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Criminal Justice 101

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






2. Where does a felony case begin?






3. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?






4. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?






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






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






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






8. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?






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






10. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?






11. What are the four Cs of the criminal justice system?






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






13. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?






14. What does a preliminary hearing determine?






15. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?






16. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?






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






18. After the U.S. Constitution was ratified - what type of court system did the U.S. realize it needed to have?






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






20. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?






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






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






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






24. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?






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






26. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?






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






28. The Federal Court system was created through what?






29. What 1770 shooting incident heightened tensions between Boston colonists and newly arrived British soldiers?






30. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?






31. The Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program motivated police to try what new procedures?






32. What two things do military police entities possess?






33. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?






34. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?






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






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






37. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?






38. What Latin term means great paper?






39. What type of bodies do our current laws come from?






40. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?






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






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






43. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?






44. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?






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






46. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1987 as a supplement to UCRS?






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






48. What does O.R. mean?






49. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?






50. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?






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