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Criminal Justice 101

Subject : law
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?






2. Who said - 'The police are the public and the public are the police'?






3. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?






4. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?






5. What is a local law enforcement agency's head administrator?






6. What major 1829 English law created a centralized urban police force in London?






7. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?






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






9. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?






10. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?






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






12. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?






13. What was the original staffing of the U.S. Supreme Court?






14. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?






15. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?






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






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






18. Who is in charge of staffing - calender - budget - and other material needs of the court room?






19. What concept discusses 'an eye for an eye'?






20. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?






21. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?






22. Which of the five major phases in the criminal justice system since 1965 produced major case law?






23. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?






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






25. Who runs the N.C.I.C.?






26. What Latin term means - 'father or parent of the country?'






27. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?






28. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?






29. The Federal Court system was created through what?






30. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?






31. What does a mitigating factor make the report?






32. What west coast supreme court case in 1876 further established the philosophy of Parens Patriae and no due process for juveniles?






33. What is the point of a second preliminary hearing?






34. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?






35. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?






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






37. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?






38. What does ex-post facto law relate to?






39. What is another term for informal probation?






40. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?






41. During the Revolutionary War what major document helped to guide the colonies in fighting their war against Britain?






42. What concepts attempts to protect society by isolating others?






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






44. What is the Latin term that means evil or bad in itself?






45. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?






46. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?






47. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?






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






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






50. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?