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Criminal Justice 101

Subject : law
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1. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?






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






3. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?






4. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?






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






6. What does O.R. mean?






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






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






9. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?






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






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






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






13. What legal model first attempted the concept of rehabilitation and resocialization?






14. Where does a felony case begin?






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. What concept attempts to alter future behaviors through threats of punishment and consequences?






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






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






24. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?






25. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?






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






27. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?






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






29. What does a preliminary hearing determine?






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






31. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?






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






33. Does a county law enforcement agency head administrator generally require law enforcement experience?






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






35. In 1789 which London magistrate stressed the need for a 'centralized' law enforcement agency?






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






37. During the Revolutionary War what major document helped to guide the colonies in fighting their war against Britain?






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






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






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






41. In Orange County - what type of prosecuting attorneys handle the day to day issues in the court room?






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






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






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






45. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?






46. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?






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






48. Is the Federal or State court system older?






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






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