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Criminal Justice 101

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1. What is discovery?






2. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?






3. In what year and state was the country's first dedicated juvenile justice system and court legally established?






4. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?






5. How long is a federal judge's term of office for?






6. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?






7. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?






8. Both felonies are misdemeanors are first filed as what?






9. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?






10. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?






11. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?






12. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?






13. What are the two types of defense attorneys?






14. What is a county law enforcement agency's head administrator?






15. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?






16. Other then UCRS and NIBRS - what entities compile information about crime in the country?






17. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?






18. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?






19. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?






20. In which two locations did the actual shooting war begin between British soldiers and Colonial militia men?






21. In 1789 which London magistrate stressed the need for a 'centralized' law enforcement agency?






22. What major 1803 U.S. Supreme Court case established that the court would begin to interpret what the constitution was all about?






23. What do bills of attainer relate to?






24. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?






25. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?






26. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?






27. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?






28. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?






29. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?






30. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?






31. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?






32. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?






33. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?






34. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?






35. The third federal inferior court of authority is known as what?






36. What does a judge order the probation department to write in order to find more about an individual before sentencing?






37. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?






38. What was name of the era which was distinguished by the Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program?






39. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?






40. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?






41. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?






42. What does an aggravating factor make the report?






43. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?






44. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?






45. What 1865 federal law enforcement agency was initially responsible for excessive counterfeiting following the civil war?






46. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?






47. What does N.C.I.C. stand for?






48. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?






49. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?






50. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?







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