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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1987 as a supplement to UCRS?
Original Jurisdiction
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Jurisdiction
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
2. What Penal Code section states that the court may refer to probation for a report?
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
First Continental Congress
1383
3. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
1977 Dixon Bill
Court Administrator
Misdemeanor
None
4. What are the oldest law enforcement agencies in the country?
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5. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
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Bench Trial
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Arrangement
6. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
Evaluation
5th Amendment
Generalists
Punishment without trial
7. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
Misdemeanor
Discretion
Deterrence
None
8. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
Loosely Coupled
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Dual System
Marbury versus Madison
9. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
Adversarial System
Nolo Contendre
Crime Control Due Process
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
10. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?
Indeterminate Sentencing
Miranda versus Arizona
34
Adversarial System
11. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
Incapaciation
Lower Courts
Stare Decisis
1383
12. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?
6th Amendment
Articles of Confederation
90%
Boston Massacre
13. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
Bill of Rights
1899 Illinois
Punishment without trial
Intermediate Courts
14. What federal law enforcement agency delegated peace officer powers to citizens during the era of the wild west?
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15. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?
Chief
Constitutional Law
4th Amendment
Assistant District Attorneys
16. What two things do military police entities possess?
14
1903
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Judicial System = Institutional System
17. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?
Trial
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Stamp Act of 1765
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
18. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?
Articles of Confederation
Better
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
19. Jail time - restitution - contact restrictions - drug testing - searches and seizures - employment verification - and counseling can be terms of what?
All volunteers
National Crime Information Center
Formal Probation
Appeals
20. The Federal Court system was created through what?
Judiciary Act
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Stars
21. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?
Incapaciation
King Henry II
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
22. What is an offense that consists of illegal conduct but no jail time?
Adversarial System
Yes
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Infraction
23. What is the Latin term that means evil or bad in itself?
Mala en Se
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
17
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
24. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
London Metropolitan Police Act
17
Incapaciation
Statue of Winchester
25. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?
Due Process
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Own Recognizance
26. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Intermediate Courts
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Court Administrator
27. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
Judicial System = Institutional System
Habeas Corpus
Preliminary Hearing
Trials
28. What is the State Court System's court of last resort?
London Metropolitan Police Act
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Mala Prohibita
State Supreme Court
29. What is meant by inferior courts?
Lower Courts
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Adversarial System
Sheriff or Shireeve
30. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Judiciary Act
17 -500
Stamp Act of 1765
Judicial - Executive
31. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?
Secret Service
King Henry II
Articles of Confederation
Felony
32. In 1789 which London magistrate stressed the need for a 'centralized' law enforcement agency?
The Penal Code
Secret Service
Patrick Colquhoun
17 -500
33. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Pretrial Hearing
State Supreme Court
14
34. If you plea guilty at a misdemeanor arraignment - when can a judge sentence you?
Chief
6th Amendment
Right away
1977 Dixon Bill
35. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?
Discretion
First Continental Congress
Deterrence
Due Process
36. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?
U.S. Federal District Courts
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
6th Amendment
90%
37. What law enforcement agency maintains the largest training academy in the U.S.?
F.B.I.
Formal Probation
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
1382
38. In what year and state was the country's first dedicated juvenile justice system and court legally established?
1899 Illinois
Stare Decisis
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Court Administrator
39. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?
Broken Windows
King John
Judicial System = Institutional System
Adversarial System
40. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
Sheriff or Shireeve
Attorney General
Preliminary Hearing
17 -500
41. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
Discretion
Local level
Worse
Probation Officer
42. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
Discretion
Petition
85%
London Metropolitan Police Act
43. What does a judge order the probation department to write in order to find more about an individual before sentencing?
Secret Service
Presentence Court Report
English Common Law
Bench Trial
44. Negative political influence and corruption impacting 19th century U.S. police agencies was called what?
English Common Law
Patronage
Hoover
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
45. The three federal courts are known as what?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
6th Amendment
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
46. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?
Appeals
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
State
47. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
Potential for Incarceration
Mala Prohibita
Miranda versus Arizona
F.B.I.
48. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?
Miranda versus Arizona
King Chamberlain's Court
Magna Carta
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
49. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?
F.B.I.
830.1
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Formal Probation
50. The average local law enforcement agency will often employ how many officers and serve what size population?
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Attorney General
Future laws not passed yet
50 - 25000