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Criminal Justice 101
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1. The average local law enforcement agency will often employ how many officers and serve what size population?
Adversarial System
1203(b)(1) - Felony
50 - 25000
County
2. What are the two ancient codes that contributed to our current legal system?
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
English Common Law
King John
14th Amendment
3. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
English Common Law
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Bill of Rights
4. Jail time - restitution - contact restrictions - drug testing - searches and seizures - employment verification - and counseling can be terms of what?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Formal Probation
Parens Patriae
Misdemeanor
5. The three federal courts are known as what?
1382
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Lower Courts
90 Million
6. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
None
Punishment without trial
39
7. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?
Statue of Winchester
Intermediate Courts
Nolo Contendre
Crime Control - Due Process
8. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?
Mary Ann Crouse
Body - Amendments
Federal Court System
Preliminary Hearing
9. What are the two types of defense attorneys?
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Possecomintatus
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
10. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?
Parens Patriae
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Stare Decisis
11. What are the five levels of force among agencies?
Evaluation
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Mala en Se
12. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
Ah Peen
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Discretion
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
13. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
Ah Peen
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
17 -500
F.B.I.
14. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
Pretrial Hearing
Tribal
Infraction
All volunteers
15. What Penal Code section states that the court may refer to probation for a report?
Courts
Patrick Colquhoun
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
16. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?
Right away
Crime Control - Due Process
Community Sensitive Programs
Misdemeanor
17. Who said - 'The police are the public and the public are the police'?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Sir Robert Peel
Mala Prohibita
18. What two things do military police entities possess?
Judicial System = Institutional System
Incapaciation
Sir Robert Peel
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
19. What is the point of a second preliminary hearing?
Loosely Coupled
Marbury versus Madison
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
17 -500
20. Which 1760s British tax law placed tax quotes on all paper based products imported into the colonies?
Sir Robert Peel
Infraction
Stamp Act of 1765
County
21. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?
Appeal
$1.7 million
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
22. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
Arrangement
Crime Control - Due Process
Ah Peen
Bench Trial
23. Who were the country's first president and vice president?
Worse
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
George Washington - John Adams
Statue of Winchester
24. Both felonies are misdemeanors are first filed as what?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Complaint
8th Amendment
Own Recognizance
25. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
County
Chief
Change
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
26. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?
Judicial System = Institutional System
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
All volunteers
State
27. In 1789 which London magistrate stressed the need for a 'centralized' law enforcement agency?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Felony
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Patrick Colquhoun
28. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?
830.1
1903
Very inactive
4th Amendment
29. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Mala Prohibita
Judicial - Executive
Jurisdiction
State
30. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?
6th Amendment
Discretion
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
1 and 8
31. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
Intermediate Courts
George Washington - John Adams
Preliminary Hearing
Lower Courts
32. Other then UCRS and NIBRS - what entities compile information about crime in the country?
Felony
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
County
Arrangement
33. Under English Common Law what was the general cut off age in distinguishing between those who could charged with felonies?
Patronage and Corruption
14
County
Secret Service
34. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
Loosely Coupled System
Due Process Phase
F.B.I.
F.B.I
35. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
U.S. Constitution
Own Recognizance
King John
Limited
36. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?
Aggravating - Mitigating
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Yes
6th Amendment
37. After the U.S. Constitution was ratified - what type of court system did the U.S. realize it needed to have?
Federal Court System
17 -500
Felony
Lexington - Concord
38. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Parens Patriae
Judicial System = Institutional System
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
39. What Latin term means great paper?
Magna Carta
Judicial Review
Complaint
Potential for Incarceration
40. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?
1899 Illinois
39
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
41. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
Presentence Court Report
830.1
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
42. Who is referred to as the father of probation?
Serpico
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
John Augustus
Probation Officer
43. What is another term for informal probation?
Article III of the Constitution
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Conditional Sentence
Special Police Force
44. What concept discusses 'an eye for an eye'?
1383
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Retribution
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
45. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?
17 -500
Right away
F.B.I.
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
46. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?
Pretrial Hearing
5th Amendment
Jurisdiction
London Metropolitan Police Act
47. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
$1.7 million
34
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Misdemeanor
48. What type of bodies do our current laws come from?
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Secret Service
Court Room Work Group
Judicial/Legislative
49. How is a jury panel selected?
Evaluation
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Makes deals and not go to trial
50. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?
Conditional Sentence
Superior Court
Tribal
Loosely Coupled System
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