage and Corruption
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Hoover
Conditional Sentence
5. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?
17 -500
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Body - Amendments
Evaluation
6. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Discretion
Future laws not passed yet
7. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?
London Metropolitan Police Act
Very inactive
Formal Probation
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
8. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
9. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?
Bill of Rights
1382
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Government Attorney
10. What is the name for a felony complaint?
14th Amendment
Pendelton Act
Hoover
Information
11. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Judicial System = Institutional System
Trials
12. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?
English Common Law
Habeas Corpus
Original Jurisdiction
County
13. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?
14
Court Administrator
Retribution
Intermediate Courts
14. What do bills of attainer relate to?
Punishment without trial
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
State
1383
15. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?
Information
6th Amendment
Magna Carta
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
16. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?
Sheriff or Shireeve
Discretion
Marbury versus Madison
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
17. The Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program motivated police to try what new procedures?
Community Sensitive Programs
Attorney General
Judicial/Legislative
Courts
18. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
Punishment without trial
17 -500
Tribal
Habeas Corpus
19. What does ex-post facto law relate to?
Serpico
County
Sir Robert Peel
Future laws not passed yet
20. Negative political influence and corruption impacting 19th century U.S. police agencies was called what?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Sworn - Non-sworn
London Metropolitan Police Act
Patronage
21. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
State
Felony
Pretrial Hearing
22. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
Pretrial Hearing
Community Sensitive Programs
Judicial/Legislative
Local level
23. What does an aggravating factor make the report?
Yes
Worse
Community Sensitive Programs
Nolo Contendre
24. What was the name of the article which encouraged law enforcement not just to focus on crime - but the social factors of crime?
Broken Windows
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Body - Amendments
1903
25. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?
Petition
Miranda versus Arizona
Judicial System = Institutional System
Tribal
26. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Own Recognizance
14th Amendment
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Judicial - Executive
27. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
U.S. Marshall's
Change
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
28. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?
F.B.I
Presentence Court Report
Court Administrator
U.S. Postal Inspectors
29. What English Common Law court system could arguably be seen as the world's first dedicated juvenile court?
30. Which 1760s British tax law placed tax quotes on all paper based products imported into the colonies?
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Magna Carta
Stamp Act of 1765
Nolo Contendre
31. What does a judge order the probation department to write in order to find more about an individual before sentencing?
Presentence Court Report
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
17 -500
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
32. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
1382
Loosely Coupled
English Common Law
Community Sensitive Programs
33. After the U.S. Constitution was ratified - what type of court system did the U.S. realize it needed to have?
Federal Court System
Punishment without trial
Conditional Sentence
London Metropolitan Police Act
34. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
8th Amendment
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
U.S. Marshall's
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
35. What were minors who disobeyed orders of the Kings Chancery Court system called?
17 -500
Incorrigibles
Attorney General
Articles of Confederation
36. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?
90%
Body - Amendments
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Misdemeanor
37. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?
Sworn - Non-sworn
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Due Process
London Metropolitan Police Act
38. The third federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
U.S. Federal District Courts
Statue of Winchester
Loosely Coupled
Very inactive
39. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Hoover
Patrick Colquhoun
F.B.I
40. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1987 as a supplement to UCRS?
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Dual System
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
41. What do the majority of cases going into the U.S. District Court involve?
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Due Process Phase
John Augustus
Appeals
42. What current California legal code did the Law of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses contribute to?
The Penal Code
Article III of the Constitution
Serpico
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
43. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Community Orientated Policing Era
1 and 8
17
44. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?
Article III of the Constitution
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Body - Amendments
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
45. What Penal Code section states that the court shall refer to probation for a report?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
The Family Model
Complaint
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
46. What is the State Court System's court of last resort?
State Supreme Court
F.B.I.
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Pretrial Hearing
47. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
Generalists
Court Administrator
Mala en Se
U.S. Marshall's
48. What is discovery?
Evidence
Judicial Review
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Felony
49. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
Special Police Force
Marbury versus Madison
Pretrial Hearing
None
50. Who is referred to as the father of probation?
Sheriff or Shireeve
John Augustus
Broken Windows
State