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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?
Possecomintatus
County
Original Jurisdiction
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
2. In what year and state was the country's first dedicated juvenile justice system and court legally established?
Adversarial System
Original Jurisdiction
Probation Officer
1899 Illinois
3. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
U.S. Constitution
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Indeterminate Sentencing
Preliminary Hearing
4. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Mala Prohibita
1383
Tribal
5. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
Vigilantes
Sheriff or Shireeve
Statue of Winchester
4th Amendment
6. After the U.S. Constitution was ratified - what type of court system did the U.S. realize it needed to have?
Federal Court System
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Judicial System = Institutional System
7. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?
Discretion
Sir Robert Peel
Boston Massacre
Own Recognizance
8. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
F.B.I.
The Family Model
Better
Lexington - Concord
9. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Bench Trial
Deterrence
Judicial/Legislative
10. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?
Sir Robert Peel
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Intermediate Courts
U.S. Court of Appeals
11. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1930?
Lower Courts
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Sir Robert Peel
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
12. What major 1829 English law created a centralized urban police force in London?
London Metropolitan Police Act
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Felony
Very inactive
13. What Penal Code section states that the court shall refer to probation for a report?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Pendelton Act
830.1
14. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Aggravating - Mitigating
Patronage and Corruption
Judiciary Act
15. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1987 as a supplement to UCRS?
Evaluation
Loosely Coupled System
Constitutional Law
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
16. Who were the country's first president and vice president?
Loosely Coupled
First Continental Congress
George Washington - John Adams
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
17. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?
Special Police Force
Stare Decisis
John Augustus
Habeas Corpus
18. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
85%
6th Amendment
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
19. How long is a federal judge's term of office for?
1 and 8
Crime Control - Due Process
Life
17
20. What does an aggravating factor make the report?
Ah Peen
Sworn - Non-sworn
None
Worse
21. What are the five levels of force among agencies?
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Crime Control - Due Process
Stamp Act of 1765
Preliminary Hearing
22. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
Misdemeanor
Information
Mary Ann Crouse
Constitutional Law
23. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?
Continue to another date
Indeterminate Sentencing
Precedent
Loosely Coupled System
24. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?
State
King Henry II
National Crime Information Center
Assistant District Attorneys
25. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
5th Amendment
Special Police Force
Judiciary Act
Mala en Se
26. What concept attempts to alter future behaviors through threats of punishment and consequences?
Attorney General
Incorrigibles
Deterrence
Intermediate Courts
27. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?
London Metropolitan Police Act
Local level
U.S. Postal Inspectors
6th Amendment
28. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
Preliminary Hearing
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
830.1
29. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
George Washington - John Adams
17 -500
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
30. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?
Hoover
Tribal
Judiciary Act
County
31. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?
Assistant District Attorneys
Very inactive
Felony
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
32. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
17 -500
Evaluation
Superior Court
Parens Patriae
33. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Community Sensitive Programs
Judicial Review
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
34. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?
County
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Pretrial Hearing
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
35. What do bills of attainer relate to?
Punishment without trial
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
1899 Illinois
Potential for Incarceration
36. What is the main criteria which determines whether a mater goes to a federal or state court?
Local level
Future laws not passed yet
Probation Officer
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
37. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?
Punishment without trial
4th Amendment
17 -500
Infraction
38. What Penal Code section states that the court may refer to probation for a report?
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Preliminary Hearing
4th Amendment
Sworn - Non-sworn
39. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?
Own Recognizance
National Crime Information Center
14th Amendment
34
40. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?
Trial
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Life
41. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
U.S. Court of Appeals
1899 Illinois
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
42. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
Mala Prohibita
Article III of the Constitution
Bench Trial
Trials
43. Where does a felony case begin?
State
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Mary Ann Crouse
State/Local Court System
44. Local California courts which handle misdemeanors - minor civil matters - and traffic violations are called what?
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Tribal
Potential for Incarceration
Complaint
45. What is another term for informal probation?
Conditional Sentence
Continue to another date
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
46. What two things do military police entities possess?
Complaint
Lexington - Concord
Judicial System = Institutional System
Bill of Rights
47. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?
Very inactive
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Loosely Coupled
Government Attorney
48. Negative political influence and corruption impacting 19th century U.S. police agencies was called what?
Mala en Se
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Patronage
Misdemeanor
49. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
U.S. Court of Appeals
14
John Augustus
50. In 1829 which English government employee pushed a new law which followed the ideas of Patrick Colquhoun?
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Tribal
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Sir Robert Peel