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Criminal Justice Exam 1 Chapters 1-3The Criminal Justice System - correct answer ✔✔The Law enforcement, court and the correctional
agencies that work together to effect the apprehension, prosecution and control of criminal offenders.
Charged with maintaining order, enforcing the law, identifying transgressors, bringing justice and treating
criminal behavior. MAINTAINS ORDER AND PROTECTS THE FABRIC OF SOCIETY
Criminal Justice Process - correct answer ✔✔Starts at moment of investigation to arrest to criminal's
release into society. Various stages a criminal must pass through
How was the CJ system evolved over time? - correct answer ✔✔It started with a surge of violent activity
such as the wild west and east coast gangs. The sense of lawlessness and the gangs & WW caused CJ
agencies to form. First started in 1829, the London Metropolitan Police.
Where was the first three CJ agencies/systems in America? - correct answer ✔✔Boston (1838), New York
(1844) and Philadelphia (1854).
When prisons were created, what did it do? - correct answer ✔✔It was an alternative to physical
correctional treatment, and it replaced capital punishment.
What is the Chicago Crime Commission and what did it do? - correct answer ✔✔It got the CJ system's
work recognized and it kept track of local CJ agencies' activities.
What was the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement? - correct answer
✔✔President Hoover signed this into law, it is otherwise known as Wickersham commission. Detailed
analysis showed that there was no formal body of laws for CJ agencies and that there was too many
policies for each person to remember.
What is the American Bar Foundation and what does it do? - correct answer ✔✔A series of detailed
reports found that some CJ procedures was hidden to the public and that there was a lot of personal
decision being made in decision making (whether or not to investigation something, when to arrest
someone, whether to go to trial or to avoid court and deal out a plea bargain).
, What are the Safe Streets and Crime control acts, what do they do? - correct answer ✔✔Gave Federal
funds to restructure CJ systems in local and state governments. Funded the National Institute of Law
Enforcement Assistance Administration.
What is the CJ system a form of for society? - correct answer ✔✔It is societies' form of social control of a
person's behavior.
Contemporary CJ Agencies are a (political, social or economic) thing? - correct answer ✔✔political
entities whose structure is in all 3 branches of government
What are the three main components of CJ system? - correct answer ✔✔Law enforcement agencies,
Court agencies, and correctional agencies
Formal CJ - True or false, All cases are put through the formal justice system. - correct answer ✔✔False,
very few cases are put through the entire formal justice system.
The 15 parts of the CJ Formal System - correct answer ✔✔1) Initial Contact, 2) Investigation, 3) Arrest, 4)
Custody, 5) Charging, 6) Preliminary hearings/grand jury, 7) Arraignment, 8) Bail/Detention, 9) Plea
Bargaining, 10) Trial, 11) Sentencing, 12) Appeal, 13) Correctional Treatment, 14) Release, 15) Post
Release
1) Initial Contact - correct answer ✔✔normally a result of police action, police have been tipped off
about a situation, someone rats out their partners to receive more lenient sentences, cops are following
orders by mayor or other high-ranking official, or person walks into a station and confesses to a crime.
2) Investigation - correct answer ✔✔Police gather enough evidence to identify subject and to support a
legal arrest. This process may take a few minutes or a few years.
3) Arrest - correct answer ✔✔Arrests are considered legal when, officer has probable cause, the officer
depraves the suspect of their freedom, the suspect believes they are now in custody of police and has
lost all liberty. Note: To arrest for a misdemeanor, police must have witnessed the crime personally
(Called the in presence requirement)
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