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Criminal Justice 101

Subject : law
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?






2. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?






3. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?






4. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?






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






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






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






8. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?






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






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






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






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






13. If you plea guilty at a misdemeanor arraignment - when can a judge sentence you?






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






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






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






17. What does an aggravating factor make the report?






18. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1930?






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






20. Local California courts which handle misdemeanors - minor civil matters - and traffic violations are called what?






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






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






23. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?






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






25. What is the State Court System's court of last resort?






26. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?






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






28. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?






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






30. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?






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






32. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?






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






34. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?






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






36. What do the majority of cases going into the U.S. District Court involve?






37. What were minors who disobeyed orders of the Kings Chancery Court system called?






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






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






40. 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?






41. What do bills of attainer relate to?






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






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






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






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






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






47. What two things do military police entities possess?






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






49. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?






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