SCCJA CUMULATIVE ACADEMY
STUDY GUIDE
What is a reactionary gap? - ANSWERS-6-8 Feet
What are the 4 ways a vulnerable adult victimized? - ANSWERS-1.
Caregiver Stress
2. Perpetrator Characteristics
3. Inter-generational/Trans-generational violence
4. Self Abuse/ Neglect
Who reads your reports? - ANSWERS-1. Your first
leader(Supervisor)
2. Follow up investigators
3. Attorneys
4. Judges
5. Responding officers (Backup)
6. Victims
7. Civil courts
8. Probation Officers.
9. Advocates
10. The Media
,What is communication? - ANSWERS-The exchange of information
or the technique of expressing ideas effectively
What is a report? - ANSWERS-any written or electronic
communication on a departmental form.
What are the elements of a good report? - ANSWERS-1. Factual
2. Clear
3. complete
4. Concise
5. impartial
6. Correct word transition
7. Cardinal Rule (self-explanatory, establish the elements of the crime,
and be in chronological order
What are of the step to writing a good report? - ANSWERS-1.
Prewriting
2. Organizing
3. Revise for Clarity
4. write in "First Person"
5. Proofread
What are the three pages of a report? - ANSWERS-1. Incident
Report- page one
2. Supplementary Report -page two
,3. Supplemental incident Report-page three
What happened in 1776? - ANSWERS-Colonists declared their
independence from England
What happened in 1788? - ANSWERS-Constitution was ratified
What happened in 1791 - ANSWERS-The Bill of Rights was added to
the Constitution
What are the three parts of the Constitution? - ANSWERS-Preamble,
7 articles, 27 amendments
What branch of government do law enforcement fall into? -
ANSWERS-Executive
In 1829 Sir Robert Peel Draft nine principles, What are the basic of
the nine principle? - ANSWERS-1. Prevent crime and disorder
2. Dependent upon public approval
3. Willing cooperation of the public in voluntary observance of the
law
4. Necessity for the use of physical force and compulsion
5. impartial service to the law
6. Exercise of persuasion, advice and warning; minimum degree of
physical force which is necessary.
7. Police is the public and the public are the police
, 8. Usurp the powers of the judiciary
9. The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder
What is the 14th amendment? - ANSWERS-due process of law
What is needed for Supreme Court to hear a case? - ANSWERS-Writ
of Certiorari
What are crimes made up of? - ANSWERS-Elements or key points
that the state bears the burden of proving
Common Law - ANSWERS-Court decisions
Statutory Law - ANSWERS-Law passed by the U.S. Congress or state
legislatures
What is a preliminary hearing? - ANSWERS-"trial before the trial" at
which the judge decides whether there is enough evidence (Probable
Cause hearing)
How many people on a jury if it is Magistrate and Municipal Courts?
- ANSWERS-6
How many people on a jury if it is Circuit Courts? - ANSWERS-12
STUDY GUIDE
What is a reactionary gap? - ANSWERS-6-8 Feet
What are the 4 ways a vulnerable adult victimized? - ANSWERS-1.
Caregiver Stress
2. Perpetrator Characteristics
3. Inter-generational/Trans-generational violence
4. Self Abuse/ Neglect
Who reads your reports? - ANSWERS-1. Your first
leader(Supervisor)
2. Follow up investigators
3. Attorneys
4. Judges
5. Responding officers (Backup)
6. Victims
7. Civil courts
8. Probation Officers.
9. Advocates
10. The Media
,What is communication? - ANSWERS-The exchange of information
or the technique of expressing ideas effectively
What is a report? - ANSWERS-any written or electronic
communication on a departmental form.
What are the elements of a good report? - ANSWERS-1. Factual
2. Clear
3. complete
4. Concise
5. impartial
6. Correct word transition
7. Cardinal Rule (self-explanatory, establish the elements of the crime,
and be in chronological order
What are of the step to writing a good report? - ANSWERS-1.
Prewriting
2. Organizing
3. Revise for Clarity
4. write in "First Person"
5. Proofread
What are the three pages of a report? - ANSWERS-1. Incident
Report- page one
2. Supplementary Report -page two
,3. Supplemental incident Report-page three
What happened in 1776? - ANSWERS-Colonists declared their
independence from England
What happened in 1788? - ANSWERS-Constitution was ratified
What happened in 1791 - ANSWERS-The Bill of Rights was added to
the Constitution
What are the three parts of the Constitution? - ANSWERS-Preamble,
7 articles, 27 amendments
What branch of government do law enforcement fall into? -
ANSWERS-Executive
In 1829 Sir Robert Peel Draft nine principles, What are the basic of
the nine principle? - ANSWERS-1. Prevent crime and disorder
2. Dependent upon public approval
3. Willing cooperation of the public in voluntary observance of the
law
4. Necessity for the use of physical force and compulsion
5. impartial service to the law
6. Exercise of persuasion, advice and warning; minimum degree of
physical force which is necessary.
7. Police is the public and the public are the police
, 8. Usurp the powers of the judiciary
9. The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder
What is the 14th amendment? - ANSWERS-due process of law
What is needed for Supreme Court to hear a case? - ANSWERS-Writ
of Certiorari
What are crimes made up of? - ANSWERS-Elements or key points
that the state bears the burden of proving
Common Law - ANSWERS-Court decisions
Statutory Law - ANSWERS-Law passed by the U.S. Congress or state
legislatures
What is a preliminary hearing? - ANSWERS-"trial before the trial" at
which the judge decides whether there is enough evidence (Probable
Cause hearing)
How many people on a jury if it is Magistrate and Municipal Courts?
- ANSWERS-6
How many people on a jury if it is Circuit Courts? - ANSWERS-12
