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Criminal Justice 101

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






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






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






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






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






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






7. What does an aggravating factor make the report?






8. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?






9. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?






10. What Latin term means great paper?






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






12. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?






13. Is the Federal or State court system older?






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






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






16. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?






17. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. What is meant by inferior courts?






26. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?






27. What crimes is the death penalty used for?






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






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






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






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

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32. What does O.R. mean?






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






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






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






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






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






38. What does a mitigating factor make the report?






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






40. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?






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






42. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?






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






44. What are the two ancient codes that contributed to our current legal system?






45. The average local law enforcement agency will often employ how many officers and serve what size population?






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






47. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?






48. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?






49. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?






50. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?