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Criminal Justice 101
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1. If you plea guilty at a misdemeanor arraignment - when can a judge sentence you?
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
14
Right away
Sworn - Non-sworn
2. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?
Dual System
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
1382
Trial
3. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
U.S. Constitution
Chief
Adversarial System
Preliminary Hearing
4. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1987 as a supplement to UCRS?
Crime Control Due Process
Marbury versus Madison
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
17
5. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Very inactive
Attorney General
Adversarial System
6. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Sworn - Non-sworn
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Vigilantes
7. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Miranda versus Arizona
State
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
8. What does O.R. mean?
Punishment without trial
Federal Court System
17 -500
Own Recognizance
9. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
Judiciary Act
Sworn - Non-sworn
Bill of Rights
Discretion
10. What are the oldest law enforcement agencies in the country?
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11. In what year and state was the country's first dedicated juvenile justice system and court legally established?
Possecomintatus
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
1899 Illinois
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
12. Where does a felony case begin?
5th Amendment
Arrangement
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
13. What is discovery?
Conditional Sentence
Patronage
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Evidence
14. What does a preliminary hearing determine?
First Continental Congress
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Original Jurisdiction
Loosely Coupled System
15. What two things do military police entities possess?
Yes
Loosely Coupled
Judicial System = Institutional System
1 and 8
16. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
4th Amendment
Discretion
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
1903
17. How long is a federal judge's term of office for?
Superior Court
Life
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Sheriff or Shireeve
18. What concept attempts to alter future behaviors through threats of punishment and consequences?
Deterrence
Trial
Adversarial System
Conditional Sentence
19. The power of the U.S. Supreme Court to interpret what the constitution says and means - via case law - is known as what?
All volunteers
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Judicial Review
5th Amendment
20. What are the four Cs of the criminal justice system?
King Chamberlain's Court
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Retribution
Sir Robert Peel
21. Who were the country's first president and vice president?
1383
George Washington - John Adams
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
State Supreme Court
22. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?
Sworn - Non-sworn
Felony
Preliminary Hearing
1899 Illinois
23. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
Right away
5th Amendment
Trials
830.1
24. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?
Arrangement
Loosely Coupled
Preliminary Hearing
Mary Ann Crouse
25. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?
Hoover
Discretion
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Lexington - Concord
26. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
17
Original Jurisdiction
Probation Officer
27. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
Preliminary Hearing
U.S. Federal District Courts
Stars
Nolo Contendre
28. What Latin term means great paper?
830.1
Bench Trial
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Magna Carta
29. What Penal Code section states that the court may refer to probation for a report?
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
8th Amendment
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Discretion
30. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?
Arrangement
Adversarial System
Own Recognizance
4th Amendment
31. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?
Precedent
Preliminary Hearing
Retribution
The Penal Code
32. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?
Retribution
Pretrial Hearing
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
County
33. What is the point of a second preliminary hearing?
County
Lexington - Concord
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Right away
34. What is a county law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Nolo Contendre
Mala en Se
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Sheriff
35. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
Nolo Contendre
Trial
Local level
State
36. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Sheriff or Shireeve
Pendelton Act
37. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
Probation Officer
Boston Massacre
Incorrigibles
14
38. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?
King Chamberlain's Court
Crime Control Due Process
U.S. Postal Inspectors
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
39. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
Makes deals and not go to trial
Judiciary Act
Miranda versus Arizona
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
40. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?
Patronage and Corruption
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Crime Control - Due Process
1203(b)(1) - Felony
41. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
Better
1 and 8
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Potential for Incarceration
42. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?
Local level
Very inactive
1977 Dixon Bill
Evaluation
43. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?
Miranda versus Arizona
King Henry II
Due Process Phase
All volunteers
44. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?
90%
Attorney General
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
1899 Illinois
45. What major 1803 U.S. Supreme Court case established that the court would begin to interpret what the constitution was all about?
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
King Henry II
Marbury versus Madison
830.1
46. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Patronage
Pendelton Act
Judicial - Executive
Broken Windows
47. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Marbury versus Madison
Local level
48. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?
George Washington - John Adams
Sheriff or Shireeve
Appeals
14th Amendment
49. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
Dual System
Assistant District Attorneys
Limited
Judicial System = Institutional System
50. The Federal Court system was created through what?
Preliminary Hearing
Statue of Winchester
Judiciary Act
Complaint
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