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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What is the State Court System's court of last resort?
Misdemeanor
State Supreme Court
Judicial System = Institutional System
Article III of the Constitution
2. What type of bodies do our current laws come from?
Judicial/Legislative
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Mala Prohibita
3. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
Aggravating - Mitigating
Loosely Coupled
Felony
State Supreme Court
4. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Assistant District Attorneys
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
5. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
Community Orientated Policing Era
Discretion
Intermediate Courts
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
6. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
English Common Law
Body - Amendments
Adversarial System
Vigilantes
7. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?
Conditional Sentence
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Potential for Incarceration
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
8. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?
Judicial - Executive
Crime Control Due Process
Prison Time - Death Sentence
6th Amendment
9. What does a mitigating factor make the report?
Judicial System = Institutional System
London Metropolitan Police Act
Better
English Common Law
10. What current California legal code did the Law of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses contribute to?
Attorney General
The Penal Code
Very inactive
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
11. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
Misdemeanor
Probation Officer
Jurisdiction
Possecomintatus
12. What does a judge order the probation department to write in order to find more about an individual before sentencing?
14th Amendment
Presentence Court Report
Sworn - Non-sworn
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
13. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
1 and 8
U.S. Postal Inspectors
County
14. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
Patrick Colquhoun
Stars
Makes deals and not go to trial
Felony
15. What 1838 Ohio State Supreme Court Case established the concept of Parens Patriae and no need for due process in juvenile matters?
Mary Ann Crouse
Attorney General
London Metropolitan Police Act
Change
16. How is a jury panel selected?
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Due Process Phase
Magna Carta
17. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
Stars
State
London Metropolitan Police Act
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
18. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?
14th Amendment
1903
Judiciary Act
King John
19. During the Revolutionary War what major document helped to guide the colonies in fighting their war against Britain?
Articles of Confederation
English Common Law
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Aggravating - Mitigating
20. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
State
U.S. Constitution
Felony
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
21. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
U.S. Court of Appeals
1903
U.S. Marshall's
22. What are the two types of defense attorneys?
State Supreme Court
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
John Augustus
14
23. In 1829 which English government employee pushed a new law which followed the ideas of Patrick Colquhoun?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Community Orientated Policing Era
Sir Robert Peel
Superior Court
24. Local California courts which handle misdemeanors - minor civil matters - and traffic violations are called what?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
25. 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
14
14th Amendment
Incapaciation
26. What are the oldest law enforcement agencies in the country?
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27. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?
Due Process
Very inactive
The Penal Code
90%
28. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?
85%
17 -500
Local level
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
29. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Aggravating - Mitigating
Bench Trial
Prison Time - Death Sentence
30. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?
King John
King Chamberlain's Court
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Stamp Act of 1765
31. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
Nolo Contendre
90 Million
Limited
Generalists
32. What Penal Code section states that the court may refer to probation for a report?
Magna Carta
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Patronage
33. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?
Conditional Sentence
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Judiciary Act
34. The power of the U.S. Supreme Court to interpret what the constitution says and means - via case law - is known as what?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Precedent
Judicial Review
Judiciary Act
35. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?
5th Amendment
County
State
Loosely Coupled System
36. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
90 Million
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Serpico
Discretion
37. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?
Mala en Se
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Adversarial System
Parens Patriae
38. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
Mala Prohibita
1903
14th Amendment
Conditional Sentence
39. What law enforcement agency maintains the largest training academy in the U.S.?
Felony
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
F.B.I.
Incorrigibles
40. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?
Incorrigibles
Incapaciation
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Vigilantes
41. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?
Life
State
Local level
Arrangement
42. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Misdemeanor
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Tribal
43. What is meant by inferior courts?
Trials
Lower Courts
U.S. Court of Appeals
Discretion
44. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?
Continue to another date
First Continental Congress
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Discretion
45. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
Loosely Coupled System
6th Amendment
Limited
Tribal
46. If you plea guilty at a misdemeanor arraignment - when can a judge sentence you?
Attorney General
Mary Ann Crouse
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Right away
47. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?
County
Presentence Court Report
Adversarial System
8th Amendment
48. The average local law enforcement agency will often employ how many officers and serve what size population?
King Henry II
Magna Carta
Discretion
50 - 25000
49. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?
U.S. Marshall's
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
17
17 -500
50. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?
14th Amendment
Community Orientated Policing Era
Generalists
State