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Criminal Justice 101
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What were minors who disobeyed orders of the Kings Chancery Court system called?
Own Recognizance
Incorrigibles
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Judicial Review
2. What does an aggravating factor make the report?
Incapaciation
Worse
Loosely Coupled
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
3. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
Special Police Force
Body - Amendments
Trials
Local level
4. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
Judiciary Act
State
F.B.I.
Discretion
5. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?
4th Amendment
Judicial/Legislative
Stare Decisis
Tribal
6. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
1977 Dixon Bill
14
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
7. What is the main criteria which determines whether a mater goes to a federal or state court?
English Common Law
Possecomintatus
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Intermediate Courts
8. How is a jury panel selected?
Very inactive
Crime Control - Due Process
Tribal
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
9. Other then UCRS and NIBRS - what entities compile information about crime in the country?
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
London Metropolitan Police Act
Evaluation
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
10. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?
Secret Service
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Original Jurisdiction
4th Amendment
11. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?
Infraction
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Ah Peen
State
12. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?
None
6th Amendment
Original Jurisdiction
Judicial/Legislative
13. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
Assistant District Attorneys
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Information
Probation Officer
14. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?
Original Jurisdiction
830.1
The Family Model
Evaluation
15. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?
Better
5th Amendment
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Courts
16. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?
Pretrial Hearing
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Right away
17. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
Courts
Stare Decisis
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
All volunteers
18. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?
Court Room Work Group
Vigilantes
Hoover
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
19. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1987 as a supplement to UCRS?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Broken Windows
Constitutional Law
Special Police Force
20. What 1770 shooting incident heightened tensions between Boston colonists and newly arrived British soldiers?
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Tribal
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Boston Massacre
21. Both felonies are misdemeanors are first filed as what?
Complaint
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Stamp Act of 1765
90%
22. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
14th Amendment
Mala Prohibita
Federal Court System
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
23. What Latin term means great paper?
Trial
Petition
Magna Carta
State
24. After the U.S. Constitution was ratified - what type of court system did the U.S. realize it needed to have?
Adversarial System
County
Federal Court System
Stare Decisis
25. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?
John Marshall
Crime Control Due Process
Misdemeanor
Adversarial System
26. What concept attempts to alter future behaviors through threats of punishment and consequences?
Mala Prohibita
Discretion
Deterrence
Miranda versus Arizona
27. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?
Probation Officer
14
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Aggravating - Mitigating
28. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?
Constitutional Law
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Article III of the Constitution
Aggravating - Mitigating
29. In 1829 which English government employee pushed a new law which followed the ideas of Patrick Colquhoun?
Pendelton Act
Articles of Confederation
Sir Robert Peel
Crime Control - Due Process
30. Is the Federal or State court system older?
F.B.I
State
Preliminary Hearing
Judicial Review
31. Which of the five major phases in the criminal justice system since 1965 produced major case law?
Due Process Phase
Indeterminate Sentencing
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Judiciary Act
32. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
Deterrence
Change
Arrangement
Patronage and Corruption
33. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?
Indeterminate Sentencing
U.S. Court of Appeals
Crime Control - Due Process
Life
34. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
National Crime Information Center
Loosely Coupled
39
Special Police Force
35. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Sir Robert Peel
Judicial - Executive
County
Adversarial System
36. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?
State
Discretion
Secret Service
Attorney General
37. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
Evaluation
Stars
Government Attorney
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
38. The Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program motivated police to try what new procedures?
Community Sensitive Programs
Crime Control Due Process
1977 Dixon Bill
Serpico
39. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
State Supreme Court
830.1
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Lower Courts
40. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?
Precedent
Misdemeanor
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
41. How many states use the death penalty?
34
Vigilantes
1382
Patronage and Corruption
42. In Orange County - what type of prosecuting attorneys handle the day to day issues in the court room?
Government Attorney
Conditional Sentence
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Assistant District Attorneys
43. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?
14
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
44. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
Special Police Force
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Serpico
Petition
45. What does ex-post facto law relate to?
Deterrence
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Future laws not passed yet
First Continental Congress
46. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
Presentence Court Report
None
Right away
5th Amendment
47. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
Future laws not passed yet
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Preliminary Hearing
48. In what year and state was the country's first dedicated juvenile justice system and court legally established?
1899 Illinois
Bill of Rights
Continue to another date
Constitutional Law
49. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
Vigilantes
Stare Decisis
Sheriff or Shireeve
State
50. What do the majority of cases going into the U.S. District Court involve?
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
830.1
Attorney General
Formal Probation