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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?
Adversarial System
Right away
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Courts
2. What does a judge order the probation department to write in order to find more about an individual before sentencing?
Jurisdiction
Mala en Se
14
Presentence Court Report
3. What major 1803 U.S. Supreme Court case established that the court would begin to interpret what the constitution was all about?
1382
Marbury versus Madison
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
1 and 8
4. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
Incorrigibles
Change
Misdemeanor
Lexington - Concord
5. What is a county law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Sheriff
$1.7 million
50 - 25000
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
6. What 1865 federal law enforcement agency was initially responsible for excessive counterfeiting following the civil war?
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Yes
Discretion
Secret Service
7. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
U.S. Marshall's
County
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
8. Which of the five major phases in the criminal justice system since 1965 produced major case law?
Right away
Patronage
Due Process Phase
Indeterminate Sentencing
9. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
Marbury versus Madison
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
1977 Dixon Bill
10. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?
Trial
Crime Control - Due Process
Arrangement
Mala en Se
11. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
Statue of Winchester
Conditional Sentence
Arrangement
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
12. Who runs the N.C.I.C.?
F.B.I
Loosely Coupled
Superior Court
Original Jurisdiction
13. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
Habeas Corpus
Hoover
Change
London Metropolitan Police Act
14. What does a preliminary hearing determine?
Continue to another date
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Bench Trial
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
15. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?
Special Police Force
85%
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Superior Court
16. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?
Judicial Review
Sir Robert Peel
King Henry II
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
17. How many states use the death penalty?
Government Attorney
34
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Limited
18. What Latin term means great paper?
None
First Continental Congress
Magna Carta
Future laws not passed yet
19. What are the oldest law enforcement agencies in the country?
20. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
London Metropolitan Police Act
Sworn - Non-sworn
17 -500
21. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
1 and 8
22. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?
Judiciary Act
Appeal
Appeals
County
23. What do bills of attainer relate to?
County
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Punishment without trial
24. What Latin term means - 'father or parent of the country?'
Incorrigibles
Parens Patriae
Own Recognizance
34
25. What are the five levels of force among agencies?
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
English Common Law
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Dual System
26. What 1838 Ohio State Supreme Court Case established the concept of Parens Patriae and no need for due process in juvenile matters?
17 -500
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
County
Mary Ann Crouse
27. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
Presentence Court Report
Vigilantes
Worse
85%
28. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Evaluation
29. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
Potential for Incarceration
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Discretion
Appeals
30. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?
90 Million
Better
Adversarial System
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
31. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
F.B.I.
Retribution
32. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?
39
Crime Control - Due Process
Jurisdiction
Sheriff
33. What does an aggravating factor make the report?
Due Process
King Henry II
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Worse
34. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?
1977 Dixon Bill
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Statue of Winchester
39
35. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
U.S. Constitution
Loosely Coupled
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Adversarial System
36. Both felonies are misdemeanors are first filed as what?
Sir Robert Peel
F.B.I
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Complaint
37. The Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program motivated police to try what new procedures?
Better
Community Sensitive Programs
Complaint
Change
38. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
Statue of Winchester
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Appeal
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
39. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
Secret Service
U.S. Postal Inspectors
State
Possecomintatus
40. What Penal Code section states that the court shall refer to probation for a report?
Statue of Winchester
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Trial
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
41. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Court Room Work Group
42. Who is referred to as the father of probation?
John Augustus
Due Process Phase
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
George Washington - John Adams
43. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?
17 -500
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
50 - 25000
44. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?
King Henry II
Court Room Work Group
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Attorney General
45. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1987 as a supplement to UCRS?
Incapaciation
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Own Recognizance
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
46. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?
Intermediate Courts
Makes deals and not go to trial
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Stare Decisis
47. Who is in charge of staffing - calender - budget - and other material needs of the court room?
Courts
Court Administrator
Mala en Se
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
48. What current California legal code did the Law of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses contribute to?
The Penal Code
5th Amendment
Continue to another date
State/Local Court System
49. What are the two main functions of criminal courts?
50. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Information
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System