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Criminal Justice 101

Subject : law
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1. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?






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






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






4. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?






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






6. What are the two types of defense attorneys?






7. What was the name of the article which encouraged law enforcement not just to focus on crime - but the social factors of crime?






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






9. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?






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






11. What 1838 Ohio State Supreme Court Case established the concept of Parens Patriae and no need for due process in juvenile matters?






12. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?






13. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?






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






15. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?






16. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?






17. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?






18. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?






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






20. The three federal courts are known as what?






21. Negative political influence and corruption impacting 19th century U.S. police agencies was called what?






22. What is another term for informal probation?






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






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






25. What are the five levels of force among agencies?






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






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






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






29. What is the main criteria which determines whether a mater goes to a federal or state court?






30. What was the name of the group of people who went to Philadelphia in 1774 in order to discuss their unhappiness with Britain and its taxes?






31. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?






32. What are the two main functions of criminal courts?

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33. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?






34. When pleading guilty at a felony arrangement - what does the judge generally do for sentencing?






35. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?






36. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?






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






38. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?






39. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?






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






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






42. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?






43. Where does a felony case begin?






44. What are the oldest law enforcement agencies in the country?

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45. What does O.R. mean?






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






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






48. What is the average budget of a local law enforcement agency?






49. What does a preliminary hearing determine?






50. What Latin term means great paper?