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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?
Preliminary Hearing
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Complaint
2. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Judicial System = Institutional System
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Constitutional Law
3. What 1770 shooting incident heightened tensions between Boston colonists and newly arrived British soldiers?
Boston Massacre
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Judicial/Legislative
Sworn - Non-sworn
4. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?
Boston Massacre
Evaluation
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Tribal
5. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
Ah Peen
85%
Life
Misdemeanor
6. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
Preliminary Hearing
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
State
Formal Probation
7. Jail time - restitution - contact restrictions - drug testing - searches and seizures - employment verification - and counseling can be terms of what?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Body - Amendments
Formal Probation
6th Amendment
8. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?
Future laws not passed yet
Bench Trial
Misdemeanor
State
9. What major 1829 English law created a centralized urban police force in London?
Body - Amendments
Felony
14
London Metropolitan Police Act
10. What was the original staffing of the U.S. Supreme Court?
14
State
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Judiciary Act
11. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?
Loosely Coupled
Ah Peen
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Life
12. What federal law enforcement agency delegated peace officer powers to citizens during the era of the wild west?
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13. What was the name of the article which encouraged law enforcement not just to focus on crime - but the social factors of crime?
Information
Broken Windows
Deterrence
Preliminary Hearing
14. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Continue to another date
Retribution
90%
15. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
Loosely Coupled System
39
Discretion
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
16. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Superior Court
Incorrigibles
Complaint
17. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?
Body - Amendments
Sir Robert Peel
Crime Control Due Process
6th Amendment
18. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?
Attorney General
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Prison Time - Death Sentence
John Marshall
19. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Body - Amendments
4th Amendment
Preliminary Hearing
20. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
Potential for Incarceration
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Courts
Sheriff or Shireeve
21. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
U.S. Court of Appeals
Probation Officer
Petition
22. How is a jury panel selected?
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Due Process
23. Local California courts which handle misdemeanors - minor civil matters - and traffic violations are called what?
F.B.I
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Patronage
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24. Under English Common Law what was the general cut off age in distinguishing between those who could charged with felonies?
Government Attorney
Due Process Phase
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
14
25. What is the point of a second preliminary hearing?
1383
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Secret Service
26. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
Trial
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
State Supreme Court
Special Police Force
27. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
U.S. Marshall's
Possecomintatus
Incapaciation
28. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Sheriff
U.S. Marshall's
Very inactive
29. What does a judge order the probation department to write in order to find more about an individual before sentencing?
Stare Decisis
Local level
Miranda versus Arizona
Presentence Court Report
30. When pleading guilty at a felony arrangement - what does the judge generally do for sentencing?
Adversarial System
Stare Decisis
Incapaciation
Continue to another date
31. The third federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
Stare Decisis
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
U.S. Federal District Courts
32. What does O.R. mean?
F.B.I.
Own Recognizance
Infraction
Jurisdiction
33. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
Conditional Sentence
Articles of Confederation
Pretrial Hearing
Habeas Corpus
34. Which of the five major phases in the criminal justice system since 1965 produced major case law?
Due Process Phase
Appeals
National Crime Information Center
Discretion
35. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
Judiciary Act
Generalists
Sir Robert Peel
Sworn - Non-sworn
36. What is a local law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Mala Prohibita
Evidence
Chief
Federal Court System
37. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
Magna Carta
Secret Service
Complaint
85%
38. What concept discusses 'an eye for an eye'?
Due Process
King Chamberlain's Court
Retribution
Conditional Sentence
39. Both felonies are misdemeanors are first filed as what?
Generalists
Sheriff or Shireeve
Aggravating - Mitigating
Complaint
40. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Loosely Coupled
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Generalists
41. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Trials
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
F.B.I.
42. What is the average budget of a local law enforcement agency?
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Assistant District Attorneys
$1.7 million
Deterrence
43. What is the main criteria which determines whether a mater goes to a federal or state court?
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
1383
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
44. The average local law enforcement agency will often employ how many officers and serve what size population?
Probation Officer
Statue of Winchester
Judicial System = Institutional System
50 - 25000
45. What English Common Law court system could arguably be seen as the world's first dedicated juvenile court?
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46. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
1899 Illinois
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Probation Officer
Sheriff
47. Who were the country's first president and vice president?
George Washington - John Adams
Nolo Contendre
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Incapaciation
48. Who is referred to as the father of probation?
Government Attorney
F.B.I.
John Augustus
4th Amendment
49. What Latin term means - 'father or parent of the country?'
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
1383
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Parens Patriae
50. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
Bench Trial
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Constitutional Law
U.S. Constitution