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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What are the two ancient codes that contributed to our current legal system?
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Magna Carta
Mala en Se
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
2. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?
Local level
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Boston Massacre
3. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?
90 Million
1903
Discretion
Original Jurisdiction
4. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
London Metropolitan Police Act
U.S. Constitution
Sir Robert Peel
State
5. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
Serpico
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Change
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
6. Generally speaking - what type of attorney is a prosecuting attorney?
Incorrigibles
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Government Attorney
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
7. What is meant by inferior courts?
Vigilantes
English Common Law
Lower Courts
Article III of the Constitution
8. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
1382
None
14
Right away
9. What major 1829 English law created a centralized urban police force in London?
5th Amendment
Crime Control Due Process
London Metropolitan Police Act
Habeas Corpus
10. Negative political influence and corruption impacting 19th century U.S. police agencies was called what?
Patronage
F.B.I.
Sir Robert Peel
Court Administrator
11. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Judicial System = Institutional System
State/Local Court System
Patrick Colquhoun
12. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?
Bill of Rights
Hoover
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Mala Prohibita
13. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Intermediate Courts
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Articles of Confederation
14. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
Tribal
Broken Windows
Change
Jurisdiction
15. What are the four Cs of the criminal justice system?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Precedent
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Sworn - Non-sworn
16. What was name of the era which was distinguished by the Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program?
London Metropolitan Police Act
90%
Marbury versus Madison
Community Orientated Policing Era
17. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?
Stars
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Government Attorney
18. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
1977 Dixon Bill
Discretion
First Continental Congress
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
19. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?
Discretion
Dual System
U.S. Marshall's
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
20. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?
50 - 25000
Patronage
County
Hoover
21. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?
Pretrial Hearing
The Family Model
State
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
22. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Original Jurisdiction
Future laws not passed yet
Potential for Incarceration
23. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Very inactive
Community Sensitive Programs
Presentence Court Report
24. The power of the U.S. Supreme Court to interpret what the constitution says and means - via case law - is known as what?
Pretrial Hearing
Judicial Review
39
First Continental Congress
25. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
8th Amendment
Magna Carta
Petition
830.1
26. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?
Local level
Dual System
Tribal
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
27. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
Mala Prohibita
39
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Constitutional Law
28. Who is referred to as the father of probation?
Statue of Winchester
John Augustus
Aggravating - Mitigating
Information
29. Other then UCRS and NIBRS - what entities compile information about crime in the country?
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
U.S. Court of Appeals
Life
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
30. 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
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
50 - 25000
17 -500
31. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
Worse
Bill of Rights
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
John Marshall
32. What 1770 shooting incident heightened tensions between Boston colonists and newly arrived British soldiers?
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Boston Massacre
Government Attorney
Judiciary Act
33. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?
Infraction
Magna Carta
Patronage and Corruption
Loosely Coupled
34. What west coast supreme court case in 1876 further established the philosophy of Parens Patriae and no due process for juveniles?
Ah Peen
Own Recognizance
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
35. What law enforcement agency maintains the largest training academy in the U.S.?
F.B.I.
Superior Court
Court Administrator
34
36. What is discovery?
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Evidence
1977 Dixon Bill
Judiciary Act
37. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?
Appeal
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Patrick Colquhoun
90 Million
38. The B.I.A. and the F.B.I. often provide support and assistance to what level of law enforcement agencies?
Magna Carta
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Tribal
English Common Law
39. What does O.R. mean?
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Lexington - Concord
Own Recognizance
17
40. What is the average budget of a local law enforcement agency?
Articles of Confederation
$1.7 million
Due Process Phase
King Henry II
41. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
First Continental Congress
Articles of Confederation
Vigilantes
42. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
Arrangement
Due Process Phase
Special Police Force
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
43. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Arrangement
Stare Decisis
Probation Officer
44. What is the Latin term that means evil or bad in itself?
Mala en Se
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Precedent
Worse
45. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?
Lexington - Concord
First Continental Congress
King Henry II
$1.7 million
46. What does an aggravating factor make the report?
County
Broken Windows
Worse
17 -500
47. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
1 and 8
Trial
Bench Trial
Habeas Corpus
48. What concept attempts to alter future behaviors through threats of punishment and consequences?
Right away
Deterrence
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
49. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
John Augustus
Preliminary Hearing
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Limited
50. What is a local law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Conditional Sentence
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Limited
Chief