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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
Limited
Stamp Act of 1765
Stars
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
2. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
Infraction
Preliminary Hearing
The Penal Code
Serpico
3. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?
Sworn - Non-sworn
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Conditional Sentence
King John
4. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
Discretion
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Lexington - Concord
Bench Trial
5. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?
Court Administrator
Appeal
George Washington - John Adams
The Family Model
6. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?
King Henry II
1899 Illinois
Court Administrator
Sworn - Non-sworn
7. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?
17 -500
Community Orientated Policing Era
Original Jurisdiction
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
8. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
Boston Massacre
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
1903
Loosely Coupled System
9. What is a local law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Chief
F.B.I.
Probation Officer
King Henry II
10. What is the Latin term that means evil or bad in itself?
Indeterminate Sentencing
Mala en Se
State Supreme Court
State
11. Negative political influence and corruption impacting 19th century U.S. police agencies was called what?
Incorrigibles
Patronage
Lexington - Concord
Sir Robert Peel
12. What is the main criteria which determines whether a mater goes to a federal or state court?
Limited
Right away
Sheriff or Shireeve
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
13. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Article III of the Constitution
U.S. Federal District Courts
Discretion
14. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
Discretion
U.S. Constitution
Sheriff
39
15. What was the original staffing of the U.S. Supreme Court?
Parens Patriae
Preliminary Hearing
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Preliminary Hearing
16. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?
Tribal
F.B.I
Original Jurisdiction
State/Local Court System
17. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?
State/Local Court System
Worse
Constitutional Law
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
18. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
State
1382
F.B.I
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
19. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
90 Million
Future laws not passed yet
Assistant District Attorneys
County
20. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
John Augustus
F.B.I.
Ah Peen
21. In which two locations did the actual shooting war begin between British soldiers and Colonial militia men?
Bill of Rights
1382
Lexington - Concord
George Washington - John Adams
22. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
Nolo Contendre
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Limited
85%
23. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
Potential for Incarceration
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Statue of Winchester
Trials
24. What law enforcement agency maintains the largest training academy in the U.S.?
Possecomintatus
F.B.I.
Superior Court
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
25. The average local law enforcement agency will often employ how many officers and serve what size population?
50 - 25000
County
Intermediate Courts
Presentence Court Report
26. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
Trials
Appeals
830.1
Preliminary Hearing
27. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
John Marshall
Judicial System = Institutional System
Presentence Court Report
Indeterminate Sentencing
28. What Penal Code section states that the court shall refer to probation for a report?
F.B.I.
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Secret Service
1203(b)(1) - Felony
29. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
Worse
17 -500
Probation Officer
6th Amendment
30. What 1770 shooting incident heightened tensions between Boston colonists and newly arrived British soldiers?
Boston Massacre
Felony
Sir Robert Peel
Petition
31. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
Court Administrator
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Lexington - Concord
State
32. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
Evidence
King Henry II
Vigilantes
Petition
33. What concepts attempts to protect society by isolating others?
Generalists
14
Incapaciation
Loosely Coupled System
34. What was the name of the article which encouraged law enforcement not just to focus on crime - but the social factors of crime?
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
14th Amendment
Broken Windows
Due Process
35. What type of bodies do our current laws come from?
U.S. Marshall's
All volunteers
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Judicial/Legislative
36. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Discretion
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Special Police Force
37. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
Continue to another date
Original Jurisdiction
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
38. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
Crime Control - Due Process
Probation Officer
Local level
Due Process
39. What are the two main functions of criminal courts?
40. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
Generalists
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Evaluation
1382
41. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
Attorney General
Nolo Contendre
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Probation Officer
42. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?
Sir Robert Peel
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Sheriff
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
43. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
Stare Decisis
Boston Massacre
U.S. Court of Appeals
Preliminary Hearing
44. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?
Presentence Court Report
Community Sensitive Programs
14th Amendment
National Crime Information Center
45. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Bench Trial
Tribal
46. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Discretion
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
47. What do the majority of cases going into the U.S. District Court involve?
Original Jurisdiction
Arrangement
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Felony
48. In 1829 which English government employee pushed a new law which followed the ideas of Patrick Colquhoun?
Conditional Sentence
Sir Robert Peel
U.S. Court of Appeals
Yes
49. What does a preliminary hearing determine?
Tribal
Tribal
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
First Continental Congress
50. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?
Presentence Court Report
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
All volunteers