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Criminal Justice 101

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1. What does a mitigating factor make the report?






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






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






4. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?






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






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






7. The B.I.A. and the F.B.I. often provide support and assistance to what level of law enforcement agencies?






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






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






10. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?






11. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?






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






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






14. Who is referred to as the father of probation?






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






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






17. What 1883 federal law stressed the need for a civil service system based upon merit?






18. Under English Common Law what was the general cut off age in distinguishing between those who could charged with felonies?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?






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






30. What English Common Law court system could arguably be seen as the world's first dedicated juvenile court?

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






32. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?






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






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






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






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






37. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?






38. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?






39. How many cases go to the local court level each year?






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






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






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






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






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






45. The Federal Court system was created through what?






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






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






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






49. What is another term for informal probation?






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







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